In 1953, the Central Intelligence Agency created a rumor of an assassination attempt in Guatemala to run the corrupt government out of the country. ... The Central Intelligence Agency was the agency most involved. ... It states: During fiscal year 1985, no further funds available to the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of Defense, or any other agency or entity of the United States involved intelligence activities may be obligated or expended for the purpose or which would have the effect of supporting directly or indirectly, military or para-military operations in Nicaragua by an...

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According to Thomas Robinson, author of The Sino-Soviet Border Dispute: Background, Development, and the March 1969 Clashes, CIA Director Richard Helms told the Associated Press in late summer of 1969 that "Moscow had been approaching foreign governments to inquire about their reactions to a potential Soviet preemptive strike (p. 1187). ... In 1971, an interesting piece of intelligence surfaced. ... Numerous military, political, and intelligence leaders in the west expressed their suspicions on the validity of the tense relations between Moscow and Beijing. ... The evidence for Reisel...

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The dramatic crisis was also characterized by the fact that it was primarily played out at the White House and the Kremlin level with relatively little input from the respective bureaucracies typically involved in the foreign policy process" (The Cuban Missile Crisis). ... Establishment of numerous missile locations originated in the summer, however U.S. intelligence exposed indication of a general Soviet arms accumulation on Cuba, comprising Soviet IL–28 bombers, for the duration of repetitive surveillance expeditions, and on September 4, 1962, President Kennedy dispensed a public ...

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