“Covert US Regime Change Actions” Removed from Wikipedia Page
The post below will give you an idea of what used to appear at Wikipedia (circa October 2013) under the heading "Covert United States Foreign Regime Change Actions."
Apparently, somebody felt the article was "too anti-American" and wasn't needed because readers could find similar information elsewhere. So, they basically destroyed it; deleting dozens of documented US interventions and over 150 references.
Fortunately, I'm in the habit of saving well-written reference material (it's a bit too easy to make things disappear on the internet). I've restored the full / far superior version of the article here: http://tree3.com/covert-united-states-regime-change-actions.htm
(I would post it in full on Steemit, but I keep getting an "exceeds-limit" error.)
Covert United States foreign regime change actions
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The United States has been involved in and assisted in the overthrow of foreign governments (more recently termed "regime change") without the overt use of U.S. military force. Often, such operations are tasked to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
Regime change has been attempted through direct involvement of U.S. operatives, the funding and training of insurgency groups within these countries, anti-regime propaganda campaigns, coups d'etat, and other activities usually conducted as operations by the CIA. The U.S. has also accomplished regime change by direct military action, such as following the U.S. invasion of Panama in 1989 and the U.S.-led military invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Some argue that non-transparent United States government agencies working in secret sometimes mislead or do not fully implement the decisions of elected civilian leaders and that this has been an important component of many such operations.[1] See Plausible deniability. Some contend that the U.S. has supported more coups against democracies that it perceived as communist, becoming communist, or pro-communist.[1]
The U.S. has also covertly supported opposition groups in various countries without necessarily attempting to overthrow the government. For example, the CIA funded anti-communist political parties in countries such as Italy and Chile; it also armed Kurdish rebels fighting the Ba'athist government ofIraq in the Second Kurdish-Iraqi War prior to the Algiers Agreement.
1 Prior to Cold War
1.1 Russia
2 During the Cold War
2.1 Communist states 1944 - 89
2.2 Syria 1949
2.3 Iran 1953
2.4 Guatemala 1954
2.5 Tibet 1955 - 70s
2.6 Indonesia 1958
2.7 Cuba 1959
2.8 Democratic Republic of the Congo 1960 - 65
2.9 Iraq 1960 - 63
2.10 Dominican Republic 1961
2.11 South Vietnam 1963
2.12 Brazil 1964
2.13 Ghana 1966
2.14 Chile 1970 - 73
2.15 Argentina 1976
2.16 Afghanistan 1979 - 89
2.17 Turkey 1980
2.18 Poland 1980 - 81
2.19 Nicaragua 1981 - 90
2.19.1 Destablization through CIA Assets
2.19.2 Arming the Contras
2.20 Cambodia 1980 - 95
2.21 Angola 1980s
2.22 Philippines 1986
3 Since the end of the Cold War
3.1 Iraq 1992 - 96
3.2 Afghanistan 2001
3.3 Venezuela 2002
3.4 Iraq 2002 - 03
3.5 Haiti 2004
3.6 Gaza Strip 2006 - present
3.7 Somalia 2006 - 07
3.8 Iran 2005 - present
3.9 Libya 2011
3.10 Syria 2012 - present
4 See also
5 References
6 Further reading
6.1 Books
7 External links
Look into the book "The Lies My Teacher Told Me". It documents a lot more "police actions" and things earlier than any I see listed here. Worth reading.