Thursday, August 06, 2009
History Counts 12:30 pm Thursday August 6
Overthrowing Governments 101
Have you ever wondered how the CIA overthrows foreign
governments? We show how it s done by examining in
detail the CIA orchestrated coups in Iran 1953,
Guatemala 1954, and Chile 1973.
Our guest Stephen Kinzer, a former New York Times bureau
chief, is the author of Overthrow, All the Shah s Men,
an American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror and
Bitter Fruit: the Untold Story of the American Coup in
Guatemala.
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