1/11/2017 4:01 PM
Greetings;
"The True Flag" - Author of this book Stephen Kinzer - the following is from his book.
Among many CIA operations to influence elections in the Middle East, one in 1975 helped elect a prime minister of Israel whose policies the United States favored. In Central America, intervening in elections is an even older habit.
The CIA recruited a pro-American economist to run for president of Nicaragua in 1984, and when it became clear that he would lose, pulled him out of the race amid laments about about the lack of electoral freedom in Nicaragua. In 2009, the United States encouraged a military coup in which the elected president of Honduras was deposed, and then endorsed a new election in which he was not allowed to run.
The most recent U.S. intervention in foreign politics came in Ukraine. In 2014, as protesters gathered there in an effort to over-through their elected government, a senior State Department official appeared in the crowd to encourage their revolt. She was caught telling an aide which Ukrainian politician was "the guy" Americans had chosen to be Ukraine's next leader, and asserting that the United States would "midwife this thing." A few weeks later our "guy" became prime minister- setting off a crisis that ended with Russian military intervention.
Condemning interference in foreign elections is eminently reasonable.The disingenuous howls of anti-Russian rage now echoing through Washington, however, ignore much history.
Capt. Kirk
Retired Alien
Needham Golf Club
Needham, MA