http://www.serendipity.li/cia/operation_phoenix.htm
Until outlawed in mid 70s CIA directly involved in assassination
attempts against Castro of Cuba, and Congolese leader Lumumba. CIA
also encouraged plots that resulted in assassination of Dominican
Republic President Trujillo, South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem
in 63 and Chilean Rene Schneider in 73. Most extensive assassination
op was Operation Phoenix conducted during latter part of VN war.
Twentieth Century Fund. (1992). The Need to Know: Covert Action and
American Democracy, 83.
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