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THE CIA AGAINST LATIN AMERICAREASON FOR BEINGIn 1947, one of the most nefarious rules of the United States, Harry S.Truman, author of the atomic genocide at Hiroshima and Nagasaki,decreed the creation of the Central Intelligence Agency -CIA- , as themain instrument of espionage and political interventionism on a globalscale, to consolidate the role of the United States as a great world powerderived from World War Two and rival the other super power derivedfrom the same historical circumstance: the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics(USSR), better known as the Soviet Union.The CIA immediately got to work. Its two most notable actions duringits first years where the overthrow in 1953 of the prime minister of Iran,Mohamed Mossadeg, who had nationalized multinational oil companies,and in 1954 the invasion of Guatemala by means of a mercenary army tooverthrow the nationalist government of Colonel Jacobo Arbenz, whohad nationalized estates formerly belonging to the all powerful UnitedFruit. Since then, the CIA shed its bloody power over the whole world,frequently at the edge or over the formal political power of the UnitedStates, in collusion with the military (the Pentagon) under the diplomaticcover of the US embassies. That is what happened in the Republic ofEcuador, which calls upon a key year: 1960, and an extraordinary name:Philip Agee.The outstanding thing about that year is the triumph of the CubanRevolution through the armed insurgence lead by Fidel Castro, immediatelyfollowed by a proliferation of guerrillas in Central and South Amer-9