1964: CIA Arrives in Ottawa to Dictate Exactly What Canadian Diplomat Will Say in Meeting with North Vietnam
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In order to arrange what Seaborn was to say to Ho Chi Minh and Communist officials, William H. Sullivan of the State Departmen Chester Cooper of the CIA visited Ottawa on 27-29 May. Paul Martin' oirs do not mention Cooper, but they do insist that Martin forced Sull soften the message that Seaborn was to carry to Hanoi; Martin thoug original too threatening.

1972: US-Backed Dictator Stroessner Continues Genocide of Aché Indians in Paraguay
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US-backed Stroessner government's genocide: "Victims of recent manhunts" of indigenous Guayaki people photographed in Paraguay

Source: , Münzel, p. 47
2013: US Begins Training "Counter-Terrorism" Forces in Niger
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In January 2013, former colonial power France launched a military intervention, code-named Operation Serval, to push back and defeat the Islamists. At its peak, 4,500 French troops were fighting alongside West African forces, known as the African-led International Support Mission in Mali (AFISMA), later subsumed into a U.N.-mandated Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA). The AFISMA force, as detailed in an official U.S. Army Africa briefing on training missions obtained by TomDispatch, reads like a who’s who of American proxy forces in West Africa: Niger, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Togo, Senegal, Benin, Liberia, Chad, Nigeria, Gambia, Ghana, and Sierra Leone.          

Source: Nick Turse, American Proxy Wars in Africa
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