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Revealed: CIA Knew of Venezuela Coup in 2002

HeadlineNov 24, 2004

Newly released CIA documents show the Bush administration knew about the plot to overthrow Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez weeks the 2002 military coup but did nothing to stop it. This according to a report in Newsday. Until now the Bush administration has claimed it had no role in the failed coup and didn’t know one was being planned. Peter Kornbluh of the National Security Archives said QUOTE “This is substantive evidence that the CIA knew in advance about the coup, and it is clear that this intelligence was distributed to dozens of members of the Bush administration, giving them knowledge of coup plotting.”

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