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I am embarrassingly uneducated about the region. Please help me be slightly less ignorant.

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[–] Barx@hexbear.net 27 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The term is often used for all semis clandestine for operations of the US government. The CIA itself has had various open spinoffs that continue to operate. For example, the National Endowment for Democracy, to which a few interim government functionaries have ties, is a CIA cutout.

The backgrounds of those in the interim government body are... conspicuous. One must ask why those people and not others. Why no trade unions. Why those students. The military leaders responsible for the coup, leveraging the student and labor protests to do it, are of course proximally making these decisions, but their absurdly pro-American appointments mean taking orders from the US. Those connections would not be new.

It has the trappings of a color revolution, which is proper CIA territory. The title of the article uses this term.