CIA admits orchestrating Syrian Coup of March 1949. CIA agent Miles Copeland Jr in an interview with the BBC in 1967 admits that the CIA orchestrated and staged the 1949 Syrian Coup against President Shukri al-Kuwatli.

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[–]Insider 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

It's easier to list the foreign coups that the CIA WEREN'T a part of.

I'll start:

Brutus and 60 other senators backstabbing Julius Caesar.

[–]BanditMcFuklebuck 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

This guy is Stewart Copeland's father. Stewart was the drummer for the band The Police. There's always been sort of a rumor that that band got so popular so fast because it was backed by Western spooks to be an early-mid eighties anodyne alternative for youths just getting turned on to punk rock and all the rebellion that that genre could foment....I could see it....