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 | | With the CIA usually in the lead, Washington spent hundreds of millions of dollars on book publishing, magazines, newspapers, radios, union organizing, women's and youth groups, scholarships, academic foundations, intellectual salons and societies, and direct cash payments to individuals (usually scholars, public intellectuals and journalists) who believed in ideas that America thought worthy of support. |
 | | But RFE, to put it mildly, was no Hi magazine; nor was its operation at all equivalent to surreptitiously handing bags of cash to pro-American journalists; nor was it aimed at a struggling new quasi-democracy, one patrolled by 100,000-plus U.S. troops. |
 | | It sounds like in each case the CIA is operating covertly abroad to advance the national interests of the US. |
| www.reason.com /hitandrun/2006/01/resultsbased_pr.shtml (687 words) |
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