Video clip shows ex-CIA chief accepted US role in overthrowing elected govts

The spokesperson of the Information Department of the Chinese foreign ministry, Lijian Zhao has shared a video clip of an interview of the ex-CIA chief in Latin America, Duane Clarridge, accepting the role of the US in overthrowing elected governments.

Lijian Zhao captioned it, “Interview to Duane Clarridge, former #CIA Chief in #LatinAmerica. Accordingly, the US is gonna overthrow any democratically elected government whenever it serves their ‘national security interest’ and ‘the world should just get used to it’. Right?”

“Accordingly, the US is gonna overthrow any democratically elected government whenever it serves their ‘national security interest’ and ‘the world should just get used to it’. Right?”

Interview to Duane Clarridge, former #CIA Chief in #LatinAmerica
Accordingly, the US is gonna overthrow any democratically elected government whenever it serves their ‘national security interest’ and ‘the world should just get used to it’. Right? pic.twitter.com/ue7GKy8VP9

— Lijian Zhao 赵立坚 (@zlj517) March 30, 2022

According to an NYT article published in 2011, Duane R. Clarridge had also fielded operatives in the mountains of Pakistan and the desert badlands of Afghanistan.

It read that Mr Clarridge, who was indicted on charges of lying to Congress in the Iran-contra scandal and later pardoned, is described by those who have worked with him as driven by the conviction that Washington is bloated with bureaucrats and lawyers who impede American troops in fighting adversaries and that leaders are overly reliant on mercurial allies.

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“For all of the can-you-top-this qualities to Mr. Clarridge’s operation, it is a startling demonstration of how private citizens can exploit the chaos of combat zones and rivalries inside the American government to carry out their own agenda.”

“It also shows how the outsourcing of military and intelligence operations has spawned legally murky clandestine operations that can be at cross-purposes with America’s foreign policy goals.”

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“From his days running secret wars for the C.I.A. in Central America to his consulting work in the 1990s on a plan to insert Special Operations troops in Iraq to oust Saddam Hussein, Mr. Clarridge has been an unflinching cheerleader for American intervention overseas.”

“Typical of his pugnacious style are his comments, provided in a 2008 interview for a documentary now on YouTube, defending many of the C.I.A.’s most notorious operations, including undermining the Chilean president Salvador Allende, before a coup ousted him 1973.”