Lectures in History: CIA & Regime Change in the Cold War [View all]
This is a one-hour history lecture that was broadcast on C-Span3 yesterday.
I caught this at about the 8 minute mark while channel surfing. I'll admit that I can't often sit through an hour of C-Span. But this time I couldn't change the channel. This is a really interesting look at some more details behind some history that many of us here kind of know about but probably didn't get in our high school or college history classes. Ok, not very detailed, because he covers several events during the hour, but certainly more than I knew before.
http://www.c-span.org/History/Events/Lectures-in-History-CIA-Regime-Change-in-the-Cold-War/10737432851-1/
Colorado School of Mines professor Kenneth Osgood looks at the CIA and regime change in the Cold War. Professor Osgood discusses several examples of the CIAs involvement in covert regime change operations, including coups in Guatemala in 1954 and in Chile in 1973.
And actually, part of me is wondering how long this will be available on the C-Span website. Ya know?