Venezuelan Lawmakers Say Video is Evidence CIA is Plotting to Overthrow

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While the US embassy had no comment, Venezuela will turn this video over to US congress

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CARACAS, Venezuela - Lawmakers allied with President Hugo Chavez showed a videotape Wednesday which they claimed was evidence that the CIA was working with Venezuelan dissidents to overthrow the government.

The video, shown at a news conference at Congress, displayed three men speaking in Spanish about espionage, making contacts with an unspecified embassy, and avoiding detection. The identities of those on the tape were unknown.

Ruling party lawmaker Nicolas Maduro said the video showed U.S. secret agents training dissident military officers and municipal police in espionage and "terrorist" tactics. He said it was filmed in Venezuela in June.

In September, Chavez claimed that his government had a videotape showing a CIA officer training Venezuelan police and civilians in spying.


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