The CIA built Contra bases that overwhelmed Honduran provinces

Evidence

Within a year of La Tripartita’s creation, the CIA helped set up six Contra bases in Honduras and started landing cargo planes filled with weapons. CIA operatives, U.S. and Argentine military advisers, Israelis, and Chileans began training the rebels. (According to former Army Special Forces operative William Meara, he once heard a U.S. Special Forces team refer to their students as “LBGs”—little brown guys.) The Argentines brought the “Argentine method” of “disappearing,” torturing, and killing political opponents. The Contra force was soon so large it virtually took over whole Honduran provinces near the Nicaraguan border. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 287

Categorization

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