The CIA financed General Li Mi’s attack on China in 1951.

Evidence

A Chinese Nationalist Army has struck 65 miles into Red China from its refugee base in Burma and seized a 100-mile-long frontier strip in Yunnan Province,” the Associated Press reported on July 28, 1951, without disclosing that the CIA had ordered and financed the attack. — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 984

Categorization

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