The CIA intervened in Western European politics to block Moscow-aligned communists from governing
Evidence
Meanwhile, Latin America was safely under the indirect control of the radically anticommunist United States government (with the CIA carrying out a military coup in Guatemala in 1954 and Washington offering tacit support for another a decade later in Brazil, rather than tolerate moderate liberal reformists in the hemisphere), but an unlikely 1959 revolution in Cuba had electrified leftists worldwide. In Western Europe, official Communist parties aligned with Moscow played major roles in national politics and intellectual life, coming close enough to forming governments after World War II that the CIA chose to intervene behind the scenes. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 88
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the standing pattern of CIA coups in Guatemala 1954 and the later broader literature on CIA covert intervention in European elections, e.g. in Italy and France. — connects to: The CIA overthrew elected governments to protect corporate and ideological interests. — Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies, 77; Allied authorities created expellee organizations as anti-communist tools — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 82; The CIA deliberately cultivated Islamist groups as Cold War counterweights to Nasserism — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 389 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- The CIA overthrew elected governments to protect corporate and ideological interests.
#expands(0.82) — Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies, 77 - The CIA deliberately cultivated Islamist groups as Cold War counterweights to Nasserism
#expands(0.78) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 389 - Allied authorities created expellee organizations as anti-communist tools
#corroborates(0.75) — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 82 - Postwar US power led Togliatti to rule out Western European socialist revolution.
#complicates(0.72) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 104