Those CIA exploits directly led to events like 9/11 and the associated Forever War in the Middle-East. If they were trying to protect Americans, they did a terrible job at it.
In reality they were trying to protect American capital, and trying to expand its global imperialist influence through violence. If American investments were at risk due to democracies electing left-wing leaders, they would happily stage a coup to put an investor-friendly religious extremist dictator in place - which of course couldn't possibly backfire...
In reality they were trying to protect American capital, and trying to expand its global imperialist influence through violence. If American investments were at risk due to democracies electing left-wing leaders, they would happily stage a coup to put an investor-friendly religious extremist dictator in place - which of course couldn't possibly backfire...