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Disinformation Follies

By Joel Bleifuss

Back in the ’80s, the Reagan administration established an elaborate and illegal domestic propaganda apparatus known as the Office of Public Diplomacy for Latin America and the Caribbean. Its covert mission: Sell Congress, the media and the American people on the administration’s war against leftists in Central America. The stated objective: Convince Americans that the Contras are “fighters for freedom… return to article

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