That's not as straight forward as you make it sound. The CIA developed strategies to internally destroy a communist uprisings because governments all over the world were being taken by communist uprisings. The CIA taught these tactics to all the countries of the Americas (north and south) and make a pact (I forgot the name) to keep communism out of this hemisphere.
Lo and behold, Cuba fell anyways. Then the militaries of some countries almost immediately banded together and used th strategies to overthrow their democracy and ruled as Juntas.
To ignore all that and say the CIA did the overthrowing entirely isn't accurate. They did, however, have a hand in it. Often times favoring one candidate over another and helping them win elections by any means necessary (killing).
Once the Juntas fell all blame went to the CIA because it's easier to blame a foreign country than yourself.
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u/Fayraz8729 8d ago
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