How about supporting Khmer Rouge from 1980?
***** ...By January, 1980, the United States had begun secretly funding Pol Pot. The extent of this support - Dollars 85 million from 1980 to 1986 - was revealed six years later in correspondence between congressional lawyer Jonathan Winer, counsel to a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and the Vietnam Veterans of America. When copies of Winer's letter were circulated the Reagan Administration was furious. Then, without adequately explaining why, Winer repudiated the statistics, while not disputing that they had come from the Congressional Research Service. However, in a second letter to Professor Noam Chomsky, Winer made the same point which, he told me, was 'absolutely correct.' Here was clear evidence that Pol Pot's secret backer was Washington.
As a cover for its secret war against Cambodia, Washington set up the Kampuchean Emergency Group, known at KEG, in the American embassy in Bangkok and on the border. KEG's job was to 'monitor' the distribution of Western humanitarian supplies sent to the refugee camps in Thailand and to ensure that they were delivered direct to Khmer Rouge bases.
Two senior American relief workers, Linda Mason and Roger Brown, later wrote, 'The US Government insisted that the Khmer Rouge be fed .. the US preferred that the Khmer Rouge operation benefit from the credibility of an internationally known relief operation.' Under US pressure, the World Food Programme handed over Dollars 12 million worth of food to the Thai Army to pass on to the Khmer Rouge. '20,000 to 40,000 Pol Pot guerrillas benefited,' according to former Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke.
Describing itself as a 'humanitarian organisation,' KEG was run by Colonel Michael Eiland, the Special Forces operation officer responsible for the illegal bombing of Cambodia in 1969. Eiland's new 'humanitarian' duties led directly to his appointment as Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) Chief in charge of the South-East Asia region, one of the most important jobs in American espionage.
In November, 1980 Dr Ray Cline, a former deputy director of the CIA and a close adviser of President Reagan, made a secret visit to a Khmer Rouge base camp inside Cambodia. Within a year, acccording to reliable Washington sources, 50 CIA agents were running America's Cambodia operation from Thailand. However, a number of governments were becoming decidedly uneasy about the charade of the continued United Nation as recognition of Pol Pot. This was dramatically demonstrated when a colleague of mine, Nicholas Claxton, entered a bar at the UN in New York with Thaoun Prasith, Pol Pot's representative and himself complicit in mass murder. Within minutes the bar had emptied....
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Have you concluded that the US government is malevolent? -- Yoshie
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