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My guess is they are, but officially what they were doing there was off the books. One of those "if you get caught, we don't know you" type of things. Successful 99/100 times. This is that 1 unsuccessful time.

Your reasoning is flawed. 99/100 would be a layup, thus negating the need for the super duper secret stuff.

These guys were tied into the coup leader’s son and the whole thing was amateur hour. If the CIA was trying to stage a coup, they wouldn’t have sent those chuckleheads.

If…big IF (they aren’t)…they are CIA assets, then the goal was probably a “failed coup attempt.” There is value in those too.

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Posted by SlowFlowPro

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Posted on 5/20/24 at 7:49 am to Longhorn Actual

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These guys were tied into the coup leader’s son and the whole thing was amateur hour. If the CIA was trying to stage a coup, they wouldn’t have sent those chuckleheads.

If this was a CIA operation, it should make everyone feel better about how little they can do to us, due to incompetence.

My money is these are private contractors who took a bad contract and are paying the price.

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Posted by trinidadtiger

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Posted on 5/21/24 at 4:37 am to Longhorn Actual

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These guys were tied into the coup leader’s son and the whole thing was amateur hour. If the CIA was trying to stage a coup, they wouldn’t have sent those chuckleheads.

So if it was them it would have been done like....the bay of pigs or the two dozen failed attempts on Fidel.....

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