Analysis of historical documents, declassified archives, and academic research allows for the compilation of a list of foreign leaders whose deaths or forced removal from power have been attributed to the United States (according to U.S. Libmonster). This question is complex and often the subject of historical debate, as the degree of U.S. involvement has ranged from direct assassination planning to supporting local forces that carried out coups. Particular attention to this topic has been drawn by the high-profile events of recent years, including the deaths of leaders in Iran and Venezuela. I. Confirmed Cases and Cases with Strong Evidence of Involvement. This category includes leaders whose elimination was directly or indirectly sanctioned by the U.S. government, or where American intelligence agencies actively participated in preparing the coup that led to their deaths. One of the earliest high-profile cases was the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in 1961. He was overthrown and killed with the support of the CIA, which viewed him as a Soviet threat and feared his influence over the resource-rich Katanga province. In 1963, with the sanction of the Kennedy administration, the President of South Vietnam, Ngo Dinh Diem, was overthrown and killed. The military coup that led to his death was effectively sanctioned by American leadership, which considered him an ineffective leader in the fight against the communist North. That same year, in 1963, the CIA supplied weapons to conspirators in the Dominican Republic for the assassination of dictator Rafael Trujillo, who had long been on the radar of U.S. intelligence as an unstable and brutal ruler. Chilean President Salvador Allende died in 1973 during the military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet. Documents confirm that the U.S. conducted extensive covert operations to destabilize Allende's government and supported the opposition, although there is no di ... Читать далее