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(2,169 posts)The United States has been involved in and assisted in the overthrow of foreign governments (more recently termed "regime change"
without the overt use of U.S. military force. Often, such operations are tasked to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
Regime change has been attempted through direct involvement of U.S. operatives, the funding and training of insurgency groups within these countries, anti-regime propaganda campaigns, coups d'état, and other activities usually conducted as operations by the CIA. These actions were sometimes accompanied by direct military action, such as following the U.S. invasion of Panama in 1989 and the U.S.-led military invasion of Iraq in 2003
Some argue that non-transparent United States government agencies working in secret sometimes mislead or do not fully implement the decisions of elected civilian leaders and that this has been an important component of many such operations,[1] Some contend that the U.S. has supported more coups against democracies that it perceived as communist, becoming communist, or pro-communist.
1 During the Cold War
1.1 Syria 1949
1.2 Iran 1953
1.3 Guatemala 1954
1.4 Tibet 195570s
1.5 Indonesia 1958
1.6 Cuba 1959
1.7 Iraq 196063
1.8 Democratic Republic of the Congo 196065
1.9 Dominican Republic 1961
1.10 South Vietnam 1963
1.11 Brazil 1964
1.12 Ghana 1966
1.13 Chile 197073
1.14 Argentina 1976
1.15 Afghanistan 197989
1.16 Turkey 1980
1.17 Poland 198089
1.18 Nicaragua 198190
1.18.1 Destablization through CIA assets
1.18.2 Arming the Contras
2 Since the end of the Cold War
2.1 Iraq 199296
2.2 Venezuela 2002
2.3 Iran 2005present
2.4 Syria 2012present
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert_United_States_foreign_regime_change_actions

