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Any online reviews or rebuttals of Ambassador Bunker's book?
How CIA ousted Left govt in Kerala
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->If the biography of former US Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker is to be believed, the CIA had performed a clandestine operation to topple the first elected Communist government in the world.

The book also says that the CIA funded political demonstrations by the <b>Congress and other Opposition groups</b>.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->"It was essentially funding the anti-government agitation and create a cover so that the Central Government is forced to intervene. He (Bunker) also makes a very important revelation that S K Patil was the conduit for devolving the money,” said Minister of Finance, government of Kerala, Dr Thomas Issac.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Another former US ambassador, Partick Moynihan, has earlier revealed that Indira Gandhi received funds from the CIA but the Congress refutes this.
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