Syria: 1949
In Spring 1949, the elected government of Syria is overthrown and ‘according to former CIA agent Miles Copeland, …he and another CIA officer who was Assistant Military Attaché at the U.S. embassy in Damascus engineered the March 1949 coup in which Chief of Staff Husni Zaim overthrew President Shukn al - Quwatli.’ This resulted in the establishment of a dictatorship under Colonel Za’im.
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