{"id":38819,"date":"2011-08-28T08:45:58","date_gmt":"2011-08-28T05:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=38819"},"modified":"2014-01-06T14:42:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T12:42:00","slug":"libya-a-classic-cia-destabilization-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2011\/08\/28\/libya-a-classic-cia-destabilization-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Libya: A classic CIA destabilization campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-38820\" title=\"Libya\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Libya.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"355\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Libya.jpg 355w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Libya-300x241.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 355px) 100vw, 355px\" \/>In the 1980s the CIA and Mossad led a campaign to destabilise Libya which mirrors what has just happened in 2011<em>:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><em>&#8220;The details of the plan were sketchy, but it seemed to be a classic CIA destabilization campaign. One element was a \u201cdisinformation\u201d program designed to embarrass Kaddafi and his government. Another was the creation of a \u201ccounter government\u201d to challenge his claim to national leadership. A third \u2014 potentially the most risky \u2014 was an escalating paramilitary campaign, probably by disaffected Libyan nationals, to blow up bridges, conduct small-scale guerrilla operations and demonstrate that Kaddafi was opposed by an indigenous political force.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><em>&#8211;Newsweek,<\/em> 3 August <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">1981<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>30 years ago&#8230; Sound familiar?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 1980s the CIA and Mossad led a campaign to destabilise Libya which mirrors what has just happened in 2011: &#8220;The details of the plan were sketchy, but it seemed to be a classic CIA destabilization campaign. One element was a \u201cdisinformation\u201d program designed to embarrass Kaddafi and his government. Another was the creation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":38820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[612,34],"tags":[957,905],"class_list":["post-38819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-libya","category-usa","tag-cia","tag-mossad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}