By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is not backing away from his comments in 1974 that the CIA is a “dangerous institution” that has supported “fascist dictatorships,” the Boston Globe reports.
But Sanders said at a CNN town hall in South Carolina that his arguments were “40 years ago” and that the CIA plays “an important role.”
Still, he said the agency has “done things which they should not have done on behalf of the United States government.’’
Sanders said that the CIA backed the overthrow of a democratically elected prime minister in 1953, leading to “the Iranian Revolution, and we are where we are today.”
The presidential candidate also pointed to the overthrow of another democratically elected leader, Salvadore Allende in Chile.
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