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Antiwar.com
May 2, 2017
The CIA's Rocky Stone took over as the Damascus station chief and initiated the plan for a coup. Syrian officers with whom Stone was working went to Syrian intelligence and turned in the CIA officers whose side they were supposedly on. The CIA agents were caught in the act, revealed and thrown out ofÃâà...
MetroJacksonville.com
October 18, 2016
We are lucky to have a guest editorial here on Metrojacksonville written from the perspective of one of the least heard viewpoints in the world, a Kurdish opinion. Dr. Koohzad is a Professor Emeritus of Middle Eastern Studies, and the author of a forthcoming book called, 'In Search of Kurdistan'. While hisÃâà...
Center for Research on Globalization
October 1, 2016
(CIA agent Rocky) Stone arrived in Damascus in April 1956 with $3 million in Syrian pounds to arm and incite Islamic militants and to bribe Syrian military officers and politicians to overthrow al-Kuwaiti's democratically elected secularist regime…. But all that CIA money failed to corrupt the Syrian militaryÃâà...
CounterPunch
September 15, 2016
(CIA agent Rocky) Stone arrived in Damascus in April 1956 with $3 million in Syrian pounds to arm and incite Islamic militants and to bribe Syrian military officers and politicians to overthrow al-Kuwaiti's democratically elected secularist regime…. But all that CIA money failed to corrupt the Syrian militaryÃâà...
POLITICO Magazine
February 22, 2016
Long before our 2003 occupation of Iraq triggered the Sunni uprising that has now morphed into the Islamic State, the CIA had nurtured violent ... That posture caused CIA Director Dulles to declare that “Syria is ripe for a coup” and send his two coup wizards, Kim Roosevelt and Rocky Stone, to Damascus.
NyackNewsAndViews
December 31, 2015
As iconic as the rocky stone facade of the original library building has become, another object made of stone that stands vigil near the entrance merits honorable mention. The 10-ton rock dedicated to Abraham Lincoln and the Union Army was dragged from the banks of the Hudson River by a team of 18Ãâà...
Foreign Policy
December 13, 2013
As the CIA and British intelligence agencies stoked discontent both inside the country and on its borders, CIA officer Kermit Roosevelt identified three top officials who would need to be assassinated to destabilize the government. The plot quickly went wrong. The CIA station chief in Damascus, Rocky StoneÃâà...
Houston Chronicle
September 6, 2013
From El Convento, start by walking down San Juan Street to take in the sweeping bay and rocky, stone-wall-enclosed beach through San Juan Gate, then .... I think of it as the Underbelly of San Juan, because chef Jose Enrique - a Santurce boy and CIA grad - trades in the kind of bold, elemental andÃâà...
