Exhibit 836

Innocence Abroad: The New World of Spyless Coups

Exhibit 836 · News column

Innocence Abroad: The New World of Spyless Coups

Column on overt political action replacing CIA covert action. Allen Weinstein, then head of the Center for Democracy, agrees with the column's point that exposed covert work backfired. The column describes the National Endowment for Democracy as funded by Congress.

Source: David Ignatius, The Washington Post
Date: 22 September 1991
Grade: Reported
Document: https://canada-haiti.ca/content/innocence-abroad-new-world-spyless-coups
Accessed: 2026-11-09
Cited by: Findings citing this exhibit
Note: Wording as reported in the secondary copy: "“A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA,” agrees Weinstein." (Washington Post, 22 Sep 1991 (republished copy)).

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Finding POL-6.15: Reported In a Washington Post column of 22 September 1991, David Ignatius quoted Allen Weinstein, then head of the Center for Democracy, as saying, "A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA." The column describes overt funding as avoiding the backlash that exposed covert work produced.