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Target State: Japan Dates: 1952-68 Tactics: Covert – Election influence Type of Operation: Preventive Regime Replaced: Yes Primary Source Documents: • FRUS, 1968–1968, Vol. XXIX, Part 2, Japan, ed. Karen L. Gatz (Washington, DC: US GPO, 2006), Doc. 1, Editorial Note • Psychological Strategy Board, December 22, 1952), “Psychological Strategy Program for Japan,” NSA • Robert O. Blake, James D. Mason, and Horace G. Torbert, December 29, 1990, “Interview with Robert O. Blake,” Manuscript/mixed material, Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/mfdipbib000096/

Seymour Hirsch releases report documenting CIA domestic spying on US citizens: "A New York Times reporter, Seymour Hersh, had uncovered the secret of the agency's spying on Americans. He had gotten the gist of the story from months of reporting, and on Friday, December 20, 1974, he received a long-sought interview with Colby at headquarters. Colby, who secretly taped the conversation, tried to convince Hersh that the illegal surveillance was of no great importance, a small affair, best left unspoken. "I think family skeletons are best left where they are--in the closet," he said to Hersh. But, he conceded, it had happened. Hersh wrote all night and into Saturday morning.

The story ran December 22, 1974, on page one of the Sunday paper. The banner headline read: HUGE C.I.A. OPERATION REPORTED IN U.S. AGAINST ANTI-WAR FORCES.

US-trained military leader Leopoldo Galtieri is appointed President of Argentina by the ruling US-backed military junta, one month after US-trained military dictator Roberto Viola was ousted from the Presidency