You missed Ghana in 1966 the most important one because that shattered hope of the entire African continent.

@jasonwilliamtjandra

Жыл бұрын

Ah yes where Kwame Nkrumah was deposed and Joseph Arthur Ankrah was installed by the CIA

@larryace4683

Жыл бұрын

It's important but it's not the most important. All coups are important to the affected peoples

Everytime I hear the Guatemala story, the first thing that comes to mind is Eisenhower screaming, "Commies! Commies! Reeeeee!" from Sam O'Nella piece on Banana Republics

@jackstraw522

3 жыл бұрын

Ironic that he also told us to beware the military industrial complex. He wasn’t wrong there

.. and we wonder why they don't like us.

@iteerrex8166

5 жыл бұрын

Really? Why would they care what we have within our borders? .. or were you being sarcastic.

@pascalemiller5414

5 жыл бұрын

Jess Vermont apparently you didn't watch the video.

@darter9000

5 жыл бұрын

Not even quotes can convey sarcasm to some... so what else can be done?

@aaronburratwood.6957

5 жыл бұрын

Tameem Moaleji I know why, especially right now.

@annamoshkanbarians492

5 жыл бұрын

@Jess Vermont I hope you were joking.we don't like you (and by you I mean your government) because you like to stick your nose into EVERYTHING and oh so stupidly justify it as "we are bringing freedom and democracy to you,be thankful and adore us or else" your meddling resulted in so much disaster around the world

With how active the CIA was with Coup d'états in the late '50s on through the '60s, kind of makes me wonder if the theory behind JFK's assassination being a Coup d'état is way more plausible. Lol.

@blackheartcardigan

2 жыл бұрын

And MLK

@josephcontreras8359

2 жыл бұрын

@@blackheartcardigan the Supreme Court ruled that the FBI and CIA were indeed responsible for the planned killing of MLK and the patsy , watch wendigoons video about the mlk assassination

@akiraasmr3002

Жыл бұрын

@@licheong You're not okay with that so called coup but you support the ones where the U.S. helped coups in Latin America because they can't have socialism in Latin America which lead to dictatorships and the killing of many civilians.

@davidthurston3346

Жыл бұрын

@@licheong stop it.

@truthaboveall7988

Жыл бұрын

100% the far right in Texas w held the information on Oswald as we now know they knew he was in the area & had been making threats against him - he did overthrow a lot of Govt's

Left out the 1963 coup of General Abdel Karim Kassem in Iraq, which led to the rise of Saddam Hussein. That’s 8.

@pelleoh

5 жыл бұрын

We rarely hear the fact that the US PAID Saddam to attack Iran. As long as the US puppets make money to the 1% in the US then they can do whatever they want.

@UserUnassigned

3 жыл бұрын

Also then overthrowing saddam more blatantly which lead to the state the middle east is in now

@andreibarabash9701

3 жыл бұрын

I know, I was waiting for it. But it just ain't there. I find this strange. Surely they know about it. Why not mention it? Perhaps it's too recent /close to heart?

@nissetorvang1709

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, and sure, Sadam used chemical weapons in the past... That US and UK had sold to him!!!

@rileysmith9843

3 жыл бұрын

And Venezuela could be next.

Ya i don't like our meddling in other peoples affairs and this is prime example of why we really shouldn't

Seven seems really low. I've the number is around 47.

@JeanLucCaptain

4 жыл бұрын

Does that include the current wars in Syria and Ukraine?

@garyfaris

3 жыл бұрын

Your list, please?

@DansuB4nsu03

2 жыл бұрын

47?!?!? iS tHaT a HiTmAn ReFeReNcE?!?!?!?!!??!???? 😳😳😳😱😱😱😰😱😰🤯🤯🤯😎🤓😎🧐🧐🥵🥵

This video will now self destruct.

@ddavis4730

5 жыл бұрын

I wish

@bandersnatchful

5 жыл бұрын

LOL, but not really funny, watch it disappear.

Great video!! Just would like to add that in Brazil, the envolvement of the CIA wasn’t limited to sending supplies, but there was Operation Brother Sam. The US Navy sent and Aircraft carrier with marines, munitions and other supplies to intervene in case our military here didn’t manage to get rid of president João Goulart, popularly known as “Jango”.

Sometimes the only thing worse than doing nothing is doing something without considering the consequences.

@Sniperboy5551

2 жыл бұрын

Is that why you have a stupid “Ukraine Forever” profile picture? 😆

@kiddfaith4397

2 жыл бұрын

@@Sniperboy5551 I’m more curious as to why it offends you. Why U mad bro? 😂

@Kyle-fq4kq

Жыл бұрын

I think they knew the consequences, they just don’t care as long as Marxism is gone

The CIA were also heavily involved in the disposal of the Australian PM Gough Whitlam.

@anandkhushi9310

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for adding this! The democratically elected and visionary leader of Australia. Oh, but he was NOT going to renew the lease for the USA's spy agency in Australia at Pine Gap...oops "surveillance station". On 11 November 1975, the day Whitlam was scheduled to brief the Australian Parliament on the secret CIA presence in Australia, he was dismissed from office by Governor-General John Kerr using "archaic viceregal reserve powers".

Haiti? Panama? You couldn't have found 3 more that fit the format? My OCD is NOT happy about this.

@CaptainLog

5 жыл бұрын

My OCD isn't happy about the shelf in my room. I don't have time to be worried about an internet video.

@aaronburratwood.6957

5 жыл бұрын

Daniel Bell Seven is a lucky number though. Chalk it up to that.

@dyeeb

5 жыл бұрын

Great. Now I'm all schitz'd about the shelf in your room, too. Maybe there's a journal article in this.

@thelegendarypandicorn1777

5 жыл бұрын

Haiti we didn't collapse, it made the mistake of committing a genocide and then NOBODY wanted to trade with them. As for Panama, the nation of Panama didn't exist yet, so there wasn't a government to collapse. The United States literally made up Panama when it went in to take some land from Columbia to make trade easier.

@dyeeb

5 жыл бұрын

I'll take your word for it. Your understanding of history and world affairs is probably better than mine. Yet I'm still left with the impression that it the real number is more than 7.

So why all the whining about "boo-hoo, Russians influencing the American election"? If the Americans can't take it, then they should stop dishing it out.

@MsMoons123

9 ай бұрын

Don’t blame American people for our corrupt government. We are powerless against our government. Look at the 20 year sentences that they are dishing out to people that protested at the Capitol.

@halvorson566

Ай бұрын

That’s not the way it works buddy. Every contract with these capabilities do it, but also don’t want other countries doing it to them. Kind of common sense

The moral of the story as I see it: during the Cold War, murderous dictators were perfectly fine as long as they left us alone, but if you are even peripherally a potential threat to our oil, businesses, or capitalist ideals of "the haves and the not acknowledged," then you have to go and we'll replace you with the guy who wants your job the most.

@thelegendarypandicorn1777

5 жыл бұрын

No, during the Cold War, governments were pawns in a larger game as the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. battled vigorously over the world stage. Both sides made murderous dictators, it's just that, since we won and almost all of the non-U.S. backed ones got killed by us or their own people, the only ones left to talk about are our mistakes.

@SincereSentinel

8 ай бұрын

Well said. Correct.

@shayneaspin7495

6 ай бұрын

you disnt have to interfere wirh anything all you had to do was have something the USA wanted and if you disnt give it to them they took it

@The_philosophical_cockroach

4 ай бұрын

​@@thelegendarypandicorn1777 You my friend know history

But hey atleast the kids got Disney branded backpacks

I did like the video but I believe you could have added several more particularly in South America. Like Argentina

I am loving the sassy new Simon! Such a serious but interesting, frustrating, depressing topic really brings out the best in you. Keep at it!

Simon, great video as always. Your presentation skills are spot on and your razor sharp wit/sarcasm hits well everytime. I hope you keep this new format. It looks amazing! Keep it going guys!

That anybody trusts our government about anything, either within, or without our country, is bizarre

@nikintinia1732

9 ай бұрын

I don’t…….wouldn’t trust the US government with my grandmother’s false teeth…….filthiest GOVERNMENT on the planet

Australia 1975, they had a hand in the removal of the Whitlam Labor government. Not only was the Governor General, John Kerr, a former CIA associate, but Marshall Green was the US ambassador - a man who coups and revolutions seemed to follow wherever he was posted.

I just cant understand the reason for so many people to justify the actions of a dictator like Pinochet. Many inocent people was tortured and assasinated just for their beliefs, lots of books were burned and lots of music was forbidden. Teachers, writters, union leaders, musicians were killed and tortured by the police and the army. No one with a grain of empathy can support this actions, and ir you do, you just make me sick!

@joaomarcelo742

5 жыл бұрын

They are bending out of shape to defend the Chicago Boys.

@Septe.

5 жыл бұрын

I mean the Chinese emperor who commissioned the building of the Great Wall of China did the same thing...[RIP hundreds of Chinese].

@penguinking4830

5 жыл бұрын

@@Septe. Building stuff is dangerous. Building the Panama Canal wasn't a walk in the park. According to hospital records, 5,609 died of diseases and accidents during the U.S. construction period. Of these, 4,500 were West Indian workers. A total of 350 white Americans died.

@frankd2301

5 жыл бұрын

I don’t know anyone who justifies the actions of Pinochet. He was awful. Only Kissinger and the CIA did

@chingis1154

Жыл бұрын

They were communists

Thank you for making this video

Allende killed himself by shooting himself in the back three times.

@letitiajeavons6333

2 жыл бұрын

Haha. Come up with something physiologically possible.

@JohnnyYK

2 жыл бұрын

@@letitiajeavons6333 whoosh

@Buildinc1

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a Clinton hit list 👍

@akiraasmr3002

Жыл бұрын

He was "suicided"/Epsteined

7,,,, you could have done 47 countries, Is this a lazy Monday video.

@justoneman1681

5 жыл бұрын

What are the other 40?

@justoneman1681

4 жыл бұрын

@@pickingwithdick4240 okay. What are the other 78?

KZread tried to censor this video

@Purgatorrri

5 жыл бұрын

Make you wonder why...

@grandtheftavocado

5 жыл бұрын

KZread liberals hate America so I doubt they would want to censor this

@FNLNFNLN

5 жыл бұрын

KZread "liberals" are corporatists, just like the Republican party. Bashing the US government is bashing their buddies, and that can't stand.

Nice video, Simon. Very informative as always. I like the change in the background, too. =D

The Dulles brothers were the main culprits behind the Guatemala coup and their motive was not because of political but monetary, they were heavily invested in the fruit company, and one was CIA chief and the other Secretary of State.

@GigawingsVideo

5 жыл бұрын

Banana Republic.

@jamesduffy1020

5 жыл бұрын

Also the claim the.leader was Communist was a made up charge so they could sell the idea of a coup.

@benperkins9237

10 ай бұрын

Dulles brothers ,pure evil

And what about that minor JFK incident in Dallas? If that assassination had happened elsewhere, we'd all be happy to recognize the CIA's footprint on the grassy knoll.

If anyone wants to read more about the Congo, there’s a novel called The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver. I highly recommend it!

Average American: Why does the world hate us? Watches video. “Oh. I understand.”😂

i love this type of video, keep it up simon and TT staff :)

If Diem was over thrown in 1963 at JFK's urging, I find it hard to believe the South Vietnamese Generals asked for help doing so in 1953. Especially since South Vietnam didn't exist yet. The final French defeat in Indochina happened in 1954.

@taylor3557

5 жыл бұрын

Twas a typo

@Collector261

5 жыл бұрын

Simon Whistler is constantly making guffaws. In other videos, he referred to Eisenhower during World War 2 as ""President Eisenhower'' instead of "General Eisenhower''. And on another video he talked about former silent film star Lon Chaney being on a 1950s television show when in fact that was his son, Lon Chaney Junior! Lon Chaney Senior was long dead.

I loved it! Thank you

Your video's give me a few minutes of tranquility in an otherwise crazy life. Thanks for the quality distraction's Simon.

Only seven? Now you know that's a lie...

Y’alls “top seven” is better than a lot of others channels “top 10”. Sweet...

João Goulart : has diplomacy with China LBJ : this is an avengers level threat

Simon, one of your best. Should be known and understood by everyone in USA. Bravo!!

Can we have a top 10 but for Britain's security agency? I liked this video :)

Great show

Finally seeing this video. Better late than never, right? Interesting event that happened lo these many years ago. I was at work, cranking out some C code, when my boss, who had ties to the military, called me into his office and closed the door. Sitting in the other chair was an older guy with really bad dandruff. He started talking up the CIA and showed me a few spy tech gadgets. I allowed as to how they were pretty cool. Nobody came right out and said anything, but it occurred to me that I was possibly being recruited. After the meeting was over, I shook the guy's hand and thanked him for the show-and-tell. Again, nobody said anything, but I was left with the impression that I should talk to my boss later if I was interested. Since the CIA didn't have exactly a stellar reputation in my mind, I never said a word and neither did anyone else. To this day, 30 years later, I'm still not certain just what was going on.

Great Video :)

love it simon!

You should do an update on 2014 coup in Ukraine .

@JJerry-mh1mp

Жыл бұрын

Although I do agree. I feel like for some people who are informed on these kind of things, pointing out coups that are too recent makes them more doubtful then if it happened around half a decade ago is generally more recognized. Especially with what's going on right now in UKR, a lot are refraining from mentioning it due to the fear of being blacklisted as a "Russian Bot" among other things.

Next target: Venezuela

@chancelathrop7682

5 жыл бұрын

I feel like any person who follows their current leader can't be any worse so lets go for it

@Robbedem

5 жыл бұрын

they already did Venezuela... Why do you think it's such a shithole now?

@J0derVIVIVI

5 жыл бұрын

@Paul_H it already fell by their hands when they Killed Chavez. Maduro is, sadly, a slow burning trash fire they know will go out on its own.

@J0derVIVIVI

5 жыл бұрын

The fact that you can't Fathom, more so after watching this, The CIA had anything to do with Chavez's demised says a lot. They may not have "Directly" assassinated him but that they play a hand (big or small) on taking him out of power can't be denied.

@J0derVIVIVI

5 жыл бұрын

Do you have evidence to prove otherwise? The only reason many if not all the points on this video are known to the "world" is because the documents containing said classified information were released by law or flat out pointed out as true by former CIA agents decades later after the event. I don't need to prove or show evidence the CIA had a hand on taking out Chavez or any other "Enemy of the empire" either by Killing or Destabilizing the country's economic, it's track record speaks for itself.

'So, oopsadaisy' hahahahahahahahaha :-)

Simon going full on savage with his historical CIA critique

It should be called the Central Meddling Agency

We Americans are horrible at thinking about the long-term consequences of our actions.

Your on a list now

Very educational and very funny ! Jimmy Dore look out ! ; )

OH! Let's do one on the countries Britain overthrew and controlled and exploited for hundreds of years next!

Great powers have interfered with lesser powers throughout history. It is a dangerous situation when private armaments manufactures become a major lobby group in a major power.

Thank you for this video. It looks s timely in that there was another coup in Brazil...

Anyone else get the feeling that Simon has just HAD IT with the 'super powers' and their world-destroying nonsense? Some of his latest videos this year have had quite some teeth. Love it!

While the 1965-66 mass murders in Indonesia may not have featured official CIA involvement, I feel they ought not to have been overlooked due to their utter gruesome nature and obvious involvement of at least The US State Department due to the admissions of Robert J. Martens.

Wow that was super interesting

Oh and Panama.

Thanks TopTenz.😊 Great Segment?😁

Nice shirt!

Nobody knows why Trujillo's car suddenly crashed (so conveniently) near the waiting assassins. This lead to belief that there was an unknown mercenary involved. Frederick Forsyth called him the 'Jackal'.

Thanks for bringing back bad memories. This needs to be said no matter what. I apologize to those countries from at least 1 American.

Seven? Seven? Dude our numbers are way higher than that! That's a slap in the face bro. Give us some credit, our numbers are at least in the 30's

Great video, Simon. I’d love to see a similar one related to the Soviet Union (other than Eastern Europe right after the war, since that story is already so well known).

@pelleoh

5 жыл бұрын

Not stuff enough for a video though. They're were usually invited by the democratic elected leaders when CIA and the US did their usual thing, like in Afghanistan.

@denniswilliams3592

5 жыл бұрын

Sorry. I’m interested in history. Not politics.

@pelleoh

5 жыл бұрын

Well, no video then as it's not enough material for such video according to history.

@denniswilliams3592

5 жыл бұрын

Well thank you very much for sharing your opinion. I promise to give it all the thought and reflection it deserves.

@winchesterlyon

3 жыл бұрын

@@denniswilliams3592 It's not an opinion. It is fact. There wouldn't be enough to make a video.

Like they just did in Brazil, or do we need to wait 60 years before being able to say that out loud?

Top Sev-Tenz! :)

So many to choose from. Nothing very recent though. How about obozo unleashing the hounds in syrria?

Simon has a beautiful Orb or Power on his shelf. He should touch it.

Surely Iraq, Afghanistan and Lebanon could have been on that list?

Y'all are the bomb

I loved this video and would like to see more like it, with more current actions. Especially as we are currently interfering in some of these countries in South America, again. No wonder these people hate us.

@commandZee

5 жыл бұрын

Again? The CIA has never stopped. As long as there is major American/British corporate interest in a foreign nation, the CIA is there operating in their favor.

@sjelucten7150

10 ай бұрын

Riots in France because Maccaron visited China to join BRICS ? Solomon island fire destroyed local Chinese shops ? Hong Kong riots ? riots in Jakarta Indonesia ?

@shayneaspin7495

6 ай бұрын

watch a show called " on company buisness, inside the CIA" it's 3hrs long, it tells lots

lol calling the smoking man, cancer man XD

You forgot the most recent one, Libya

A clear case of insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result each time.

Why do you think they kept doing it if it wasn't having the desired effect? Hard to make a convincing argument that they didn't know what they were doing each and every time.

This sort of thing doesn't get covered enough

Calling the CIA idiots would be a compliment.

And you should add Syria Lybia Afghanistan and Ukraine to that list. Perhaps even Russia in 1917 being an early coup of the czar

At 10:24 we have some obscure band from Iran at their photo shoot.

You forgot to mention the Reagan support of the contras in Nicaragua after the arms for hostages debacle!

Panama? Grenada? Nicaragua? There's tons of examples.

didn't Pinochet give free helicopter rides

Well Simon, I've enjoyed your videos, it's been nice knowing you. This was your best one so far - and a great way to leave us. I've heard a fall from the 47th floor isn't a terrible way to die - especially when you are high on LSD! You crazy brave man, we won't forget you!

thank you for the unbiased video

top 10 most insane hostage rescues please

I make a comment wbout Simon not wearing his ring for toptenz and NEXT DAY he’s wearing it.hmm🤔

This episode is necessary

The moral of this story: If you break something, even if had broken a dozen times before, in the same way, you are responsible for every future break... apparently. P

@godxavior

3 жыл бұрын

If you push someone in front of a train, are you responsible when it hits them? That's more accurate for the way the CIA meddles

Forgot the JFK assassination

Also Australia, (Gough Whitlam's dismissal by Governor General) as depicted in the Falcon and the Snowman

When ever anyone says a broken clock is right twice a day, it reminds me of bill o'reilly

Everyone forgets the fact that Shah Pahlavi was the shah when mossadek was the pm

Ah, the Cold War. The gift that just kept giving..... And, we wonder why so many people around the world don't exactly trust us.

Could you do one on how many governments the Soviets overthrew? Or how many people were murdered by communists?

What’s up with the snuff pic out of the blue for #3? I get this is about an assassination but you had avoided cheap shock pics up til then.

You are confusing Cancer Man (from the episode "Leonard Betts") and the Cigarette Smoking Man, played by William Davis.

I think Pinochet embezzeled 17B not 17M but maybe that is in 2020-ish monies

In the ongoing netflix series "insert title"

Now you can add Bolivia

How long until KZread takes down this video again?