Ecuador
Former CIA agent Philip Agee stated that the agency began efforts in 1961 to bring down the regime of President Jose Velasco lbarra of Ecuador after he refused to sever diplomatic relations with Cuba. Iberra was overthrown in November, 1961. His successor, Carlos Julio Arosemena, soon fell out of favor with the United States and once again the CIA used "destabilizing tactics" to overthrow his government in July 1963. Agee noted that while on assignment in Ecuador, he and five other CIA agents managed to gain economic and political control over Ecuador's labor movement. His CIA team, said Agee, ultimately "owned almost everybody who was anybody."
