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Security & Strategic Review February 2008 (ISSN 1741-4202)
BOLIVIA: US embassy cited in two spying scandals
Two separate spying scandals rattled the Bolivian political establishment
and the US embassy in late January and early February. One involved the
revelation that the national police had been engaging in 'unauthorised' spying
on politicians and journalists: the government hinted at US involvement, the
opposition blamed Venezuela and Cuba. The other was the discovery that a US
embassy official had asked a Fulbright scholar to spy on Cubans and Venezuelans
he came across while in the country. The first episode has led the government to
order an overhaul of the national police's intelligence activities. The second
was defused after the US ambassador offered explanations.
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