<![CDATA[CIA Shot Down American Missionary Plane, Repeatedly Misled Congress, Report Finds]]>

1.0 link 145263 <![CDATA[CIA Shot Down American Missionary Plane, Repeatedly Misled Congress, Report Finds]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/20/cia-shot-down-american-mi_n_145263.html The CIA repeatedly misled Congress and the Justice Department in their investigations of the 2001 shoot-down of a Peruvian plane carrying U.S. missionaries, according to findings of an internal CIA probe released today by congressional officials.

The agency's inspector general concluded that CIA officers in Peru consistently ignored rules of engagement in connection with the downing of at least 10 aircraft suspected of carrying narcotics over the South American country. Yet, CIA managers covered up the problems and knowingly gave false...

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