For more than 50 years, the CIA used encryption devices to spy on its adversaries and allies, according to a new report by the Washington Post. Tom Blanton, head of the non-governmental National Security Archive, talks with host Marco Werman about how much US intelligence agencies knew about the dirty deeds of military dictatorships in South America.
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