Covert action in Colombia

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Covert action in Colombia

Previously undisclosed CIA program provided intelligence for airstrikes and GPS kits to guide smart bombs.

via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2013/12/21/covert-action-in-colombia/?wprss=rss_world

The 50-year-old Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), once considered the best-funded insurgency in the world, is at its smallest and most vulnerable state in decades, due in part to a CIA covert action program that has helped Colombian forces kill at least two dozen rebel leaders, according to interviews with more than 30 former and current U.S. and Colombian officials.