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> It's instructive for people my age who are thinking of careers in foreign policy to know that you can back death squads in Central America, deny mass atrocities, brazenly defy Congressional dictates, get convicted of withholding information from Congress, back a covert coup d'état, actively undermine the peace process in Israel, and be in charge of implementing the Bush administration's "freedom agenda" and end up with a senior fellowship at the Council on Foreign Relations and an offer to be CFR's president should Richard Haass leave. I believe the term for this is "perverse incentive".
If you find this interesting, there is a fantastic book on US "influence" in Latin America called Empire's Workshop.
Louis Hartz: The Liberal Tradition in America
Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies (both volumes)
Eric Fromm's Escape from Freedom
Chalmers Johnson: The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic
Hanah Arendt: Origins of Totalitarianism and On Violence
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers
Capitalism and Slavery
American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America
INSIDE THE COMPANY: CIA DIARY
Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism
The Underground History of American Education: A School Teacher's Intimate Investigation Into the Problem of Modern Schooling
Empire's Workshop by Greg Grandin covers the problem in some depth, but in relation to broader problems of US foreign policy and intervention in Latin America.
It's a great piece of scholarship and academic history that's accessible to a lay audience as well.
And I've never read it, but apparently Bitter Fruit is a classic on the subject.
Read Empire's workshop. You can find it on Amazon, I'll put a link in my comment. We had to read this book during my Latin America history class in college. Pretty much breaks down 100 years of American imperialism in L.A. We pretty much put a pro big business dictator in every country in South America, and we took out a lot of democratic governments while doing it under the guise of "battling communism". https://www.amazon.com/Empires-Workshop-America-Imperialism-American/dp/0805083235
I'm a historian of Latin America, so I really only know about the US-Latin American cases or the US/Canadian/European - Caribbean cases. Peter Kornbluh has published a lot of declassified US primary source documents that relate to US interventionism abroad.
The Pinochet File, about Chile
Bay of Pigs Declassified, about Cuba
A really good secondary source is Greg Grandin's book Empire's Workshop.
A great secondary source on this sort of stuff occurring during the 1970s in Southeast Asia, by Alfred McCoy, is The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade. Meticulously researched (the book is over 1000 pages, the footnotes are endless). McCoy is a pretty tremendous historian, out of U of Wisconsin. His area of expertise is Southeast Asia, not the US, and like me, he stumbled into a much darker story than he ever expected to find.
Is this it?
https://www.amazon.com/Empires-Workshop-America-Imperialism-American/dp/0805083235
No one understands history and current events of Latin America worse than coxinhas. http://www.amazon.com/Empires-Workshop-America-Imperialism-American/dp/0805083235