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November 21, 2008

CIA Accused of Lying over Agency’s Role in Downing of Plane in Peru in 2001
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An internal CIA investigation has determined agency officials lied to
members of Congress and withheld crucial information about the CIA’s
role in the downing of a civilian plane in Peru in 2001. An American
missionary and her infant daughter died when a Peruvian military jet
shot down their plane after a CIA surveillance aircraft had mistakenly
identified their plane as a drug-smuggling aircraft.



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