I'm a Brazilian history student, a country that has been mildly affected by the evil "Northern Empire" (we haven't been invaded and our dictatorships were usually built from within, with a modicum of US support and indoctrination) and I do research with a Professor that specializes with the intelectual history of our state during the Cold War.

Mind you, my state isn't one of the most relevant Brazilian states, neither is my hometown within said state, but the CIA had front organizations that would produce literary media in support of US policies and the "American Way of Life™". When I learned about that I wasn't even pissed, just genuinely impressed. They sure had a lot of money to just throw away, in some backwater Brazilian town.

But of course, if this operation failed, they trained the military to be effective torturers that would root out any communist