Chavez Lawmakers Show Videotape to Prove CIA Plot

Guardian Unlimited -- Lawmakers allied with President Hugo Chavez showed a videotape Wednesday which they claim was evidence the CIA was working with Venezuelan dissidents to overthrow the government.

The U.S. Embassy denied the allegations.

Interpreting the video, ruling party lawmaker Nicolas Maduro said it showed U.S. secret agents training dissident military officers and municipal police in espionage and "terrorist'' tactics. He said it was filmed in Venezuela in June.

The U.S. Embassy said in a statement that the video showed a private security company, not CIA agents. It also said the U.S. government did not participate in the event.

EL - Could be technically true they were not CIA, the US is outsourcing intelligence work. Doesn't mean the US intelligence community isn't training dissidents for the next coup.