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Published 11/20/2008 at Reuters: Politics
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The CIA obstructed inquiries into its role in the shooting down of an aircraft carrying a family of U.S. missionaries in Peru in 2001, the agency's inspector general has concluded.
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