ARGENTINA-CIA DIRECTOR APOLOGISES TO ARGENTINA.
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director Leon Panetta, who said Argentina could be pushed into instability by the global financial crisis, and made remarks regarding the farmers unrest and the countries friendship with Venezuela, gave a formal apology to President Christina Fernandez de Kirchner on Saturday.
The Argentine Ambassador to the United States Hector Timmerman, announced on Saturday "Panetta himself called me on Friday and apologized for his statements made and said they were not the opinion of the CIA or the government of the United States, rather the opinion of an independent report".
The apology has been accepted and the matter is over, according to a government spokesman in Buenos Aires.
The CIA involvement in Argentina for the last 18 months, has been closely monitored by Brazil, Chile and Argentina, after the debacle over the trial in Miami making allegations about the President of Argentina and US$800,000 cash in a suitcase.
There is no doubt that the CIA have been involved in the farmers dispute, as they were in Chile in 1973 and Venezuela in 2003.
