Foreign targets were tipped off by the careless statements of public officials including President Ronald Reagan.
If true, foreign governments acting with their usually reasonable suspicion could have merely fed what they wanted others to hear, including that which their partnered foreign governments wanted broadcast, so that the CIA would be hearing intel that was directed toward them, but not necessarily viable...The CIA, acting with their own reasonable and natural suspicion, would then have been compelled to verify everything they heard in comparison to what was gathered from other clandestine sources...
The cat and mouse game therefore continued unabated as it does to this day...But it was a good coup anyway......Ben
The future is forged on the anvil of history...The interpreter of history wields the hammer... - Unknown author...