Declassified CIA Report Exposes 25 Years of US Plans to Destabilize Syria

Declassified CIA Report Exposes Over 25 Years of U.S. Plans to Destabilize Syria

Anti-Assad protesters burn a picture of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad with 'Corruption' written across his face. (AP/Kostas Tsironis)

A CIA report, drafted in 1986, details the agency’s “purposely provocative” analysis of the regime’s vulnerabilities and the potential to destabilize and oust then-President Hafez al-Assad.