Different time, different era, different rules.
Back when the CIA was allegedly "installing dictators" around the globe, we were in the middle of a cold war, and we were trying to stop the spread of communism.
The philosophy back then was "He might be a son of a bitch, but he's
OUR son of a bitch"
If we didn't support those governments, the Soviets would have, and then they would have had the basing rights, and the oil rights, etc etc etc.
It was the lesser of 2 evils so to speak.
We were allies with them because we wanted to defeat the soviets and communism. The same way we were allies with Stalin when we were trying to get rid of Hitler. It was a marriage of convenience and necessity, don't go making it into more than it was.
