So then rather then being "covered up", it was a circumstance of not getting covered on the nightly news. And incidents like that would stand to get covered far more in the blogsphere, if nothing else, today?

>>I was not aware that dicatators in Indonesia and S. Korea committed atrocities against their own people under the watchful eye of the US govt and nothing was done because the dictator was considered such an important cog in the fight against communism.
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>But that is not because it was "covered up" Everyone who cared about it knew about it. Indifference is not the same as being the victim of a conspiracy to suppress knowledge.