Wikileaks claims Irishman gunned down in Bolivia was set up [View All]

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Source: Irish Central

An Irishman shot to death by the Bolivian Army in April 2009 was lured to his death, a new Wikileaks document claims.

Michael Dwyer, a 24-year-old man from Tipperary, was one of the three men shot in Santa Cruz last April 16th over an alleged plot to assassinate president Evo Morales.

Wikileaks quotes a U.S. Embassy cable which states the government set Dwyer and his fellow paramilitary gang members up in order to attack opponents of the Evo Morales government.

Bolivian investigators later claimed to have found email correspondence linking one of the men shot to Istvan Belovai, a former Hungarian military intelligence officer who defected to the U.S. in 1990 and later became a CIA agent.

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