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Washington, Dec 26 (IANS) Fifty years ago, the US Congress held its first public hearing into secret CIA operations aimed at overthrowing a foreign government. The focus was Chile.The hearing was led by Senator Frank Church, an Idaho Democrat. He said the step was taken because “the American people must know and be able to judge what was undertaken by their government in Chile.”Church said the goal was to explain “the nature and extent of the American role in the overthrow of a democratica…