A pattern that I've noticed studying CIA operations is that Western countries are consistently passing colonial projects between each other. For example, a CIA asset may go in to do reconnaissance on something like locally owned mines in Brazil. Then someone tied to another Western intelligence service from Israel or France might pay an assassin to kill the head of the Union at that mine and other local assets to instigate violence. Then after the violent riots break out, everything gets shut down and the profits are lost a Canadian company may come in and offer bottom dollar to reopen the defunct mine. Every actor participating will receive some portion of the profits... But they intentionally avoid having everything carried out by one country So the chain of events leading to the takeover can be plausibly deniable. I imagine that's what this is. We also know the UK is involved.
