WASHINGTON (AP) — An Associated Press investigation finds that the U.S. Agency for International Development secretly sent nearly a dozen young people from Venezuela, Costa Rica and Peru to Cuba in an effort to recruit young Cubans to anti-government activism.

They operated under the cover of health and civic programs, including an HIV prevention workshop.

It's unclear whether any of the political objectives were ever realized.

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