In Argentina specifically, there was Juan Peron. The broadway play and movie "Evita" is about his wife. I once read her biography.
Some astronomers I once met were at cerro tololo inter-american observatory in chile when some heavily armed men turned up to look after the nearby radio towers.
Conspiracy theories abound with respect to JFK's assassination.
No one really believes that communists torched the Reichstag.
On December 8, 1941, the pearl harbor base commander found a letter from the US state department in his mailbox, to let him know that the japanese might give him trouble sometime soon.
"Gentlemen do not read each others' mail.". That was the stated reason that the US stopped its codebreaking work. I dont believe it really did. The best way to read a gentleman's mail is if he doesnt think he needs to encrypt it.
Josef Stalin once knocked over a bank, then gave all the loot to Lenin.