> They say themselves they were from US State department or CIA histories of those countries.

Given Wikipedia’s rules and origin, it’d make perfect sense if the early articles referenced the CIA World Factbook when describing countries, if that’s what you’re talking about. There was a dearth of online, open source material to draw from 25 years ago, and on the uncontroversial basic facts the factbook would be fine as an up to date online reference until something else was available.

That would be a rather different issue than CENTCOM employees altering descriptions of the history of US government atrocities.