Person

John Foster Dulles

U.S. Secretary of State under President Eisenhower.

4 links, 2 backed by primary records. 7 more in open data

Connections 4

The 1954 coup in Guatemala 13 Mar 1954 Secretary of State; briefed on PBSUCCESS on 13 March 1954 Primary record 2
The U.S. antitrust action against United Fruit 17 Jun 1954 told the National Security Council on 17 June 1954 that the suit might show Central Americans U.S. policy was not meant to protect the fruit company, but feared it might interfere “with certain activities of the Central Intelligence Agency” Primary record 3

Bitter Fruit the authors’ account of the Dulles brothers’ ties to the company: general counsel to the Schroder bank, he handled the 1936 negotiations with United Fruit Scholarship & press 1

Timeline 3 dates

Proof 3 sources

Bitter Fruit: The Untold Story of the American Coup in Guatemala (Stephen Schlesinger and Stephen Kinzer, Doubleday, 1982), Doubleday, 1982. Scholarship & press
John Foster Dulles had been a senior partner of the New York law firm of Sullivan and Cromwell
Dulles, as general counsel to Schroder, handled the negotiations, arranging a cozy deal with United Fruit at the expense of his putative client, IRCA, and reaping a tidy profit for the Schroder Banking Corporation.
Operation PBSUCCESS: The United States and Guatemala, 1952–1954 (CIA History Staff, Nicholas Cullather; released 1997), Central Intelligence Agency, 1994. Primary record Archived copy
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles briefed on PBSUCCESS.
Editorial Note on the National Security Council meeting of 17 June 1954 (FRUS Guatemala 1952–1954, doc. 196), U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Primary record
Many of the Central American countries were convinced that the sole objective of United States foreign policy was to protect the fruit company.
with certain activities of the Central Intelligence Agency.

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