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Operation PBSUCCESS: The United States and Guatemala, 1952–1954
The CIA’s internal history of the 1954 Guatemala operation, by Nicholas Cullather, released in 1997.
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- The 1954 coup in Guatemala told in the CIA’s own history Primary record 1
- Jacobo Árbenz allowed free passage to Mexico on 12 September 1954, after a final humiliation; he lived in exile until he drowned in his bathtub in 1971 Primary record 1
- Thomas G. Corcoran met State Department and CIA officials in 1950; the history says the body text and the timeline describe the May 1950 meeting differently Primary record 1
- Víctor Manuel Gutiérrez headed the union federation; police killed him and 11 other leaders in the late 1960s, the history says Primary record 1
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Central Intelligence Agency
1994
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A CIA History Staff publication whose foreword says the views expressed are the author’s and do not necessarily represent the CIA’s.
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Operation PBSUCCESS: The United States and Guatemala, 1952–1954 (CIA History Staff, Nicholas Cullather; released 1997), Central Intelligence Agency, 1994.
Primary record
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The CIA's operation to overthrow the Government of Guatemala in 1954
allowed Arbenz free passage to Mexico on 12 September 1954.
returning finally to Mexico where in 1971 he drowned in his bathtub.
Corcoran met in May 1950 with the head of the State Department's office on Central America, Thomas C. Mann, to discuss ways to secure the election of a centrist candidate.
without approval from State, CIA evinced little interest.
headed by Víctor Manuel Gutiérrez, claimed some 90,000 members.
Guatemalan police force arrested, tortured, and killed Victor Gutiérrez and 11 other leaders, sewed their bodies into burlap sacks and dropped them in the ocean from an army transport plane.
This early CIA covert action operation delighted both President Eisenhower and the Dulles brothers by ousting President Arbenz and installing Colonel Castillo Armas in his place.
the views expressed--as in all of our works--are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Central Intelligence Agency.
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