Person

Thomas G. Corcoran

Washington lawyer and lobbyist who worked for United Fruit.

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United Fruit Company lobbyist and the company’s main conduit to the sources of power Primary record 1

Operation PBSUCCESS: The United States and Guatemala, 1952–1954 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

Proof 1 source

Operation PBSUCCESS: The United States and Guatemala, 1952–1954 (CIA History Staff, Nicholas Cullather; released 1997), Central Intelligence Agency, 1994. Primary record Archived copy
Thomas G. Corcoran was the company's main conduit to the sources of power.
Thomas Corcoran, United Fruit Company lobbyist, meets with Deputy Assistant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs, Thomas Mann, to suggest action to oust Guatemalan President Juan José Arévalo.
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.

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