Person
Walter Bedell Smith
U.S. general; Under Secretary of State in 1954 and a former Director of Central Intelligence; joined United Fruit’s board in 1955.
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intervened in
- The 1954 coup in Guatemala Under Secretary of State; the authors of Bitter Fruit say he was seeking an executive job with United Fruit while helping plan the coup According to Bitter Fruit Scholarship & press 1
board member of
- United Fruit Company 1955 Primary record 2
Timeline 1 date
- 1955 Walter Bedell Smith board member of United Fruit Company
Proof 2 sources
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Bitter Fruit: The Untold Story of the American Coup in Guatemala (Stephen Schlesinger and Stephen Kinzer, Doubleday, 1982), Doubleday, 1982.
Scholarship & press
Undersecretary of State Bedell Smith was seeking an executive job with United Fruit while helping to plan the coup against Guatemala
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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
Archived copy
arranged for former DCI Walter Bedell Smith to join the company's board of directors.
the addition of Walter Bedell Smith to the board of directors in 1955
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