Friday, March 04, 2005

The 1954 Guatemala Documents

After years of negating the Freedom of Information Act, the CIA declassified and released 1400 of an estimated 100,000 pages of its secret archives on "Operation PBSUCCESS" on May 23, 1997. This covert operation was a Guatemalan destabilization program with the goal of overthrowing the 1950 elected nationalist Guatemalan President Arbenz. "Operation PBSUCCESS" was authorized by Presidetn Eisenhower in August, and included a $2.7 million budget for "pychological warfare and political action" and "subversion." Check out these declassified CIA documents here.

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