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Memorandum for the Record
In a Weekly PBSuccess Meeting between Deputy Director of Plans Frank Wisner (DD/P), top Government officials discuss the next steps in the light of the deteriorating situation. They discuss:
Current ("going downhill") status of PB Success,
Plan to implement radio station,
an informant named Mr. X from a hostile embassy,
"the best way to bring about the fall of the Arbenz government would be to eliminate 15-20 of its leaders with Trujillo's trained pistoleros,"
"PBSUCCESS is a complex, top secret program which includes ghost voicing, deception, mines, bazookas, and fire power,"
“It is difficult to explain without the wall map and charts”
"Everything we do may be plausibly denied if uncovered".
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Telegram From the Central Intelligence Agency to Operation PBSUCCESS Headquarters in Florida
Telegram from Allen Dulles and his deputies congratulating CIA team for the great victory of overthrowing the government. "This victory is the more notable by virtue of the extreme difficulties of the operation and the odds which were recognized to be against our chances of success from the outset. The energy and devotion of the personnel at LINC and the field Stations has been truly exceptional and has served as an inspiration and a challenge to all of us at hqs."
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Draft Memorandum for the Record
Detailed memo outlining program for Operation PBSuccess. CIA outlines their objectives, their statement of the problem, and the six-stage playbook of the operation.
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May Day Parade (photo negatives)
Guatemala City: May 1, 1954
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Central Intelligence Agency Information Report
Detailed report on the "Personal Political Orientation of President Arbenz," and all the reasons that he is not a communist. Summary: "Although President Arbenz appears to collaborate with the Communists and extremists to the detriment of Guatemala’s relations with the US, I am quite certain that he personally does not agree with the economic and political ideas of the Guatemalan or Soviet Communists, and I am equally certain that he is not now in a position where they can force him to make decisions in their favor."
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13. Memorandum for the Record
Allen Dulles proposes putting together a syndicate to raise money for the ouster of Jacobo Arbenz.
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The Officer in Charge of Central America and Panama Affairs (Leddy) to the Ambassador in Guatemala (Peurifoy)
Message between U.S. ambassadors. “There is 100 percent determination here, from the top down, to get rid of this stinker and not to stop until that is done.”
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Memorandum for the record
A contemplated course of action for the Guatemala problem—which "now represents a serious threat to hemispheric solidarity and to our security in the Caribbean area."
"Essentially a primitive, rural country... Guatemala is currently engaged in an intensely nationalistic program of progress colored by the touchy, anti-foreign inferiority complex of the “Banana Republic”. Includes the budget!
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CIA National Intelligence Estimate, March 1952
Present Political Situation in Guatemala and Possible Developments During 1952
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CIA Response to Freedom of Information Request for Radio Liberation / Operation Sherwood audio Recordings
In response to our FOIA request, the CIA said they could not locate the documents/files.
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FRUS AND CIA DOCUMENTS SHOWING U.S. INFORMATION AGENCY’S INVOLVEMENT IN THE ARBENZ OVERTHROW OPERATION
From pre- and post-overthrow.