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...deposed Premier Mohammed Mossadegh (who had nationalized a British-owned oil company and was believed to be in league with Iran's Communist Party) and kept pro-American Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi on the throne of Iran; the 1954 revolution that overthrew the Communist-dominated government of President Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala. The CIA has been suspected of participating in the 1967 military coup in Greece, the capture and killing in 1967 of Cuban Revolutionary Che Guevara in Bolivia, and the 1970 overthrow of Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia...
...member of the agency's "Department of Dirty Tricks," he worked on the operation that overthrew the Communist-supported Guatemala regime of Jacobo Arbenz in 1954. After the coup, he recalls, "Arbenz and his people were stripped naked at the airport and searched before they were allowed to leave. One of his aides was Che Guevara. If we'd let our Guatemalans start to shoot them, as they wanted, there's no telling when the shooting would have stopped. It was a close decision, and I have often wondered how effective Castro would have been with...
Died. Colonel Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán, 57, far-leftist President of Guatemala, deposed in 1954 by a U.S.-sponsored exile invasion; by drowning after falling in his bathtub; in Mexico City. Known as "the Red Colonel," Arbenz was elected President in 1950 after the murder of his anti-Communist rival, Francisco Arana; once in office, Arbenz expropriated U.S. property, opened relations with Communist-bloc nations and generally established himself as a thorn in the U.S. side-so much so that in 1954 a CIA-supported force routed Arbenz's forces. The tactic was so successful that some observers...
Armas, the conquering hero, entered the city in the U.S. Ambassador's private airplane. (Endre Fontaine, History of the Cold War, Vol. II, N.Y. 1968, p. 378) Arbenz had raised the minimum wage from 26c to $1.08 a day, allowed trade unions and peasant leagues freedom to organize, and, under an agrarian reform law limiting the vast uncultivated holdings held by the oligarchy, expropriated 234,000 acres of unused United Fruit Company land. He didn't just take it, though. He offered U.F.C. $600,000 in 25-year 3 per cent government bonds which was the value listed...
Among the "thousands" (a highly doubtful figure) who were executed there were several hundred Batistiano army officers and police chiefs-by no means idle dissenters. Jaccbo Arbenz and Juan Bosch know that these legally appointed criminals are always the first to topple any leftist government. These are the various factions which the Magaralos feel should have been given a "voice," together with the millionaires, the latifundistas, those who held high jobs in American businesses, and the landlords. Perhaps it is better for Cuba that these "dissenters" have left...