Word: guatemala
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...journalistic record for coverage and noncoverage. Rarely have supposedly secret preparations gotten so much advance public notice. Then when the pathetically unprepared force stormed ashore, there were no correspondents along; much of the news of the fighting had to be put together from such faraway places as Miami and Guatemala. TIME's Havana correspondent, like the other U.S. newsmen in the Cuban capital, could file nothing: some reporters were rounded up by Castro's security agents; TIME's man found temporary haven in an embassy...
...President Kennedy achieved the unhappy feat of making the U.S. seem both aggressive and weak at the same time. Victory would have brought outcries against "imperialism." but at least it would have been victory. Said a Latin American diplomat to a U.S. diplomat at the U.N.: "You succeeded in Guatemala, and that left a scar. You failed in Cuba, and that will leave a double scar...
Though Dulles, more than his predecessors, has allowed himself to become a public figure, most of the agency's exploits are actually a matter of hearsay. Despite expected denials, CIA was chiefly responsible for toppling Jacobo Arbenz' Red regime in Guatemala in 1954, and privately takes credit for it. It claims to have had advance dope on the British-French-Israeli Suez invasion. It correctly predicted the Hungarian uprising in 1956, directed the U-2 flights over Russia that provided the U.S. with some of its best intelligence on Russia-until they were called off after Pilot Powers...
...Brother of Guatemala's Ambassador...
...main training bases in Guatemala, and at staging bases at Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, and tiny Swan Island off the Honduran coast, fish were already rising. In recent weeks, the equivalent of 50 freight carloads of aerial bombs, rockets, ammunition and firearms was airlifted into Puerto Cabezas by unmarked U.S. C-54s, C-46s and C-47s, in such quantities that on some days last month planes required momentary stacking. During Easter week, 27 U.S. C124 Globemasters roared in three or four at a time to off-load full cargoes of rations, blankets, ammunition and medical supplies at the U.S.-built...