Word: jacobo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Flying Tigers," stayed on after the war to help Chennault organize and run Nationalist China's Civil Air Transport Service, "the most shot at civilian airline in history." Later, as U.S. Ambassador to Honduras, he helped quarterback the 1954 revolution that overthrew the pro-Communist regime of Jacobo Arbenz in neighboring Guatemala...
...programs are the hemisphere Castrophiles, who, in the fashion of World War II's Tokyo Rose and Lord Haw Haw, sometimes outdo even the Cuban Communists. Three times a week, Radio Habana turns its antennas directly at Guatemala for a rabble-rousing half-hour broadcast by Jacobo Arbenz, 48, the Red-lining ex-President of Guatemala who was overthrown eight years ago and now hopes to return via Cuba...
...offended him. In office, though a devious administrator, he gave his country some freedoms it had not known under a previous long line of dictators. The one party he refused to legalize was the Communist-but he did nothing to restrain the Communist clique behind gullible Army Colonel Jacobo Arbenz, who succeeded him as President...
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...
...Intervention. In Castro's Cuba, the New Frontier had a sort of Guatemala (where the U.S. encouraged the coup that ousted left-wing Dictator Jacobo Arbenz in June 1954). At his press conference the President limited U.S. responsibility for the war talk of exiled Cubans eager to see Castro overthrown. "There will not be under any conditions," he said, "an intervention in Cuba by U.S. armed forces." But policymaking New Frontiersmen, convinced that the U.S. will be blamed for any anti-Castro revolt, were prepared to give solid assistance (short of troop support) to ensure that a coup does...