The accts. of the overthrow of Arbenz in such books as the one by Richard
Immerman, "The CIA in Guatemala, " Univ. of Texas Press and the Kinzer and
Schlesinger book, "Bitter Fruit, " (and an out of print book by a CIA agent
in Iran that helped to overthrow Mossedeq, blanking on his name. Interview
footage of him in the Saul Laundau (?) documentary that PBS aired once, "The
Company.") maje these Eisenhower era interventions appear easier to pull off
than later ones, like Chile or Jamaica under Manley. A few planes flew over
Guatemala City and rumours of the USMC about to land en masse led the Arbenz
regime to panic. Castillo Armas was installed shortly after. See the
National Security Archives website for declassified docs on the Guatemala
covert op and for death squad dossiers from G-2, the Guatemalan military
intelligence, with photos, and political party and union affilations of
those killed. Also, the biographer of Eleanor Roosevelt, Blanche Wiesen
Cook, "The Declassified Eisenhower."
Michael Pugliese
