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Guatemalan president Jacobo Arbenz, whose supposed communist inclinations helped trigger OPERATION PBSUCCESS. The move toppled the Arbenz government and provided a good look at how Eisenhower used covert operations to wage the Cold War. |
February 25
Covert Operations
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Guatemalan president Jacobo Arbenz, whose supposed communist inclinations helped trigger OPERATION PBSUCCESS. The move toppled the Arbenz government and provided a good look at how Eisenhower used covert operations to wage the Cold War. |
| Dwight Eisenhower was an old-fashioned Republican in many respects: he believed in the dangers of deficit spending of all types, including on the military. And so his New Look doctrine aimed for a decrease in appropriations for conventional arms and a subsequent increase in funds for nuclear weapons and covert operations. We'll be looking at the effects of two of those operations--in Guatemala and Iran--in today's class. |
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
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Sandwiches for dinner this week; email me your requests and I'll do my best. |
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Want to go to Washington during spring break? Meeting is Wednesday afternoon at 4pm. |
READINGS:
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Nick Cullather, Secret History: The CIA's Classified Account of Its Operations in Guatemala |
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Note: the Cullather book is available at Shakespeare, but--I'm sorry--you can no longer print it out for free on-line--our friends at the CIA removed the link! |
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Gerald Haines, "CIA Assassination Proposals." |
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Reading notes |
DOCUMENTS:
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CIA Assassination Manual: Guatemala (1952) |
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PBSUCCESS: the initial plan (1953) |
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CIA analysis: Guatemala |
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Provocation Plans: Guatemala, June 1954 |