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CIA carried_out_attack 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état documented
“The best example that I found is reading State Department cables from actual analysts in Guatemala in the lead up to the 1954 coup that were saying there's no Soviet involvement in Guatemala at all. There's none. And yet there's CIA declass…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 20 @ 1:12:49
Richard Nixon overthrew 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état host_asserted
“The coup that was launched against Mossadegh in Iran, destabilizing that country, and it's still a mess today. He also oversaw the coup in Guatemala while he was vice president. He was a sitting member of the national security staff that di…”
▶ Coyote of Wallstreet - 'THE FALSE FLAG DEFINITION' w Colonel Towner on the DC Shooting 2025-05-25 @ 57:52
Francis Spellman funded 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état host_asserted
“produced 27,000 copies of anti-communist cartoons and posters. I mean, this is an all out affront, but they weren't done yet. And this guy shows up in every one of these stories. Francis Cardinal Spellman, the Archbishop of New York City, w…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s @ 38:09
United Fruit Company funded 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état host_asserted
“that the CIA used to basically have backdoors into privileged communications. And that's how I suspect they were able to do that for the USS Liberty, because Egypt and Jordan both had that system. It allows the CIA to manipulate the message…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s @ 46:17
E. Howard Hunt headed 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état host_asserted
“The primary purpose of the bombing and the many forms of disinformation was to make it appear that the military defenses were crumbling and that any resistance would be futile. And then I already mentioned that all of this psychological war…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s @ 48:30
CIA carried_out_attack 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état documented
“was the 5412 National Security Action Memorandum. It brought the system into sync with this new structure. In his directive, General President Eisenhower, for the first time, gave formal powers to his management mechanism for secret wars. W…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 12 (13) @ 6:12
Dwight D. Eisenhower funded 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état documented
“a vessel moreover belonging to an ally, which we covered last week. To enhance morale, President Eisenhower openly expressed satisfaction to the CIA's Guatemala secret warriors, but privately he determined to get an independent review. Staf…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 12 (13) @ 6:41
Whiting Willauer involved_in 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état host_asserted
“to be the American ambassador to Costa Rica and Honduras. And he is also considered one of the key players in the 1954 operation against Arbenz that we just covered because he was in Honduras, just as a refresher. His specialty was admiralt…”
▶ The Colonel’s CornerSafe for Democracy Part 10 (11) @ 16:57
CIA carried_out_attack 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état book_quoted
“You know, in his book, Confessions of an Economic Hitman. And I'll just read this kind of the paragraph summation. It says, he discusses the 54 CIA-backed coup that overthrew Guatemalan President Jacob Arbenz. Perkins presents this event as…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational AntiCommunism&Cold War Part 7 @ 1:11:50
1954 Guatemalan coup d'état overthrew Jacobo Árbenz book_quoted
“You know, in his book, Confessions of an Economic Hitman. And I'll just read this kind of the paragraph summation. It says, he discusses the 54 CIA-backed coup that overthrew Guatemalan President Jacob Arbenz. Perkins presents this event as…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational AntiCommunism&Cold War Part 7 @ 1:11:50
CIA funded 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état book_quoted
“You know, in his book, Confessions of an Economic Hitman. And I'll just read this kind of the paragraph summation. It says, he discusses the 54 CIA-backed coup that overthrew Guatemalan President Jacob Arbenz. Perkins presents this event as…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational AntiCommunism&Cold War Part 7 @ 1:11:50
United Fruit Company funded 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état book_quoted
“You know, in his book, Confessions of an Economic Hitman. And I'll just read this kind of the paragraph summation. It says, he discusses the 54 CIA-backed coup that overthrew Guatemalan President Jacob Arbenz. Perkins presents this event as…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational AntiCommunism&Cold War Part 7 @ 1:11:50
United Fruit Company funded 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état book_quoted
“And of course, we know the CIA director did not resign. And that's Alan Dulles. And he was directly tied to that because of the representation of United Fruit, who was behind instigating that CIA operation to overthrow the government of Gua…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Hollywood and CIA @ 39:07
CIA funded 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état book_quoted
“And of course, we know the CIA director did not resign. And that's Alan Dulles. And he was directly tied to that because of the representation of United Fruit, who was behind instigating that CIA operation to overthrow the government of Gua…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Hollywood and CIA @ 39:07
Jacob Esterlin headed 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état documented
“and Congress forced it to be closed, they just increased and changed the name of the presence at Fort Benning and continued running their operation. Esterling had never had anything to do with Latin America, yet suddenly found himself the d…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (19) @ 8:00
Anastasio Somoza carried_out_attack 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état book_quoted
“I threw a GD communist out of Guatemala, unquote. And by communist, he's not actually talking about a communist. He's talking about when they overthrew Guatemala and accused the guy of being a communist. He reminded the ambassador, referrin…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 2 @ 1:54
National Security Council overthrew 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état host_asserted
“to do some things with the National Security Council, which, of course, we know what they were doing in 1954 at the National Security Council. They were overthrowing Guatemala. It also says that he worked to interfere with an agreement with…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 11 @ 1:18:19
David Bruce carried_out_attack 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état book_quoted
“David Bruce had somehow retained a relaxed probity, which all but invalidated him for invisible government involvement. It had been Bruce's intervention in the Truman Air move on Arbenz, which is the overthrow, the coup in Guatemala. And no…”
▶ Secret Societies Skull and Bones with War Hamster Brady @ 49:06
CIA carried_out_attack 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état host_asserted
“And so these people are communists and we have to send the CIA in to overthrow the government, a duly elected government, a democratically elected government. And so I don't care that some analysts in the CIA may be doing good work. I don't…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 6 @ 1:10:06
CIA covered_up 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état host_asserted
“ridiculous and untrue, unquote, because they're liars, and said it would not comment any further because did not wish to give dignity. It was not deserved. Another spokesman said, quote, it is the policy of the U.S. not to interfere in the …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s @ 40:59
CIA covered_up 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état host_asserted
“He was convinced that the struggle against the oligarchic system and the main enemy, Yankee imperialism, must be an armed one, supported by the people, unquote. In the wake of the coup, the United States confiscated a huge amount of documen…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s @ 1:03:08
National Security Council ordered_assassination_of 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état host_asserted
“The intelligent estimates that were being fed to the National Security Council to get the findings to go in and overthrow the government actually took that information and said it was because they were all communist. They want a communist g…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 6 @ 1:09:38
United Fruit Company funded 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état host_asserted
“That's not what it does. That's not what it's ever done. Now, do they do that at some level? Yes, the lower level. But here's what happens. Like what we saw in Guatemala with declassified State Department cables. You had analysts, some of w…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 6 @ 1:08:40
United Fruit Company benefited_from 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état guest_asserted
“indicate that many of the analysts were saying he's not a communist. He may be a socialist, but he's not a communist. And this happened repeatedly. Guatemala, the coup in Guatemala back in the 1950s, was done on behalf of United Fruit. Unit…”
▶ Colonel Towner WATKINS JOINS THE REVIVAL OF AMERICA 5 pm PST @ 15:24

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Colonel Towner WATKINS JOINS THE REVIVAL OF AMERICA 5 pm PST
▶ 15:24 indicate that many of the analysts were saying he's not a communist. He may be a socialist, but he's not a communist. And this happened repeatedly. Guatemala, the coup in Guatemala back in the 1950s, was done on behalf of United Fruit. Unit…
Coyote of Wallstreet - 'THE FALSE FLAG DEFINITION' w Colonel Towner on the DC Shooting 2025-05-25
▶ 57:52 The coup that was launched against Mossadegh in Iran, destabilizing that country, and it's still a mess today. He also oversaw the coup in Guatemala while he was vice president. He was a sitting member of the national security staff that di…
OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 56 - 'INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE - WHO ARE THEY'
▶ 34:37 Will Aulner. It's spelled W-I-L-L-A-U-N-E-R. He goes on to become, actually, he was specifically appointed ambassador during 1953 Guatemala coup by the CIA. This Will Aulner guy who buds with this attorney, they fire,…
Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s
▶ 4:45 Well, it wasn't even the first coup, but the first coup that led to many others in the more recent past, and that was in 1953 through 1954. And I'm going to say this up front because I want you to ingest all of this information in this rega…
Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s
▶ 8:03 John Foster Dulles, asserted that Guatemalans were living under a quote-unquote communist type of terrorism, which of course was not true. Eisenhower also warned about a quote communist dictatorship unquote. So this again is all the propaga…
Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s
▶ 10:56 knew exactly what the U.S. was trying to do in blaming them for something that the U.S. was about to do. And you still see, as Liza always points out, the patterns of recognition. You see that whoever the U.S. accuses of doing something is …
Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s
▶ 15:09 The State Department group occupied with planning Arbin's overthrow concluded that propaganda concerning Guatemala's U.N. record would, quote, would not be particularly helpful in our case, unquote, because they voted lock, stock, and barre…
Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s
▶ 21:50 on its head and said he was a communist who just was using the nationalist sentiment in his country to take advantage of it. The first plan to topple Arbenz was a CIA operation approved by Truman in 1952, but at the 11th hour, the Secretary…
Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s
▶ 25:38 She was Eisenhower's personal secretary. Under Secretary of State and former director of the CIA, Walter Bedell Smith was seeking an executive position with United Front. At the same time, he planned the coup. He was later named to the comp…
Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s
▶ 29:24 United Fruits board members over the years. That's the syndicate. And the CIA operated as its paramilitary capability. So Eisenhower administration resolved to do the job right the next time that they tried to coup him. It had been almost a…
Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s
▶ 35:41 All this while Ambassador Purifloy and a group of high-ranking officers called upon Arbenz to ask that he dismiss all communists from posts of the administration. The president assured them that the communists did not represent a danger, th…
Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s
▶ 36:10 labor representatives and low labor relation facets of his government. At a second meeting, the officers also demanded that Arbenz reject the creation of a people's militia, which he wasn't even the one that was trying to create that. At on…
Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s
▶ 36:42 He refused. On the economic front, contingency plans were made to cut Guatemala off from everything. No credit, no oil supply, no food. And all of that would then, in their hopes, cause a run on any foreign reserves that Guatemala had in ot…
Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s
▶ 37:11 The U.S. Information Agency, which is USIA, which is another CIA propaganda thing that has showed up in many of these coups, it began to place unattributed articles, anonymous, labeling different parts of the Guatemalan government officials…
Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s
▶ 37:40 In a very short period of time that was positioned throughout all of Latin America, calling him a communist. And it just feeds on itself. So you also had the information agency distributed more than 100,000 copies of pamphlets entitled Chro…
Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s
▶ 38:09 produced 27,000 copies of anti-communist cartoons and posters. I mean, this is an all out affront, but they weren't done yet. And this guy shows up in every one of these stories. Francis Cardinal Spellman, the Archbishop of New York City, w…
Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s
▶ 38:38 to help with the propaganda because these countries are primarily Catholic. What he said mattered. So, the CIA goes to see him and he was asked if he would help and he said he'd be delighted. Thus, on 9 April 1954,…
Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s
▶ 39:01 A letter was written to Guatemalan Catholic churches calling to attention of every congregation the presence of the devil called communism and demanding people rise up against the single man responsible for bringing communism, i.e. the devi…
Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s
▶ 39:32 Congress Against Soviet Intervention in Latin America, and it was hosted in Mexico City. That same month, Somoza called in the diplomatic corps in Nicaragua and told them his voice was shaking with anger that his police had discovered a sec…
Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s
▶ 40:03 covert in order to get into Guatemala. In January 1954, the operation appeared to have suffered a serious setback when copies of the liberation documents found their way into Arben's hands. A few days later, Guatemala's newspaper published …
Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s
▶ 40:30 the guy the CIA is using, his last name is A-R-M-A-S, and also signed by Somoza and others, the documents revealed the existence of staging training invasion plans involving the U.S. government. The State Department labeled the accusations …
Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s
▶ 40:59 ridiculous and untrue, unquote, because they're liars, and said it would not comment any further because did not wish to give dignity. It was not deserved. Another spokesman said, quote, it is the policy of the U.S. not to interfere in the …
Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s
▶ 41:19 Internal affairs of other nations. This policy has repeatedly been reaffirmed under the present administration, unquote. And how anybody can say that with a straight face is I mean, at this point, it's blatantly ridiculous. We've intervened…
Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s
▶ 41:50 gave no credence. And Understand Time magazine, as we all know, is a CIA propaganda outfit, too. They gave no credence whatsoever to the possibility of America's involvement in the plot, concluding that the whole expose had been masterminde…
Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s
▶ 42:18 But its story gave no indication that there might be any truth to the matter. They're a little more subtle than time. Here's their quote. Latin America observers in New York said that the plot charges of communist influence, unquote. This a…
Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s
▶ 42:49 Guatemala Confederation opens its Congress, period, inferring there's communists in the Guatemala Congress. And then, of course, the CIA continued making its arrangements. The offensive began in earnest on 18 June with planes dropping leafl…
Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s
▶ 43:19 The CIA radio stations began broadcasting messages and jamming other peaceful civilian broadcasts. Over the following week, air attacks continued daily. They began strafing and bombing ports, fuel tanks, ammo dumps, military barracks, inter…
Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s
▶ 43:46 Nine persons, including a three-year-old girl, were shot and wounded, and an unknown number of houses were caught on fire by dropping napalm. During one nighttime raid, a tape recording of a bomb attack was played over the loudspeakers from…
Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies (Bush family) with War Hamster Brady
▶ 1:28:05 When he was 30, he was a sewer contractor, somehow bought into a bunch of Honduran paper mills, ended up selling them to Clint Merkelson Jr. And in 1952, that land that he had the paper mills in Honduras were where they staged the 1952 Unit…
Secret Societies Skull and Bones with War Hamster Brady
▶ 49:06 David Bruce had somehow retained a relaxed probity, which all but invalidated him for invisible government involvement. It had been Bruce's intervention in the Truman Air move on Arbenz, which is the overthrow, the coup in Guatemala. And no…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 2
▶ 1:54 I threw a GD communist out of Guatemala, unquote. And by communist, he's not actually talking about a communist. He's talking about when they overthrew Guatemala and accused the guy of being a communist. He reminded the ambassador, referrin…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 11
▶ 1:17:49 And it says that he created his own association under the guise of a private investigative firm in Washington, D.C., you know, where the CIA is. And he is linked to, let's see, under the CIA work, it says that he was summoned to then Vice P…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 3 by Gary Webb
▶ 41:26 Bermudez would move there and become their commander. They were actually a terrorist group. Made up mostly of former National Guard officers who had escaped from Nicaragua at the end of the war, the Legionnaires had a safe house in Guatemal…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 6
▶ 1:08:40 That's not what it does. That's not what it's ever done. Now, do they do that at some level? Yes, the lower level. But here's what happens. Like what we saw in Guatemala with declassified State Department cables. You had analysts, some of w…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 6
▶ 1:09:38 The intelligent estimates that were being fed to the National Security Council to get the findings to go in and overthrow the government actually took that information and said it was because they were all communist. They want a communist g…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 6
▶ 1:10:06 And so these people are communists and we have to send the CIA in to overthrow the government, a duly elected government, a democratically elected government. And so I don't care that some analysts in the CIA may be doing good work. I don't…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 6
▶ 1:10:37 line them all up and say, you're the good guy, you're the bad guy. The entire institution has been corrupted. And so then what they do is they pass off this estimate, which is totally fake, to the covert side, and they gin up a team to send…
The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 a
▶ 22:25 keeping up with American policy on Iran. Why would that matter in 1951? Because we go in and overthrow it in 1953. What the State Department did in this affair would be a guide to what might or might not do to one of his clients, United Fru…
The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 a
▶ 22:54 in Iran, and we did it in Guatemala. And they were both basically the same thing. It was a company, in the case of Iran, BP, from the UK, that got kicked out, and Guatemala kicked United Fruit out. And they just gather the wagons and go in …
The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 a
▶ 23:24 Chanel's partner, Whiting Willauer, W-I-L-L-A-U-E-R, went from civil air transport to be the U.S. ambassador in Honduras, which, of course, is right next door and where they launched all the operations for Guatemala from, where he helped Un…
The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 a
▶ 24:23 $1.8 million, and as they considered me to be his heir, they held me responsible for the payment. In 1960, while Willauer, a United Fruit official, and Civil Air Transport pilots were participating in the CIA's preparation for the Bay of Pi…
The Colonel's Corner Hollywood and CIA
▶ 38:37 and not the people that they're attacking. Psychological operations. The Good Shepherd further distorted history by making it seem like the agency supported denazification when it recruited the Nazis for the Cold War. It also was depicting …
The Colonel's Corner Hollywood and CIA
▶ 39:07 And of course, we know the CIA director did not resign. And that's Alan Dulles. And he was directly tied to that because of the representation of United Fruit, who was behind instigating that CIA operation to overthrow the government of Gua…
The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 21
▶ 45:05 100% William Polly was intelligent. 100%. Yeah. So Ball purchased Talisman Sugar Company from William Polly. In fact, it was William Polly who had helped transform the airline company into CIA's Civil Air Transport, the umbrella company for…
The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 9
▶ 43:22 One of Jenkins' first assignments with the CIA was in the 1954 coup in Guatemala. Jenkins and his helicopter company in Guatemala were also customers of commercial helicopters in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. This company got most of its financin…
The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 9
▶ 50:45 North discussed a Cuban-American, Sergio Brule, who is associated with the CIA, Contra drug dealer, Ron Martin, who in turn reported doing business with Corson. Next, a CIA agent, Carl Jenkins, who had worked in the agency's 1954 Guatemalan…
The Colonel’s CornerSafe for Democracy Part 10 (11)
▶ 16:57 to be the American ambassador to Costa Rica and Honduras. And he is also considered one of the key players in the 1954 operation against Arbenz that we just covered because he was in Honduras, just as a refresher. His specialty was admiralt…
The Colonel’s CornerSafe for Democracy Part 10 (11)
▶ 17:24 because of the Boston Brahmins and the maritime monopoly. That's also where United Fruit was. And remember, he was involved in the United Fruit Guatemalan coup. So this is one of the main players in the beginning of the CIA. Also, so there …
The Colonel’s CornerSafe for Democracy Part 10 (11)
▶ 19:18 preceding that he goes on after his success in setting up this entire opium network to his prize for doing what we're about to talk about was getting an ambassadorship to Guatemala well actually Honduras and then orchestrating the Guatemala…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 12 (13)
▶ 4:44 The president did this even while Indochina and Guatemala ventures were in progress. President Eisenhower began his quest for a new system for covert operations in 1954 when Ajax shone as the CIA's crowning achievement. You know, the overth…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 12 (13)
▶ 7:10 President Eisenhower's final instructions in a letter on July 26, 1954, three days before his White House reception for the members involved in the coup of Guatemala, asked for a comprehensive review of the factors involved, the personnel, …
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 12 (13)
▶ 9:33 on a review panel to evaluate the covert overthrow of the Guatemalan government, along with General Doolittle. Doolittle's committee held its first meeting at CIA headquarters on July 14th. It received extensive briefings from the agency, f…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (19)
▶ 6:58 He was recalled into service during the Korean conflict. He had been noticed among the names of assignment list by Ray Pierce, who had him seconded to the CIA. The agency used Esterlin at its Fort Benning training camp, then sent him to the…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (19)
▶ 8:00 and Congress forced it to be closed, they just increased and changed the name of the presence at Fort Benning and continued running their operation. Esterling had never had anything to do with Latin America, yet suddenly found himself the d…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (19)
▶ 34:03 Gray reminded the president of what Allen Dulles had proposed, then reported the current thinking about the timetable and events. Weeks later, with Eisenhower at Newport, Rhode Island, Gray told him of a fresh CIA bid to expand the exile fo…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 (23)
▶ 20:26 No one told the CIA it should forget about the invasion. Typical of Congress. How could the president interpret the conflicting reports that had reached him? In the Oval Office, one day, Kennedy turned to Dulles, asking him about the odds. …
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 36 (38)
▶ 6:27 At the CIA station in Chilean's capital, Hexter had been replaced by Raymond Warren about a month later after this initial stuff was happening. Quite familiar with Chile, where he had spent five years in the 50s, Ray Warren had worked in la…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 12
▶ 15:47 as the vehicle actually transporting the Arbenz family was blown up. That was meant for Arbenz. Howard Hunt, one of the principal CIA orchestrators of the Guatemalan coup, later acknowledged that he had helped organize the hostile send-off …
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 12
▶ 28:31 Maria Arbenz always believed that he was assassinated. In later years, it was revealed that the CIA had compiled a list of assassination targets during the planning for the 1954 coup. Arbenz family was convinced that the agency was still wo…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 12
▶ 40:43 They just started arranging a coup. The CIA found a disgruntled exiled Guatemalan colonel named Carlos Castillo Armez, who was working as a furniture salesman in Honduras at the time, to lead the uprising. His revolutionary army turned out …
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 12
▶ 42:38 As he signed off, Arbenz declared with certainty that despite his personal downfall, the cause of progress in Guatemala would triumph. The social accomplishments of the past few years, he insisted, could not be undone. History would prove h…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 12
▶ 44:10 afterward eisenhower ever the soldier asked dallas how many men he had lost dallas told him just one the president said incredible but the real body count in guatemala started after the invasion when the cia-backed regime of castillo armez …
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 12
▶ 45:03 as well as death squads. They massacred entire villages. By the time the bloodletting had run its course, four decades later, over 250,000 people had been killed in a population of less than 4 million. The U.S. press coverage of Guatemala c…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 12
▶ 47:01 But in truth, Guatemala was devastating. The murderous intrigue began long before the actual coup. As early as January 1952, the CIA had started planning to eliminate top officials of the Arbenz government. Howard Hunt might have wanted to …
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 12
▶ 47:33 58 Guatemalan leaders during the planning for the coup. The assassination memo was among several documents relating to the 1954 coup that the CIA released in 1997 during one of the agency's occasional exercises in carefully managed openness…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 12
▶ 48:00 Still, the documents were revealing enough to send shockwaves into the international press. In one of the declassified documents, an unnamed CIA official expressed his confidence on the eve of the Guatemalan coup that the elimination of tho…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 12
▶ 58:15 Beginning with a review of the political and economic and social forces that led to the Arbenz presidency in 1951, the document is an intimate account of how the Cold War concerns convinced President Eisenhower to order the removal of the d…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 12
▶ 59:14 and his senior covert planners into a formal briefing of the operation. Collather's account reveals that the agency lied to the president, telling him that, oh, only one rebel was actually killed. Incredible, the president said, and thus, a…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 12
▶ 59:45 explains and became the model for future CIA activities in Latin America. In Guatemala, last couple sentences, of course, Operation Success had deadly aftermath. After a small insurgency developed in the wake of the coup, the Guatemalan mil…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 20
▶ 1:12:49 The best example that I found is reading State Department cables from actual analysts in Guatemala in the lead up to the 1954 coup that were saying there's no Soviet involvement in Guatemala at all. There's none. And yet there's CIA declass…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 20
▶ 1:13:48 That stuff is what is being investigated in the Florida grand juries right this second. And we've got, we've got the smoking guns on that. Yeah. You know, that is public information at this point in time. Yes. So, so it's, I mean, it goes, …
The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 6
▶ 1:09:35 And I was just going over for our other project, the Guatemala coup. And people get fatigued from the constant state of terror. And if the government they're very sympathetic to their government when they're when it first happens, because t…
The Colonel’s Corner Transnational AntiCommunism&Cold War Part 7
▶ 1:11:50 You know, in his book, Confessions of an Economic Hitman. And I'll just read this kind of the paragraph summation. It says, he discusses the 54 CIA-backed coup that overthrew Guatemalan President Jacob Arbenz. Perkins presents this event as…
The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 5
▶ 1:26:05 that Gladio was being set up, Nixon was vice president. Nixon was in all of the Security Council meetings. Nixon was there when they gave the order to kill Lubamba. Nixon was there when they were doing the Guatemala thing. Nixon was involve…