John Peurifoy person
also: P-E-U-R-I-F-O-Y, Purifoy, Purifoy guy, John Parafoy, Ambassador Purifoy, Ambassador Purifloy, Ambassador Parafoy, John Purifoy, Parafoy
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Frank Wisner removed_from_power
John Peurifoy host_asserted
“the Honduran ambassador because he didn't want them staging the attack on Guatemala and housing the dictator that they're going to install there and training his forces in Honduras. So he starts making waves and Frank Wisner picks up the ph…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 56 - 'INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE - WHO ARE THEY' @ 35:09
John Peurifoy member_of
U.S. State Department documented
“started. Dave Phillips checked material for the radio broadcast during a visit with Henry Hexer, who posed as a German businessman. American Ambassador John Purifoy set the tone, and I'll spell his name, P-U-R-P-U-E-R-I-F-O-Y.…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 46:25
John Peurifoy paid
Jacobo Árbenz host_asserted
“tried to bribe Arbenz to fall in line, offering him $2 million in 1954 to stop his land reforms. When that tried and true tactic of winning over or buying Latin dictators did not succeed, Arbenz was physically threatened. And when that too …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 12 @ 40:13
John Peurifoy member_of
Honduras host_asserted
“And to get him in somebody that's more pliable to the overthrow. And the guy, I think his name is P-E-U-R-I-F-O-Y, like Purifoy, something like that, was the ambassador to Honduras. That this, oh, I'm sorry. He went to, the Purifoy guy goes…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 56 - 'INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE - WHO ARE THEY' @ 35:35
John Peurifoy paid
Carlos Díaz host_asserted
“an ultimatum from certain Army officers, resign or they would come to the agreement with the invaders. The CIA and Ambassador Parafoy had been offering payments to officers to defect. The Army commander reportedly accepted $60,000 to surren…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s @ 53:30
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▶ 35:35
And to get him in somebody that's more pliable to the overthrow. And the guy, I think his name is P-E-U-R-I-F-O-Y, like Purifoy, something like that, was the ambassador to Honduras. That this, oh, I'm sorry. He went to, the Purifoy guy goes…
▶ 36:06
went to Honduras. So they fired both of those so that they could stage their coup in border countries. Okay. And you're never going to believe this. This probably could be the mic drop of the night. In the book, In Banks We Trust, it is rev…
▶ 8:31
They also called it an outpost on which the continent, to the detriment of all American nations, would be affected by the scourge of communists in Guatemala. The U.S. ambassador to Guatemala, John Parafoy, P-E-U-R-I-F-O-Y, and…
▶ 15:58
Washington repeatedly and adamantly expressed its displeasure about the presence of communists working in the Guatemalan government. And basically, this Ambassador Purifoy was trying to paint anybody that was not a fascist or pro-American c…
▶ 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…
▶ 53:30
an ultimatum from certain Army officers, resign or they would come to the agreement with the invaders. The CIA and Ambassador Parafoy had been offering payments to officers to defect. The Army commander reportedly accepted $60,000 to surren…
▶ 54:57
was bombed and sunk by a CIA plane after the crew had been warned to get off. It turned out that the ship had come to Guatemala to pick up coffee and cotton. And despite Trujillo's plea repeatedly with the Ambassador Purifoy to call off the…
▶ 57:20
for the incoming regime, told Diaz that he had made a big mistake in taking over the government. Colonel, said Hobbings, you're just not convenient for the requirements of the American foreign policy for Guatemala. Presently, Purifoy confro…
▶ 57:51
A long hit list of leaders requiring Diaz to go shoot them all within 24 hours. But why, Diaz asks. Purifoy tells him, quote, because they're communist, unquote. Although Diaz was not a communist sympathizer, he refused both requests.…
▶ 58:16
and dedicated that the struggle against the invaders would continue. Purifoy left livid, and he then began a cable to the CIA headquarters in Florida. This is an exact quote because it was later declassified. We have been double-crossed, an…
▶ 1:00:38
who was accused by Trujillo of seeking to establish, quote, a banana curtain in Central America, was concerned that some, quote, unquote, communists might escape retribution. In cables he exchanged with Ambassador Purifoy, Dulles insisted t…
▶ 1:05:33
Purifoy, the ambassador, sat before a congressional testimony and here's his quote. My role in Guatemala prior to the revolution was strictly of that of a diplomatic observer. The revolution that overthrew the Arbenz government was engineer…
▶ 12:46
They're one in the same, but we know that they've used them interchangeably. McClintock had served in Indochina during the French War and had long been abiding the interest of the special operation warfare and military operations in gatheri…
▶ 46:25
started. Dave Phillips checked material for the radio broadcast during a visit with Henry Hexer, who posed as a German businessman. American Ambassador John Purifoy set the tone, and I'll spell his name, P-U-R-P-U-E-R-I-F-O-Y.…
▶ 9:36
to suggestions that his own organization was the source. He denied any need for a security review. The U.S. Embassy in Guatemala City kept up unremitting pressure on Arbenz throughout these events. Ambassador Parafoy set the tone in January…
▶ 1:00:27
it had changed the name to Success. So Success was just a continuation of the former operation that was being conducted on United Fruit's own area that Arbenz basically wanted to take back from them, and obviously for good reason. By early …
▶ 1:00:59
I don't know how you say his name, P-E-U-R-I-F-O-Y to Guatemala. He's going to be the coup ambassador. Whiting Willauer's name had already been entered on the list for a security clearance investigation, so he could be sent to Honduras as t…
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Parafoy shows up in 1953. In November, the CIA task force prepared an outline that was divided into five stages. The first stage would be staffing and assessment. By then, it was well along the way. The Guatemala station had been strengthen…
▶ 39:42
beachhead, no Soviets, no communist, but we're going to label it. The Arbenz government foster charge was imposing a communist type reign of terror by unchaining peasants. Ambassador John Purifoy, the Dulles brothers handpicked man in Guate…