Carlos Castillo Armas person
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Claims (32)
CIA supplied_arms_to
Carlos Castillo Armas book_quoted
“Assorted Latin Americans and American soldiers of fortune were training in CIA camps in Nicaragua and the Panama Canal Zone. Arms and equipment now arrived in a steady stream aboard U.S. Air Force C-124 transports borrowed by the CIA, with …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 10 @ 17:43
CIA funded
Carlos Castillo Armas book_quoted
“Always project onto others what you're doing. In El Salvador, a Castillo Armas-directed immigrant publication also received CIA money. Agency press assets throughout Central America began planting stories designed for psychological programm…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 10 @ 13:37
CIA installed
Carlos Castillo Armas documented
“and have paid taxes on for years of the entire swath of land, which was a million dollars. And United Fruit just picked up their old lawyer's phone, Alan Dulles and John Foster Dulles, and said, hey, get your boys down here, which is exactl…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 10 @ 32:18
CIA funded
Carlos Castillo Armas host_asserted
“Castillo Armas had been groomed by the United States and the CIA, and this was not going to be a negotiable point. The CIA official, E-N-N-O Hobbing, H-O-B-B-I-N-G, who had just arrived in Guatemala to help draft a new constitution. You see…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s @ 56:51
Carlos Castillo Armas carried_out_attack
Guatemala documented
“rebel troops, most of them not from Guatemala. Castillo Armas advanced to a church six miles inside Guatemala and halted. He awaited a popular revolution that was supposed to support him. From there, the main force would march over land and…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 10 @ 46:18
Sullivan & Cromwell financed_via
Carlos Castillo Armas book_quoted
“Castillo Armas, as president of Guatemala, tells how a retired executive of United Fruit tried to recruit him for the coup and how, when in office, a Washington law firm told him, we had financed the liberation movement, quote unquote, of C…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 a @ 23:55
CIA recruited
Carlos Castillo Armas documented
“The CIA went first to the candidate who was defeated by Arbenz in the 1950 election, Miguel Fuentes. He had already been approached by United Fruit, but was not interested because the United Fruit was already very busy down there. Then Amer…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 47:20
Carlos Castillo Armas attempted_coup_against
Jacobo Árbenz documented
“The CIA went first to the candidate who was defeated by Arbenz in the 1950 election, Miguel Fuentes. He had already been approached by United Fruit, but was not interested because the United Fruit was already very busy down there. Then Amer…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 47:20
Carlos Castillo Armas member_of
CIA documented
“staged in 1959 to overthrow the government. Joining the CIA, Castillo Armas issued a declaration from Honduras in December 1953 that he was going to liberate Guatemala from that dreaded democratically elected government. When the Guatemalan…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 47:51
Anastasio Somoza supplied_arms_to
Carlos Castillo Armas documented
“They even took to dropping empty Coke bottles because it made like, they were like water and it made like a big explosion and they wanted people to think that they were actually bombed. Haney reported that Nicaraguan dictator, Taco Somoza,…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 58:14
Dwight D. Eisenhower supplied_arms_to
Carlos Castillo Armas documented
“The state assistant secretary entered the office carrying several legal big stacks of paper. The president turned to Alan Dulles. What do you think Castillo's chance is without aircraft? Dulles said zero. Suppose we supply the aircraft, Eis…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 59:08
Carlos Castillo Armas spied_on
Girola documented
“Garola, he could not believe that the Justice Department announced a plea deal with a smuggler. The punishment simply does not fit the crime. I don't know what you were up to, but this conduct cannot be tolerated, the judge said. Less than …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 14 @ 38:57
Carlos Castillo Armas exposed
Girola documented
“Girola zoom in and out of the airbase hauling drugs and carrying cash to the Bahamas and flashing credentials of the Salvadoran Air Force and the president's office. When I ran Girola's name in the computer, it popped up with 11 DEA files d…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 14 @ 39:23
Carlos Castillo Armas spied_on
Carlos Amador documented
“was intending to fly into Ilopango, pick up cocaine at hangar number four, and take it to Miami. Armador would be carrying San Salvadoran government identification, which got him through customs and any inspections. Castillo was asked to in…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 14 @ 40:57
CIA recruited
Carlos Castillo Armas documented
“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 @ 40:43
CIA installed
Carlos Castillo Armas documented
“As soon as the dictator, Castillo Armas, was installed in the presidential palace, the CIA began pressuring him to purge Guatemala of Arben supporters. His army rounded up some 4,000 suspected quote-unquote communists, even though they were…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 12 @ 50:46
Carlos Castillo Armas ordered_assassination_of
Guatemala documented
“would do everything in his power to purify Guatemala of those thoughts. The CIA, enamored of making ominous lists, helped the new regime assemble a list of subversives that soon grew to 70,000 names. This is exactly what they did in Vietnam…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 12 @ 51:43
United States covered_up
Carlos Castillo Armas host_asserted
“Armez consolidated his reign, the CIA's energetic support, the U.S. Embassy in Guatemala City continued to cover up the regime, insisting that there was little basis for apprehension that the country was a police state, while they watch it …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 12 @ 53:45
Jorge Prieto Laurens funded
Carlos Castillo Armas book_quoted
“Guatemalan General Castillo Armas and Miguel Fuentes, promising them financial and material aid to overthrow the democratically elected government of Jacobo Arbenz. When Pristo Lorenz was offering his support to the generals plotting the Gu…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Revolutionaries for the Right Part 4 @ 16:46
Carlos Castillo Armas overthrew
Jacobo Árbenz book_quoted
“When the coup in Guatemala succeeded in June of 1954, you know, like the next month. However, the CIA began looking cross-eyed at Prito Lorenz. And without funds from the U.S. government, he looked to Brazil to form a close relationship wit…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Revolutionaries for the Right Part 4 @ 18:48
CIA recruited
Carlos Castillo Armas book_quoted
“They were all stationed in Nicaragua, Honduras, and the Panama Canal Zone, which, of course, is all of the places Nicaragua had already been taken over. So had Honduras and Panama. We had all the military bases down there, which they did a …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s @ 31:49
CIA supplied_arms_to
Carlos Castillo Armas book_quoted
“campaigned to label him a communist. In March 1953, the CIA approached disgruntled right-wing officers in the Guatemalan army and arranged to send them arms. United Fruit donated $64,000, this is in 1953, to buy weapons to undermine the gov…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s @ 28:08
CIA supplied_arms_to
Carlos Castillo Armas host_asserted
“inducing defections. Project headquarters would move to the field and cooperation agreements would be reached with Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador. The initial delivery of 15 tons, tons of equipment, meaning arms, for Castillo Armas ha…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner safe for Democracy Part 9 @ 1:02:27
Pat Robertson supplied_arms_to
Carlos Castillo Armas book_quoted
“It had, however, received some support from the Arbenz predecessor as president of Guatemala. The CIA propagandists now made strenuous efforts to pin all of that on Arbenz, even though he had nothing to do with it. Behind the scenes, Rip Ro…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 10 @ 25:18
Rafael Trujillo supplied_arms_to
Carlos Castillo Armas book_quoted
“Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, which could later be used as an answer to the questions of where all those guns came from, which is why it's so important that they control the countries around the target. So if we get caught, we'…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 10 @ 32:58
CIA recruited
Carlos Castillo Armas documented
“The final plan based the rebels in Honduras, Castillo Armas, made his invasion two days later. Riding in an old station wagon accompanied by a few trucks, only about 140 soldiers were with him. Those several additional forces entered Guatem…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 10 @ 45:23
CIA supplied_arms_to
Carlos Castillo Armas host_asserted
“had crossed into the agency, meaning the CIA, had crossed into Guatemala from Honduras. Now, let me point out something to you guys. I keep going back to this guy. You remember when I exposed Felix Rodriguez? He's one of the guys, the CIA g…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s @ 44:18
CIA recruited
Carlos Castillo Armas host_asserted
“Weird! The first key meeting on Guatemala's project took place in Frank Wisner's office around Labor Day of 1953. Barnes and J.C. King of the Western Hemisphere Division went over all of the existing networks and operations in Central Ameri…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner safe for Democracy Part 9 @ 41:16
CIA trained
Carlos Castillo Armas book_quoted
“had leased his country out to be an airstrip for several of the people that were going to be infiltrating Guatemala. They also took advantage of several Guatemalan exiles in the US that had been part of previous coups on behalf of the CIA a…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s @ 30:50
CIA trained
Carlos Castillo Armas book_quoted
“Central American mercenaries that they had sent through the School of Americas that were already operating in other countries that they had installed fascist dictators in. So they began receiving training at Apalaca in the use of weapons, h…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s @ 31:21
Anti-Communist Popular Front installed
Carlos Castillo Armas book_quoted
“that they then use as propaganda to overthrow him. The Congress was used as a show of support for Colonel Castillo Armas, A-R-M-A-S. Declassified documents confirm the leading role of the CIA in the Congress. The follow-up events were held …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational AntiCommunism&Cold War Part 7 @ 32:19
Carlos Castillo Armas assassinated
Jacobo Árbenz speculative
“or if any, of the 58 prominent Guatemalans were eventually assassinated. We know Arbenz's name's on it, so it's not actually too far to stretch to think that his name never came off that list. But what is known is that by training and encou…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 12 @ 50:15
Mentions (65)
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that were going to assemble in Honduras under the command of a Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas, A-R-M-A-S, before crossing into Guatemala. They used Soviet marked weapons in order to plant them inside Guatemala before the invasion to make cha…
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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 …
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but the army officers blocked the distribution of weapons. The Guatemalan president knew that war was near. The Voice of Liberation, the CIA, meanwhile was proclaiming that two large and heavily armed columns were progressing on Guatemala C…
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that the United States was or could be a party to any of it. The Castillo Armas forces could not have defeated the much larger Guatemalan army, but the air attacks combined with the belief that there was an invincible enemy on its way made …
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No communist, domestic or foreign, came to his aid. He asked the head of the officers, Army Chief of Staff, Colonel Carlos Diaz, only that he give his word not to negotiate with Castillo Armas, and Diaz, who despised the rebel commander as …
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Castillo Armas had been groomed by the United States and the CIA, and this was not going to be a negotiable point. The CIA official, E-N-N-O Hobbing, H-O-B-B-I-N-G, who had just arrived in Guatemala to help draft a new constitution. You see…
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Within hours, a CIA plane had taken off from Honduras, bombed a military base, and destroyed the government radio station. Colonel Castillo Armas, whose anti-communism the U.S. could trust, was soon to be the new leader of Guatemala. The pr…
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Charges such as having that they were covert Moscow agents, even though, again, the State Department knows none of this is true. They also argued that they should automatically be shot. The only way that they could be allowed to leave, he a…
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what this author calls right wing groups at a Mexican, at many Mexican universities. Frito Lorenz believed that his country elected leaders that were blind to the spread of international communism in the Americas. In other words, he's just …
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Garola, he could not believe that the Justice Department announced a plea deal with a smuggler. The punishment simply does not fit the crime. I don't know what you were up to, but this conduct cannot be tolerated, the judge said. Less than …
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Girola zoom in and out of the airbase hauling drugs and carrying cash to the Bahamas and flashing credentials of the Salvadoran Air Force and the president's office. When I ran Girola's name in the computer, it popped up with 11 DEA files d…
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In response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed in 1997, the Customs Service claimed it could not locate any records of him at all. Castillo said that in January 1986, he began firing off a string of reports to DEA headquarters in…
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was intending to fly into Ilopango, pick up cocaine at hangar number four, and take it to Miami. Armador would be carrying San Salvadoran government identification, which got him through customs and any inspections. Castillo was asked to in…
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As Castillo would soon realize, that was easier said than done. He was about to plunge headlong into the darkness of one of the Reagan administration's most secret operations. A clandestine activity that Reagan privately predicted would res…
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Excited that his investigation had finally started to bear fruit, Castillo drove to El Salvador to tell his informants that the Salvadoran narcotic police and give the Salvadoran narcotics police the good news. He now had independent confir…
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And then all of those same entities have people deployed forward in Costa Rica, in Colombia, in El Salvador. Every single one of them, with the exception of a couple, this guy here, Castillo, were corrupt. And then the poor guy, he's writin…
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And we're going to find out why. But it wasn't from lack of trying on the streets. SR, go ahead. Thank you, Colonel. Just want to thank everybody for attending the day in spaces on Rumble. I did want to note that Castillo also wrote a book …
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And his his information we're going to find out later on is he had been dealing with Gary Webb. So Gary Webb, one of the very first things he did in his investigation was to contact Castile after his name came up in some reports. And he fou…
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Could we ask you to please not print anything until we've talked again? Can you give me a week? I told him I'd wait for his call. When Gary returned to Sacramento, he phoned a former DEA agent, Castillo, the guy that was down in El Salvador…
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He's one of the people in the DEA sent to Guatemala to do the internal investigation of me. He said Creighton and another DEA official had ordered him to put the word alleged in his reports to Washington about the Contra drug shipments from…
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I told him of Creighton's remarks that there was no proof the Contras was involved in drugs. He laughed. Oh, that's bullshit. Of all people, he knows perfectly well what was going on. He was reading every one of my reports. He was reading t…
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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…
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Castillo Armas, as president of Guatemala, tells how a retired executive of United Fruit tried to recruit him for the coup and how, when in office, a Washington law firm told him, we had financed the liberation movement, quote unquote, of C…
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and he established Norman Armour as the U.S. ambassador and sought to support the new military dictatorship of Castillo Armas. So Mann is deciding who's going to be in charge of ambassadors in their newly created military dictatorships. He …
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Being involved in the overthrow of the Guatemalan government, given basically veto power over any Guatemalan policy after a new oil law was proposed in Guatemala, he basically said no. And Armas said that unless man agreed, he couldn't do i…
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The CIA went first to the candidate who was defeated by Arbenz in the 1950 election, Miguel Fuentes. He had already been approached by United Fruit, but was not interested because the United Fruit was already very busy down there. Then Amer…
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staged in 1959 to overthrow the government. Joining the CIA, Castillo Armas issued a declaration from Honduras in December 1953 that he was going to liberate Guatemala from that dreaded democratically elected government. When the Guatemalan…
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Armas, a guy by the name of Dia de Arras, and Somoza, the guy over in Nicaragua, about their plans and referring to their friends up north, which was the CIA. This material was released to the Guatemalan press in January. The charge that th…
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was termed absolutely ridiculous without any basis in fact at all by the State Department. At that moment that they're denying it, there's a barn in Honduras that was housing the clandestine radio Voice of Liberation for the black propagand…
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Diction was like a scandal. And it basically led to the first military action of Operation Success. CIA paramilitary man William Rip Robertson wanted to go to the port city with frogmen and sink the Swedish ship with explosives. Yes, that's…
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had offered two of his P-51 fighter bombers to replace the rebel losses, but only if the U.S. would itself replace Nicaragua's aircraft. This sounded like a simple expedient until the State Department for Latin America insisted they get an …
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that the Nicaraguan dictator, Somoza, was going to be able to uphold his end of the bargain. And J.C. King wanted to use the first arms delivery to Castillo Armez, based in Nicaragua, to deepen Somoza's commitment. Another part of the plan …
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when Dulles' man went to Florida on his ever more numerous visits to this command post. In Mounting Fury, King complained that Haney considered himself directly under Dulles and that psychological warfare had been critically slowed by obstr…
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Delgado gave the government copies of correspondence between the rebel leader and others, including Somoza. And for several months, he acted as a double agent, furnishing the Arbenz people more data. Delgado was present, for example, on Jan…
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The Guatemalans arrested an individual who was the principal link between Castillo Armas and the supposed internal opposition. This internal front happened to be notional, essentially non-existent, but the agent network was real. The Arbenz…
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to other Central American governments and turned it into a white paper released to condemn American intervention. The CIA went into high gear to neutralize this, attempting to paint Delgado as a liar. Meanwhile, Castillo Armas pulled in to …
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Always project onto others what you're doing. In El Salvador, a Castillo Armas-directed immigrant publication also received CIA money. Agency press assets throughout Central America began planting stories designed for psychological programm…
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That's why you hired the guy that runs your proprietary airline because you didn't think he was going to be involved operationally. The State Department publicly termed the charge that Americans had a role in the Castillo Armas plans ridicu…
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Little could be done other than to try to send more messages by courier or pouch. Not possible when it was urgent. That eventuality arose almost immediately. Leaving his apartment one day, Castillo Armas, lieutenant, left behind a batch of …
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of arms and equipment were delivered. Agency officers increasingly distrusted Castillo Armas, explored another structure that would exclude him. Cost estimates for the Sherwood Radio Project had firmed up to the degree that Al Haney decided…
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On March 16th, Frank Wisner met with Richard Helms, Tracy Barnes, and J.C. King and others for a high-level review. Haney warned that delaying D-Day would cause morale problems and weather difficulties. Wisner saw no need to change the ops …
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in a paper refocusing the operation. In retrospect, his handiwork is notable for its utter misappreciation of Guatemalans' willingness to rise against Arbenz, while rightly rejecting Castillo Armas' estimates of 40,000 adherents. Wisner pro…
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The final plan based the rebels in Honduras, Castillo Armas, made his invasion two days later. Riding in an old station wagon accompanied by a few trucks, only about 140 soldiers were with him. Those several additional forces entered Guatem…
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rebel troops, most of them not from Guatemala. Castillo Armas advanced to a church six miles inside Guatemala and halted. He awaited a popular revolution that was supposed to support him. From there, the main force would march over land and…
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while several boatloads of men made for the Caribbean port of Porto Barrios. Both places, plus Guatemala City, would be bombed by the CIA. But no popular uprising appeared. Castillo Armas did not march even the few miles to Zacapa. Another …
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was also an insignificant battle, proved no better than a standoff. The seaborne force sent to capture Porto Barrios also failed. The CIA's optimistic approach didn't seem to be working out. It was reported to President Eisenhower on June 2…
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On late afternoon of June 22nd, Eisenhower met Allen and Foster Dulles at the White House. Henry Holland entered the office carrying several legal papers, but legality had ceased to even be an issue. The president turned to Allen Dulles. Wh…
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undermining loyalty to the president. At the same time, the CIA would provide its own alternative, supposedly an independent force, under a former army officer, Colonel Carlos Castillo Armez. A CIA air force would bomb as necessary and drop…
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they would convey the impression that there was mass support for this movement that didn't exist. The concept envisioned the army defecting to Castillo Armas as his rebel forces entered Guatemala. In effect, the CIA's paper argued the task …
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The readiness of diplomats to work with the spooks was even more crucial. The CIA-state relationship also lay at the heart of the project where Nicaragua was concerned. There, the CIA would have both ground and air bases and needed to move …
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train and equip Arbenz rebels. Yes, you heard me right. The CIA had used some of that farmland to train rebels in country, in Guatemala, under the tutelage of United Fruit. Project Fortune proved abortive, but cast the die for success. Somo…
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were almost identical to what they were training up in Guatemala. The main CIA operative would have been Colonel Castillo Armez working with United Fruit. And the CIA had been meeting with him since November of 1951. You know, grooming him.…
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inducing defections. Project headquarters would move to the field and cooperation agreements would be reached with Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador. The initial delivery of 15 tons, tons of equipment, meaning arms, for Castillo Armas ha…
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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 …
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Castillo Armas led his force across the border into Guatemala, driving a battered station wagon. The real threats to Arbenz presidency came from the bombing raids on the capital with aircraft flown by CIA pilots. This created panic among th…
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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 …
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As soon as the dictator, Castillo Armas, was installed in the presidential palace, the CIA began pressuring him to purge Guatemala of Arben supporters. His army rounded up some 4,000 suspected quote-unquote communists, even though they were…
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or Karl Marx. They had no idea what any of that was. But they were guilty of belonging to a democratic political party, labor unions, farm worker associations. They all had been infected with a dangerous idea of the Arbenz era that they cou…
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would do everything in his power to purify Guatemala of those thoughts. The CIA, enamored of making ominous lists, helped the new regime assemble a list of subversives that soon grew to 70,000 names. This is exactly what they did in Vietnam…
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torturer. He was known for extracting confessions from the prisoners. He would hook those same electrical leads that we've talked about in these other stories to, they'd place a skull cap on them and shock their head. They also had electrif…
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Armas' own bloody end came in July of 1957 when he was assassinated by one of his own palace guards. But his death did nothing to abate the slaughter, which continued on and off for decades, reaching new heights during the Reagan administra…
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There was one other item, and thank you, Bridget, for all that concerning PB success. There was a previous attempt called PB Fortune on Armas. So this was not just all about a Benz. They got Armas sort of under control, and then we went wit…
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For those wondering what's really going on here, that was going on during this entire period of time just for United Fruit. There's no doubt in my mind. Thank you, Colonel. Sure. Yeah, Armas was after Arbenz. Yeah. That's who the CIA instal…
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and have paid taxes on for years of the entire swath of land, which was a million dollars. And United Fruit just picked up their old lawyer's phone, Alan Dulles and John Foster Dulles, and said, hey, get your boys down here, which is exactl…
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that they then use as propaganda to overthrow him. The Congress was used as a show of support for Colonel Castillo Armas, A-R-M-A-S. Declassified documents confirm the leading role of the CIA in the Congress. The follow-up events were held …