Carlos Díaz person
also: Colonel Carlos Diaz, Diaz
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“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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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 …
▶ 56:51
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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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.…
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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…
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When the communists were forced by outside pressure to attempt to take over Guatemala completely, they forced Arbenz to resign. They then proceeded to establish a communist junta under Colonel Carlos Diaz, unquote, which isn't what happened…