#Guatemala

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Allen Dulles Allen Dulles served as CIA Director from 1953 to 1961, overseeing Operation AJAX (Iran, 1953), Operation PBSUCCESS (Guatemala, 1954), and the Bay of Pigs invasion (1961) that ended in catastrophic failure and his forced resignation.
David Atlee Phillips CIA propaganda officer in the 1954 Guatemala coup, chief of Cuban operations in Mexico City during Oswald's 1963 visit, co-director of the 1970 Chile task force, and the man Antonio Veciana named as Maurice Bishop.
Howard Hunt CIA officer who ran propaganda for the 1954 Guatemala coup and politics for the Bay of Pigs, headed covert action in the Domestic Operations Division, joined the Mullen Company, and was convicted in Watergate.
Jacobo Arbenz Jacobo Arbenz was the democratically elected President of Guatemala from 1951 to 1954 whose land reform program expropriating United Fruit Company holdings prompted the CIA's Operation PBSUCCESS, which overthrew his government in June 1954 and established the CIA-backed coup as the template for subsequent Cold War interventions in Latin America.
Tracy Barnes Tracy Barnes was a CIA officer and OSS veteran who served as the Washington coordinator of Operation PBSUCCESS (the 1954 Guatemala coup) and head of the Domestic Operations Division for the Bay of Pigs invasion, and a member of the Georgetown social circle around Frank Wisner and Allen Dulles that defined the early Cold War CIA's covert action culture.

CIA Western Hemisphere Division The CIA's clandestine service division for Latin America, which ran the 1954 Guatemala coup under J.C. King and the 1970 Chile task force under William Broe and David Atlee Phillips.
Legion of September 15 Early Contra group of ex-Nicaraguan National Guardsmen based in Guatemala, co-commanded by Enrique Bermudez and Ricardo Lau, that formed the core of what became the FDN.
United Fruit Company The United Fruit Company was the dominant American agricultural and infrastructure corporation in Central America and the Caribbean whose expropriation by Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz provided the corporate rationale for Operation PBSUCCESS, with CIA Director Allen Dulles and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles both having served as United Fruit's legal counsel at Sullivan & Cromwell before their government appointments.

Operation PBSUCCESS Operation PBSUCCESS was the CIA's June 1954 covert operation that overthrew Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz, installing the pro-American Castillo Armas government, establishing the template for subsequent CIA-backed regime change operations, and drawing lessons about covert action that contributed directly to the Bay of Pigs disaster seven years later.