The CIA in Guatemala: The Foreign Policy of InterventionUsing documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, recently opened archival collections, and interviews with the actual participants, Immerman provides us with a definitive, powerfully written, and tension-packed account of the United States' clandestine operations in Guatemala and their consequences in Latin America today. |
Contents
Truman Eisenhower and the Cold War in Latin America | 3 |
Underdevelopment Repression and Revolution | 20 |
The Revolutionary Governments Communism or Nationalism? | 44 |
The View from the North | 68 |
From Truman to Eisenhower The Road to Intervention | 101 |
Project PBSUCCESS The Preparation | 133 |
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