The Guatemalan Coup

5: US Government, Status of PBSUCCESS (1953)

men on balcony — Unknown, Armas Presidential Palace ,1957, All Thats Interesting

This collection of documents are released documents from the released documents from PBSSUCCESS. These documents are from the National Security Archives. They created it to the public with the Freedom of Information Act. It is a collection of documents, so there is no defined point of view.

The overall historical significance is due to the connection of PBSSuccess and the connection to the Guatemalan Coup. This is a key contributor to the coup and is hardly talked about. It relates to the project as it spans over the before and after of the coup.

“During the entire twentieth century, Guatemala has been neither liberal nor conservative. It has been a people without political expression, governed by men who have been ideologically empty.”

Source

Status of PBSUCCESS | cia foia (foia.cia.gov). (1953, October 29). https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/02627759