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This led to a CIA-orchestrated coup in 1954, known as Operation PBSUCCESS, which saw Arbenz toppled and forced into exile by Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas.

Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes Operation PBSUCCESS, a program of " psychological warfare and political action " and " subversion ," that succeeds in removing the government of Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán with the help of Guatemalan military general Carlos Castillo Armas.

He also played a major role in the Central Intelligence Agency operation to overthrow the democratic Mossadegh government of Iran in 1953 ( Operation Ajax ) and the democratic Arbenz government of Guatemala in 1954 ( Operation PBSUCCESS ).

In that same year, due to his relationship with his brother Allen Dulles, the Director of CIA and a former member of the Board Of Directors of the United Fruit Company, based in Guatemala, Foster Dulles was pivotal in promoting and executing the CIA-led Operation PBSUCCESS that overthrew the democratically elected Guatemalan government of Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán.

Assigned by the Eisenhower administration, this military opposition was armed, trained and organized by the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency ( see Operation PBSUCCESS ).

The Eisenhower Administration ordered the CIA to effect Operation PBSUCCESS, the coup d ' état to depose the Árbenz Government of Guatemala.

* 1954-The CIA helps Guatemalians overthrow of Guatemala's president Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán ( Operation PBSUCCESS )

In Mexico, Hunt helped devise Operation PBSUCCESS, the successful covert plan to overthrow Jacobo Arbenz, the elected president of Guatemala.

* Training files of the CIA's covert " Operation PBSUCCESS ," for the 1954 coup in Guatemala.

According to the National Security Archive: " Among the documents found in the training files of Operation PBSUCCESS and declassified by the Agency is a CIA document titled ' A Study of Assassination.

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Agrarian reform met with the second officially orchestrated clandestine CIA-instigated coup d ' etat chartered as Operation PBFORTUNE and Operation PBSUCCESS, championed by US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, whose brother Allen, the Director of Central Intelligence, was a primary stakeholder in the United Fruit Company, which owned significant portions of the rural land subject to agrarian reforms.

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For example, the CIA plots to overthrow the governments of Iran ( see: Operation Ajax ) and Guatemala ( see: Operation PBSUCCESS ).

Mockingbird was very active during the overthrow of President Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán in Guatemala during Operation PBSUCCESS.

This included the CIA coups in Guatemala ( Operation PBSUCCESS ) and Iran ( Operation Ajax ) and the Bay of Pigs Invasion.

Operation PBSUCCESS: the deposed Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán ( 1951 – 54 )

The 1954 Guatemalan coup d ’ état ( 18 – 27 June 1954 ) was the CIA covert operation that deposed President Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán ( 1950 – 54 ), with Operation PBSUCCESS — paramilitary invasion by an anti-Communist “ army of liberation ”.

Nonetheless, two years later, in June 1954, Operation PBSUCCESS realised the anti – Árbenz coup d ’ état, and installed Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas as President of Guatemala.

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