The CIA in Guatemala
The Foreign Policy of Intervention
Richard H. Immerman (Author)
9780292710832
Paperback / softback, published 1 April 1982
302 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 3.3 cm, 0.426 kg
... a valuable study of what Immerman correctly portrays as a seminal event, not just in the annals of the Cold War, but in U.S.-Latin American relations.
(The Washington Monthly) ... a damning indictment of American interference abroad.
(The Pittsburgh Press) This story is much more thorough than the recent popularized account of the same events by Stephen Kinzer and Stephen Schlesinger ...
(Choice)
Using 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.
- Preface
- 1. Truman, Eisenhower, and the Cold War in Latin America
- 2. Underdevelopment, Repression, and Revolution
- 3. The Revolutionary Governments: Communism or Nationalism?
- 4. The View from the North
- S. From Truman to Eisenhower: The Road to Intervention
- 6. Project PBSUCCESS: The Preparation
- 7. Project PBSUCCESS: The Coup
- 8. Project PBSUCCESS: The Legacy
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
