A CIA spokesperson said in a statement the moves were meant to align the agency with the goals of new CIA Director John ...

The CIA’s role in national security The CIA director ... These included conducting coups in Iran and Guatemala and attempted or successful political assassinations in Congo, the Dominican ...

making him Guatemala's first democratically elected president. His foray into democracy was short-lived as the "experiment was crushed" by a CIA-orchestrated coup in 1954, Will Freeman wrote for ...

A garrison state for more than forty years, Guatemala was home to the longest and bloodiest civil war in Central American history. The roots of that war go back to an almost-forgotten CIA ...