CIA activities in Guatemala
The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has a rich history of intervention over many decades in Guatemala, a country in Central America that the US government has generally viewed as "its backyard."
The goal of the PBSUCCESS was to instill fear and terror throughout the Guatemalans.
The PBSUCCESS coup was a sheer display of the power and risks the United States were willing to take to avoid losing valued nations to communism.
In 1993 the CIA helped in overthrowing President Jorge Serrano Elías who attempted a self-coup and had illegally suspended the cons ution, dissolved Congress and the Supreme Court, and imposed censorship.
the CIA had sponsored multiple intelligence agencies that were infamous for inhumanities in Guatemala.[66]
The report states that a significant amount of the agency's Guatemalan allies, including the D-2 and the Presidential Department of Security, were believed to have been involved with numerous "reprehensible" human rights violations in the region.
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