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Secret History: The C.I.A.'s Classified Account of Its Operations in Guatemala, 1952-1954 by Nick Cullather; with a new introduction by the author and an Afterword by Piero Gleijeses is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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(https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37331.Secret_History) Secret History In 1992, the Central Intelligence Agency hired the young historian Nick Cullather to write a history (classified “secret” and for internal distribution only) of the Agency’s Operation PBSUCCESS, which overthrew the lawful government of Guatemala in 1954. Given full access to the Agency’s archives, he produced a vivid insider’s account, intended as a training manual for covert operators, detailing how the C.I.A. chose targets, planned strategies, and organized the mechanics of waging a secret war. In 1997, during a brief period of open disclosure, the C.I.A. declassified the history with remarkably few substantive deletions. The New York Times called it “an astonishingly frank account . . . which may be a high-water mark in the agency’s openness.” Here is that account, with new notes by the author which clarify points in the history and add newly available information. In the Cold War atmosphere of 1954, the U.S. State Department (under John Foster Dulles) and the C.I.A. (under his brother Allen Dulles) regarded Guatemala’s democratically elected leftist government as a Soviet beachhead in the Western Hemis

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Author

Nick Cullather; with a new introduction by the author and an Afterword by Piero Gleijeses

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780804733113

Category

history

Subjects

True Crime, Political Science, Fiction

Rating

3.84 / 5 (84 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14