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Eisenhower authorizes CIA covert operation (Operation PBSUCCESS) against Guatemala

On March 18, 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorized a CIA plan—later known as Operation PBSUCCESS—to covertly undermine and overthrow Guatemalan president Jacobo Árbenz.

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