Foreign-Intervention

CIA Operation PBSUCCESS Overthrows Guatemalan Democracy, Protects United Fruit Company Interests

1954-06-27 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 9/10

On June 27, 1954, democratically elected Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz resigned under pressure from a CIA-orchestrated coup known as Operation PBSUCCESS. The intervention, designed primarily to protect United Fruit Company’s vast landholdings, inaugurated decades of military dictatorship, …

Central Intelligence Agency Allen Dulles John Foster Dulles United Fruit Company Jacobo Arbenz +3 more intelligence-overreach foreign-intervention corporate-interests banana-republic cold-war +1 more

CIA Operation Ajax Overthrows Democratic Iranian Government, Installs Shah Dictatorship

1953-08-19 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 9/10

On August 19, 1953, the CIA executed Operation Ajax (known to the British as Operation Boot), a covert action that overthrew Iran’s democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh and restored authoritarian power to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. The coup marked the first time the CIA …

Central Intelligence Agency Kermit Roosevelt Jr. Allen Dulles John Foster Dulles Mohammad Mosaddegh +4 more intelligence-overreach foreign-intervention oil-industry corporate-interests authoritarian-support +1 more