The NSA act helped create a secret government within a legitimate government willing to overthrow democratically elected leaders in favour of multinational U.S. corporations and puppet dictators. The situation in Guatemala in the early 1950s motivated the United States to use overt and covert action to destabilize and overthrow the government of Guatemala. The Central Intelligence Agency’s orchestrated coup in 1954 ended Guatemala’s fledgling democracy, making it the zeni

By the end of 1953 there had been diplomatic efforts to curtail the direction of the Guatemalan government and its’ reforms, but, they all failed. With McCarthyism growing in the United States, UFCO managed to harness the direct attention of the U.S government, namely the CIA. Guatemala had no one on its’ side, their autonomous foreign and domestic policies alienated them from the rest of Central America. As of September 11, 1953 Guatemala represented ‘…a serious threat to hemispheric solidarity and to our security in the Caribbean area.’ The job of undermining the government of Guatemala was now officially underway.

Guidelines were evident enough that a democratic government could move forward without any concern, so long as they fell within the constraints of the agreement. Through the mid to late 1940s, Arevalos’ ideas were ‘fuzzily socialistic’, and other than banning the communist party, not many important reforms were taking place. As the Arevalo government lost momentum through the late 1940s, his progress was becoming negligible and challenges started coming in from landowners, merchants and a sizeable portion of the military. Arevalo lacked a substantial group to build his democracy on, so his government began to drift without purpose.

Bernays ‘…remained a key source of information for the press, especially the liberal press, right through the takeover.’ As the invasion was commencing on June 18, his personal papers indicate he was giving the \'…first news anyone received on the situation…\' to the Associate Press, United Press, the International News Service, and the New York Times, all of the press releases continuing intensely even post coup.

Ironically, years after the counter-revolution ‘Castillo Armas new regime proved embarrassingly inept,’ creating a situation that would last for close to forty years. ‘By attaining its short-term goal –removing Jacobo Arbenz –PBSUCCESS thwarted the long-term objective of producing a stable, non-Communist Guatemala.’

Bernays would whip up media and political sentiment against Guatemala in the commie-crazed 1950s. Articles appeared in the New York Times, the New York Herald Tribune, The Atlantic Monthly, Time, Newsweek, The New Leader, and other publications all discussing the growing influence of Guatemala\'s Communists.

United Fruits’ other main mouthpiece to the sources of power was Thomas G. Corcoran. He had a ‘…network of well placed friends in business and government… [CIA white-out]… [that would calm]…bureaucratic waters when an occasional regulator found peculiarities in the airlines’ activities.’ Both public relations men spun the situation in Guatemala to the point where there was a more perceived threat to American hemispheric instability.

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