HOMAGE TO MURDER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74-00297R000601240020-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 8, 2013
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: November 15, 1954
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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'HOMAGE TO MURDER
LAST WEEK, the Saturday Evening Post spread an
, advertising.hlurb acrossite?cbantr"It \ 6s-the upcoming
story of "Allen..pulles .(bother of the .Secretary 'of State);
chief of our .espionage organization, the Central
Inftfli-
gence Agency. Here's the story of his colorful Caree.:?his
part .. the overthrow of Mossadegh in Iran, and in the
Communist defeat in Guatemala. ?
Yesterday, the New York Times 'carried a dispateh.
Ifrom Guatemala which could well serve- as the postscript
to the cynical advertisement. -The Times report revealed
Vthat four months after the violent seizure of power by the
Castillo Armas regime' not a single labor union or peas-
ants' organization has been permitted to function. ,
This report was preceded by a 'dispatch ,Which an-
nounced that Castillo Arrnas had. condemned 20 political
prisoners to deat:i before the firing squad, many of them
, labor leaders.
The story is similar in Iran, where ? Dulles also. acted
? so "colorful" -a part. Hussein Fatemi, former Iranian for-
eign 'minister, was executed. His sole "crime" was ?that he
opposed the stealing of Iran's vast oil resources by Brit-
ish and U. S. combines. .
The American people .can do much to .stop these bor-
- rors by protestingto the State Department and to the Iran-
ian-and Guatemalan embassies. Our labor 'Movement, eS7
.pecially the AFL leadership which joined in, the campaign
against Arbenz regime,. has a special responsibility to speak.
'out against the slaughter of _life and lijmr.fy... ? ?
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