19 YEARS AFTER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000100210029-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 2, 2010
• Sequence Number: 29
• Publication Date: June 21, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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VILLAGE VOICE
21 June 1983
PRESS ivS
By Alexander Cockburn
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spoken. to?thinicths Neal chsrgea?have
trutb&Nc newspaper hasfollowsd; up. netwotk_. Wk,
shows-ire~:epieta.:,Rth discussions of the
overthrowinr foreign goveram ts. Their usual answer
it's moral if'.ths.US is. t17iurto?overthrow Nicaragua. It
is immorir:if-Nicaragua. is- trying. to. overthrow the US.
- Watergate, -the CIA sandals.tbe poisoned dart... all are now forgotten,. as. the tea
overt what was once covert, sayingand doingdirtythings
in, front of the children.
On June 18, 1954, .19. years ago next Saturday. the.
CIA/United Truit coup overthrew the- democratically
electedArbew: government in- Guatemala. Arbenz's land.
reform..were? intolerable to Eisenhower and-his busiaess.-
friends. Int`this. pa radigmatieR:US+coup*.he-CIAss . crss_:
tore, Cast~lo. Armes, inaugurated:'.a.. tradition-of.aa--
ssssihetion: and super exploitedorr::and torture, crib--
minting: in literal genocide under Guatemala's present
leader Rios Montt. Nothing worse was ever perpetrated
in Uganda under Amin? or the ian Central. Empire
under$okessa than in Guatemala over the last 10 years.
Repression has reached a level of bestiality there which
sickens any normal human being with the inc]iaation.to
study the evidence.
This one has the extremely benign tolerance of the.
Reagan magdministration and the enthusiastic military
support of Israel It is the living, foul advertisement of
the consequences of US subvetsiomAt 7 pm= Saturday,
June-18-,:StepbeaSehiasin co-author: or Bitser-#ruit.
(the: excellent .account of. Az > overthrow) will'join
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