HOMAGE TO MURDER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000100040031-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 21, 1998
• Sequence Number: 31
• Publication Date: November 15, 1954
• Content Type: NSPR

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HOMAGE TO -MURDER
h7tST , the Saturday Evening rost t speea an
advertising blurb across the country: It was the upcoming
story of "Allen ill .s rother of the Secretary of State),
chief of our espionage organization, the Central Intelli-
gence Agency. Here's the story of his colorful career-his
part ... in the overthrow of Mossadegh in Iran, and in the
Communist defeat in. Guatemala...."
Yesterday, the New York Times carried a dispatch
from Guatemala which could well serve as the postscript
to the cynical advertisement. The Times report revealed
that 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 Armas had .condemned 20 political
prisoners to death before the firing squad, many of then
labor leaders.
The story is similar in Iran, where Dulles also acted
so "colorful" a part. Hussei i- Fatemi, former Iranian for-
eign minister, was executed: Isis sole "crime" was that he
had opposed the stealing of Irani s vast oil resources by Brit-
ish and U. S. combines.
The American people can do `much to stop these hor-
Tors by protesting to the State Department and to the Iran-
ian and Guatemalan embassies. Our labor movement, es-
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 liberty.
CPYRGHT
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