United States intervention (1960–1996)
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- Papers Expand on U.S. Role in Guatemala
- By Douglas Farah, Washington Post, 12 March
1999. The U.S. diplomat, Peter Vaky, in late 1960s wrote an extensive
memo condemning his embassy's tolerance of state-sponsored
terrorism, targeted innocent civilians and undermined American
principles.
- Guatemala 1962 to 1980s; A less publicized
‘final solution’
- A chapter from Killing Hope: US Military and CIA
Interventions Since World War II, by William
Blum. Guatemala's
final solution
for mainly
Indian peasants and urban poor, has been going on rather
longer than the more publicized one of the Nazis. The
ever-accumulating discontent issued forth in 1962 in a
desperate lunge for alleviation by a guerrilla movement,
but it was thrown back in the 60s by a Guatemalan-American
operation reminiscent of the Spanish conquistadores in its
barbarity.
- ORPA Denies CIA Aid
- Cerigua Weekly Briefs, 11 March 1997. An
example of a U.S. dirty tricks campaign to split the
guerilla movement by getting U.S. press to print false
rumors in early 80s.
- Reagan administration's links to
Guatemala's terrorist government
- By Allan Nairn, Covert Action Quarterly,
Summer 1989. Guatemala's death squads say they struck
a deal with Ronald Reagan to restore U.S. weapon sales and
training facilities to the Guatemalan military and police,
curtail State Department criticism of the Guatemalan
regime's human rights violations, and possible
U.S. military intervention to shore up the Guatemla
government. Close association of the U.S. with the
Guatemal's far right in the 1980s.
- Intelligence Oversight Board releases
report
- Central America Update, 15-30 June
1996. Shortly after revelations that a Guatemalan colonel
implicated in high-profile killings was on the CIA
payroll, the U.S. government took steps to deny any
criminal wrong doing. It did admit that the CIA maintained
human rights abusers as paid
assets
as late as
1994, and it withheld information from U.S. Congress.