PB Success: The CIA's Covert Operation to Overthrow Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz June-July 1954 - Couverture souple

Overall, Mario; Hagedorn, Dan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1910777897 ISBN 13 : 9781910777893

Editeur : Helion & Company, 2016

Synopsis

In January 1954, at the peak of the so-called “Cold War”, the U.S. Government set to overthrow the Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz, who had been deemed a Communist and a dangerous influence in Central America. Thus, the Central Intelligence Agency was ordered to launch a clandestine paramilitary operation, code-named “Project PB Success”, for setting a precedent in a region that was considered the U.S. backyard. Six months later, Arbenz was out and a new “ruling junta”, more amiable to U.S. interests, had replaced him. In the process, the Agency not only had established the principles and tactics for all its future covert operations, but also had shaped the U.S. foreign policy for years to come. Based primarily on CIA declassified documents and Guatemalan military sources, this book explores the volatile political and military scenario in which Project PBSuccess unfolded and, for the first time, delves into a rather poorly documented aspect of the operation: The use of air power by both, the CIA and the Guatemalan Air Force. Backed by more than 20 years of careful research, the book covers the desperate attempts of the Guatemalan air arm for establishing a credible defense plan with very limited resources, and the difficulties that the Agency had to overcome in order to organize a rebel air force while navigating a sea of red tape and bureaucracy. It also examines all air operations launched prior and during the campaign, and brings to life the aircraft and the aviators that flew in those missions, sometimes with tragic results. Besides a selection of photos never published before, the book also features a section on color profiles and markings, and a set of tables detailing the identities of the aircraft involved and the missions flown, on a day-by-day basis.

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À propos des auteurs

Mario Overall is the co-founder of the Latin American Aviation Historical Society – has studies in Computer Systems Engineering at the Mariano Gálvez University of Guatemala. He served in the Guatemalan Air Force as a computer specialist and then in the same capacity with the Narcotics Affairs Section of the US Embassy to Guatemala. To date, he has written more than 15 articles related to the history of military aviation in Central America, which have been published in renowned magazines in the US, Spain, Brazil, Mexico, England, France and Poland. Overall has also collaborated with several authors in their research work about Latin American aviation history.

Dan Hagedorn is Curator and Director of Collections at The Museum of Flight at historic Boeing Field in Seattle, Washington, and is a graduate of Villa Maria College, the State University of New York, and the Command and General Staff College (U.S. Army, post-graduate). He was previously Adjunct Curator and Research Team Leader at the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC for 19 years. Prior to that, he served in the U.S. Armed Forces for 27 years in leadership and intelligence positions worldwide and has, to date, authored 21 monographs or books detailing various aspects of aviation and aerospace history. In conjunction with the 150th Anniversary of the Smithsonian Institution, he was named an Unsung Hero of the Smithsonian Institution and was awarded the Orden do Merito Santos-Dumont by the Brazilian Government for services to Latin American aviation history, in which he specializes.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Helion & Company
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1910777897
• ISBN 13: 9781910777893
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 96
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible