Real (?) CIA 'Study of Assassination' Declassified 1953 doc

[Masato]

Hey all,

A freind emailed this to me... It's apparently a transcript of the CIA file titled 'A Study of Assassination' from 1953, that was De-Classified in 1997. Apparently it was written in regards to plans + execution of an american Coup on the Guatemalan Government:

http://whokilledjfk.net/cia_assassination_files.htm


Unsigned and undated (estimated publication date: Dec 31st, 1953) 19-page typewritten file was part of a collection of CIA documents pertaining to Operations PBFORTUNE and PBSUCCESS and was declassified under the Freedom of Information Act on May 15, 1997.

After years of answering Freedom of Information Act requests with its standard "we can neither confirm nor deny that such records exist," the CIA has finally declassified some 1400 pages of over 100,000 estimated to be in its secret archives on the Guatemalan destabilization program. An excerpt from this assassination manual appears on the Op-Ed page of The New York

Times on Saturday, May 31, 1997.

Operations PBFORTUNE and PBSUCCESS were the CIA code-names of the 1952-54 attempts to topple the Guatemalan government under the democratically elected President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman. Arbenz Guzman was elected President of Guatemala in 1950 to continue a process of socio-economic reforms that the CIA disdainfully refers to in its memoranda as "an intensely nationalistic program of progress colored by the touchy, anti-foreign inferiority complex of the 'Banana Republic.'"* The first CIA effort to overthrow the Guatemalan president - a CIA collaboration with Nicaraguan dictator Anastacio Somoza to support a disgruntled general named Carlos Castillo Armas and codenamed Operation PBFORTUNE - was authorized by President Truman in 1952.


As early as February of that year, CIA Headquarters began generating memos with subject titles such as "Guatemalan Communist Personnel to be disposed of during Military Operations," outlining categories of persons to be neutralized through "Executive Action" (= murder) or through imprisonment and exile.

The "A" list of those to be assassinated contained 58 names, all of which the CIA has excised from the declassified documents. PBSUCCESS, authorized by President Eisenhower in August 1953, carried a US$2.7 million budget (in 1953)for "psychological warfare and political action"and "subversion," among the other components of a small paramilitary war.


Between 1954 and 1990, human rights groups estimate that the repressive operatives of successive military regimes killed more than 180,000 individuals. Among them are the Mayans massacred in 626 documented government sponsored or government-committed attacks on native villages

http://whokilledjfk.net/cia_assassination_files.htm

[Canuckster]

nice, that only took 40 fucking years to de classify,

[Edge Guerrero]

nice, that only took 40 fucking years to de classify,

- More ten years and would be a half of a century.

[Masato]

^ still relevant IMO.

David Rockefeller Jr will be 100 soon.