Stage 6-2
240. Telegram From the Central Intelligence Agency to Operation PBSUCCESS Headquarters in Florida
Recommend one more adverse reference to UFCO by SHERWOOD. Reports arriving here that since UFCO not attacked by RUFUS he must be UFCO man. Believe you have proper line for this already; viz. new regime will not put up with UFCO if it persists reactionary outmoded tactics and unsatisfactory labor relations.
Stage 6-3
245. Telegram From the Central Intelligence Agency to the CIA Station in [place not declassified]
Talking points drafted by Frank Wisner, spinning/denying what's not flattering to US, and sometimes just straight lying. "The Guatemalan situation is not a banana republic fracas. It is an actual Guatemalan uprising against a Communist regime and Communist apparatus which is definitely linked to Moscow."
Stage 6-4
231. Telegram From Operation PBSUCCESS Headquarters in Florida to the Central Intelligence Agency
Telegram suggesting Secretary of State or other spokesperson from National Security Council or State Dept "countermeasures, starting with solemn U.S. Govt statement (perhaps joint declaration Sec State, Sec Agriculture) endorsing principles agrarian reform movements everywhere, in line with U.S. farm policy.
Stage 6-5a
PBHISTORY Teams Re Guatemala 1954 Coup
Project summary requested by Frank Wisner. Purpose: To exploit immediately 100,000 Guatemalan Communist documents for intelligence and propaganda motives with attached administrative plan.
Stage 6-5b
PBHISTORY Summary Report
Summary detailing the "far from sensational" results that they were hoping for. “The overall percentage of valuable documents was extremely low…” “The unusually cooperative press in Guatemala and the efforts of the Ministry of Propaganda, plus the aid of the local QKFLOWAGE man, enabled PBHISTORY to saturate fairly well the Guatemalans with the idea that the Comité had confirmed what had been denied by the pro-Communists - that the ARBENZ Government was dominated and controlled by Communists and that ARBENZ himself was finally completely identified with the Reds.”
Stage 6-6z
PBHistory Overview
Operation Kickoff Document
Stage 6-6a
General - PBHISTORY Progress Report 4-9 August
Progress report on PBHISTORY detailing meeting with Castillo Armas, but more importantly the step-by-step plan to exploit documents with tailor-made propaganda for local and international news outlets. David Atlee Phillips is enlisted to help. "Naturally there will be other on-the-spot innovations and preparation of black material whenever possible.”
Stage 6-6b
Propaganda Exploitation of PBHISTORY Documents
Memo that shows the plan to exploit evidence has been executed - photos, documents and a short film are distributed to local and international news media outlets.
Stage 6-6c
CIA telegram discussing fake documents to use as evidence against Arbenz. “What can we cite as the source of these documents?”
Stage 6-7a
Mexico Arresting Guatemalan Exiles
NYTimes article about former chief of police, Major Jaime Rosenberg being extradited from Mexico. Cites government evidence of shallow graves
Stage 6-7b
Arbenz Blames U.S. for His Fall; Will Continue Guatemalan Fight
NYTimes article where Arbenz talks about US being behind overthrow, financing it with millions of dollars, and the mass graves being fake
Stage 6-8
Idea to Discredit Arbenz
Memo with suggestions on ways to discredit Arbenz, which would be an "expose of Arbenz's drinking and morphine escapes" to be in the "form of a booklet" "including fake photos".
Stage 6-10a
GUATEMALA PLANS TRIAL FOR ARBENZ
"New Envoy to U. S. Reports Ex-President Is Classified as Communist-Criminal" Arbenz is accused of being a criminal ("largescale looting of government funds"). Guatemalan ambassador requests extradition from Mexico.
Stage 6-10B
ARBENZ IS LINKED TO MURDER IN '49
Anti-arbenz newspaper campaign charges, without evidence, Jacobo Arbenz in the assassination of Col. Francisco Javier Arana in June, 1949.
Stage 6-10c
GUATEMALA ACCUSES EX-CHIEFS OF THEFT
Officials of the deposed regime of Jacobo Arbenz Guzman "stole" 5,000,000 quetzales from the Government in one operation this year, the Attorney General charged today. The quetzal is on a par with the dollar.
Stage 6-11a
237. Telegram From the United States Information Agency to Certain Posts
“The US Information agency wants to blame the Soviets for trying to pin America as the aggressor in Guatemala." USIA urges psychological offensive tying Arbenz regime to Soviets.
Stage 6-11b
Telegram from Allen Dulles to James Hagerty
Telegram from Allen Dulles that says that Moscow intelligence is helping frame the US embassy, and that it's typical, they're crying Yankee Imperialism.
Stage 6-12
Cable to KUGOWN - PBSUCCESS- D Day Pronouncements
CIA drafted “pronouncements” for Castillo Armas to make upon taking power.
Stage 6-13a
Subcommittee to Investigate Communist Aggression in Latin America
Convenient retelling of CIA's account of PBSUCCESS and PBHISTORY. Contains a lot of false information.
Stage 6-13b
Eleanor Dulles Study on Guatemala
Eleanor Dulles does an extensive study on Guatemala, which takes months. She cites the CIA and State Dept. as main sources for much of the false information she bases her report on
Stage 6-14a
Selection of Individuals for Disposal by Junta Group
Memo with proposed list for assassinations. Asks for recommendations with additions to that list.
Stage 6-14b
Disposal List prepared by C/EW
Disposal list for review.
Stage 6-15a
151. Memorandum for DC/P and CIP, Central Intelligence Agency
Memo suggesting Acts before D-Day, which include a raid on Arbenz's finca, as well as the disposal of (names not declassified), but one is a high ranking officer. They thought it best for Calligeris not to have to reckon with him.
Stage 6-15b
164. Telegram From the CIA Station in [place not declassified] to Operation PBSUCCESS Headquarters in Florida
Telegram requesting the identities of four persons listed for early eradication.
Stage 6-15c
166. Note for the Files
Notes on the disposal list, which according to the person who drafted this (C/EW) "is by no means complete, as it excludes such prominent Communists as Julio Estrada de la Hoz."
Stage 6-16
A Study of Assassination
CIA manual on assassination methods and best practices.
Stage 6-17
113. Memorandum for the Record
In a weekly PBSUCCESS meeting, top Government officials discuss the next steps in the light of the deteriorating situation. "We might reconsider exploiting the conclusion arrived at by Trujillo last year and transmitted to Perez Jimenez that the best way to bring about the fall of the Arbenz government would be to eliminate 15-20 of its leaders with Trujillo’s trained pistoleros."
Stage 6-18a
Operations Against Jacobo Arbenz, Ex-President of Guatemala
Extensive CIA documentation of rumors, lies, and factoids about Jacobo Arbenz, with instructions for discrediting him as a communist, three years after he was overthrown.
Stage 6-18
THE CIA AND JACOBO ARBENZ: History of a Disinformation Campaign
Study of CIA's continued activity on Jacobo Arbenz post exile.