occurred in Tehran in August 1953, while the Philippine election campaign was heating up, although historians continue to debate how much of the credit or blame should go to the CIA. Later that year, Eisenhower would give the go-ahead to Operation Success to topple Guatemala’s leftist president, Jacobo Arbenz. In 1954, a CIA team under Colonel Richard Haney would contrive a “spontaneous uprising” to drive Arbenz out of power.
