The army, which had begun to reconsider its loyalty to Arbenz, finally turned on the president and pressured him to resign. On June 27, unable to command the loyalty of his troops, he stepped down, eventually making his way to safety in Mexico. Within days a junta of army officers, in conjunction with American intelligence agents, worked out a deal to bring Castillo Armas into power. It was another home run for the CIA, as Dulles and Wisner saw it. “A great victory has been won,” Wisner cabled to PB-SUCCESS headquarters in Florida.
