Our new role in the world had put us in conflict not only with the Communists but with our own traditions. What was evolving was a closed state within an open state. The Guatemala plan, Roosevelt found, was already well advanced. He checked around a bit on his own and decided that the conditions for success in Guatemala were not so favorable as in Iran. He turned down the offer and eventually resigned from the CIA—just before the Bay of Pigs disaster, which, he liked to say, was compelling proof that his earlier warnings had been justified.
