The CIA operations PBFORTUNE and PBSUCCESS had striven to topple Guatemala’s democratic government led by President Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán. The first attempt at toppling President Guzmán was authorized by US president Truman in 1952. At the beginning of the same year, CIA headquarters started producing memos with titles like “Guatemalan Communist Personnel to Remove During Military Operations.” The A-list of people being considered for “removal” included fifty-eight people.
