With Truman in power, it had been impossible to convince the gringos that military action alone—action of the kind that the CIA had undertaken in Iran not long before, to liquidate Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh’s regime—would put an end to the communists’ growing influence in Guatemala. But at last, thanks largely to the new Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, and his brother, the new CIA head, Allen Dulles, both former representatives of United Fruit, the North Americans had decided to give the armed invasion the support Castillo Armas had sought ever since he’d escaped from the dank,
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