PBSUCCESS: A Primary Source Account of the 1954 Guatemalan Coup, the United Fruit Company, and the Sullivan & Cromwell Client Relationship That Made It Possible

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PBSUCCESS: A Primary Source Account of the 1954 Guatemalan Coup, the United Fruit Company, and the Sullivan & Cromwell Client Relationship That Made It Possible

Six sections. The UFCO land structure and the tax valuation detail. The Bernays PR campaign. The Eisenhower administration's conflict of interest in full. The operation itself. The consequences.

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Jul 16, 2026

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The 1954 Guatemalan coup is the most extensively documented covert operation in the Sullivan & Cromwell story — more documented than Panama, more documented than the Iran operation, more documented than any of the firm's earlier interventions. This is partly because the CIA declassified significant portions of the PBSUCCESS operational archive in 1997, …

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