CIA sponsored regime change

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The Central Intelligence Agency has been actively involved in promoting United States interests abroad by overthrowing foreign governments.

Contents 1 Iran and Mossadegh 2 Guatemala 3 Nicaragua 4 Failed CIA coups in Cuba 5 See also 6 References

[edit] Iran and Mossadegh

Main article: Operation Ajax

The CIA overthrew the Iranian premier Mohammed Mossadegh who had attempted to nationalize Iran's oil threatening the interests of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. The coup which was called Operation Ajax was led by CIA operative Kermit Roosevelt, Jr..

[edit] Guatemala

Main article: Operation PBSUCCESS

The CIA overthrew the government of Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán. Arbenz had nationalized a US owned fruit exporting company and the owner of the company who had close ties to the Dulles brothers convinced them to overthrow the regime. There were also fears in the US government that Guatemala could become another beachhead for Soviet influence in the region, due to the Socialist policies of the Arbenz government.

[edit] Nicaragua

Main article: Political history of Nicaragua

1981-90: CIA directs exile (Contra) revolution, plants harbor mines against government

[edit] Failed CIA coups in Cuba

Main article: Bay of Pigs Invasion

The largest and most complicated CIA-led coup effort was the Bay of Pigs operation where CIA trained Cuban anti-communist mercenaries were landed in Cuba to help overthrow the Castro regime. The CIA made many attempts to assassinate Castro.

See also: Cuba-United States relations

[edit] See also

• Overthrow (book)
• Overthrow of the Hawai'ian Monarchy
• List of United States military history events
  • Covert operations, coups, military advisors etc.
• William Walker (soldier) (1824 - 1860)
• Australian constitutional crisis of 1975
• NSC 5412/2 Special Group
• 40 Committee

[edit] References

• Stephen Kinzer Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq, Times Books, 2006, ISBN 0-8050-7861-4
• Robert Fisk The Great War for Civilisation - The Conquest of the Middle East; (October 2005) London. Fourth Estate, xxvi, 1366 pages. ISBN 1-84115-007-X
• The Largest Covert Operation in CIA History by Chalmers Johnson
• William Blum 2003 Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II, revised edition (Common Courage Press) ISBN 1-56751-252-6