About Iran and Guatemala

In 1953 CIA operative Kermit Roosevelt ran Operation Ajax which used Iranian agents they trained and paid to bomb various targets both civilian and infrastructure in order to destabilize the government of the elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh because he nationalized the Iranian oil fields to the dismay of British private oil interests.



In 1954 the CIA set Operation PBSUCCESS into action in an effort to remove then president  Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán. He had the audacity to begin to implement an FDR styled New Deal type program in Guatamala and the powers that be saw that as setting a bad example in our backyard. The result was a brutal civil war which lasted nearly 40 years with CIA and State Department collusion in the death squads that ran rampant in the country. An estimated 400,000 died during that time frame. All of that to keep the evil of the New Deal from spreading across Latin America.