Washington Unmakes Guatemala, 1954

by Matthew Ward, COHA Research Fellow

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Unpublished Papers and Documents

Most of the declassified documents used are available online in the Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Rooms of the CIA and the State Department.

CIA FOIA Guatemala Electronic Reading Room:

http://www.foia.cia.gov/guatemala.asp

State Department FOIA Electronic Reading Room:

http://foia.state.gov/default.asp

The Foreign Relations of the United States series edited by the Office of the Historian at the Department of State includes many of the more important documents of the period. Where an FRUS citation is available, this has been used. Two volumes of FRUS have been used in particular:

United States Department of State (1983), FRUS, 1952–1954, American Republics (Guatemalan Compilation), vol. 4.

United States Department of State (2003), FRUS, 1952–1954, Guatemala.

The vast proportion of the FRUS series is available online from:

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/frus/

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