Birch O'Neill

Birch O'Neill was the CIA station chief in Guatemala in 1953, succeeding Collins Almon.^[1] When the CIA began Operation PBSuccess, whose goal was to overthrow Guatemalan president Jacobo Arbenz, O'Neill objected, so director Allen Dulles transferred him out so that the operation could proceed..^[2]^[3]

References[]

^ Immerman, Richard H. (1982). The CIA in Guatemala: The Foreign Policy of Intervention. University of Texas Press. p. 134. ISBN 0-292-71083-6.
^ Kinzer, Stephen; The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and their secret war; 2013; p. 165
^ Kinzer, Stephen (2006). Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq. Henry Holt and Company LLC. ISBN 0-8050-8240-9.

[1] Immerman, Richard H. (1982). The CIA in Guatemala: The Foreign Policy of Intervention. University of Texas Press. p. 134. ISBN 0-292-71083-6.

[2] Kinzer, Stephen; The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and their secret war; 2013; p. 165

[3] Kinzer, Stephen (2006). Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq. Henry Holt and Company LLC. ISBN 0-8050-8240-9.

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