We Don’t Want You
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- Identifier
- JML.SphexClub_Schewel_20250911
- Title
- We Don’t Want You
- Description
- Text of a lecture deliever to the SPHEX Club on September 11, 2025. Marc Schewel’s paper examines two major CIA-led Cold War interventions: Operation Ajax in Iran (1953) and Operation Success in Guatemala (1954). It argues that the Eisenhower administration, driven by intense anti-communism and influenced by corporate interests, used covert operations to overthrow democratically elected leaders Mohammad Mossadegh and Jacobo Arbenz. Both leaders pursued nationalist reforms that threatened powerful foreign companies—Anglo-Iranian Oil in Iran and United Fruit in Guatemala—while being falsely portrayed as communist threats. The paper details how the CIA employed propaganda, bribery, disinformation, political manipulation, and paramilitary force to engineer coups. Schewel contends that these interventions produced long-term instability, dictatorship, violence, and anti-American sentiment, including the rise of the Iranian Revolution and decades of civil conflict in Guatemala, demonstrating the enduring consequences of covert U.S. foreign policy.
- Date
- 11 September 2025
- Creator
- Schewel, Marc
- Location
- Lynchburg, Virginia
- Type
- lecture
- Digital Format
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- SPHEX Club (Lynchburg, Va.)
- Repository
- George M. Jones Library Association
- Rights
- George M. Jones Library Association
- Schewel, Marc
- Rights Holder
- George M. Jones Library Association
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