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S2 Bonus 1 - "Red-Handed Sleight of Hand"

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The Guatemala Plan - A Brief History

Castillo armas and his band of liberacionistas were only one part of the operation. The other two key pieces of the plan were an all out diplomatic assault as well as a psychological warfare campaign in the media. A new us Ambassador, hand picked by the p b success plotters, pistol packing james purifoy, who was less of a diplomat and more of a constant whirlwind of headlines and aggression. And propaganda was pumped out around the world and within guatemala, meant to emphasize how isolated the country had become.

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