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This week we have the saga of the SS Springfjord, which survived World War Two unscathed but could not escape the wrath of the Central Intelligence Agency. 

Sources:

Handy, Jim. Gift of the Devil: A History of Guatemala. South End Press, 1984. 

Handy, Jim. Revolution in the Countryside: Rural Conflict and Agrarian Reform in Guatemala, 1944 - 1954. University of North Carolina Press, 1994. 

Prados, John. The Ghosts of Langley: Into the CIA’s Heart of Darkness. The New Press, 2017. 

https://web.archive.org/web/20101105080457/http://www.foia.cia.gov/docs/DOC_0000919986/DOC_0000919986.pdf

https://www.nytimes.com/1954/07/01/archives/the-text-of-dulles-speech-on-guatemalan-upset.html

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