Eisenhower Library, Hagerty papers
Excerpt From the Diary of James C. Hagerty, Press Secretary to the President
[Washington,] June 18, 1954.
In at 8:15.
Allen Dulles called early in the morning to tell me that his organization expected there would be an anti-Communist uprising in Guatemala very shortly. Officially we don’t know anything about it. The story broke late Friday night.
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