Editorial Note
On June 22, 1954, at 2:30 p.m., Secretary Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Assistant Secretary Holland met with President Eisenhower at the White House to discuss possible United States cooperation in replacing aircraft lost by Castillo Armas’ forces. The President’s daily appointment book for that date indicates that the meeting was off the record. According to the account presented in the President’s memoirs, Assistant Secretary Holland opposed resupplying Castillo Armas with aircraft on the ground that if the action became known, Latin American countries would interpret it as intervention in Guatemala’s internal affairs, and this would have an adverse impact on United States relations with those countries. The President stated further that he made the decision at the meeting to replace the aircraft through the country which had originally supplied this equipment to Castillo Armas’ forces. For the President’s account, see Dwight D. Eisenhower, The White House Years: Mandate for Change, 1953–1956, pages 425–426.