Birch O'Neal
Birch Dilworth O'Neal (c.1913 – August 28, 1995) was the CIA station chief in Guatemala in 1953, succeeding Collins Almon.[1] When the CIA began Operation PBSuccess, whose goal was to overthrow Guatemalan president Jacobo Arbenz, O'Neill objected, so director Allen Dulles transferred him out so that the operation could proceed..[2][3]
O'Neal was born in Bainbridge, Georgia.[4]
References
- ^ Immerman, Richard H. (1982). The CIA in Guatemala: The Foreign Policy of Intervention. University of Texas Press. p. 134. ISBN 0-292-71083-6.
- ^ Kinzer, Stephen; The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and their secret war; 2013; p. 165
- ^ Kinzer, Stephen (2006). Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq. Henry Holt and Company LLC. ISBN 0-8050-8240-9.
- ^ "Obituary". Tallahassee Democrat. 30 August 1995. Retrieved 21 November 2022.