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===Lobbying for Regime Change:=== UFCO’s influence within the Eisenhower administration was formidable. [[John Foster Dulles]] (Secretary of State) and [[Allen Dulles]] (CIA Director) had ties to UFCO’s law firm, Sullivan & Cromwell, while Walter Bedell Smith (Under Secretary of State) sought a UFCO executive role. UFCO hired [[Spruille Braden]], a former ambassador, and [[Thomas G. Corcoran]], a lobbyist, to pressure Washington. Its PR firm, [[Edward L. Bernays]], orchestrated media campaigns, including articles in The New York Times and Time, framing Árbenz as a communist threat. A 1953 UFCO report, cited in Bitter Fruit by Stephen Schlesinger and Stephen Kinzer, falsely claimed Soviet arms shipments to Guatemala.
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