Thursday, August 06, 2009

History Counts 12:30 pm Thursday August 6

Overthrowing Governments 101 Have you ever wondered how the CIA overthrows foreign governments? We show how it s done by examining in detail the CIA orchestrated coups in Iran 1953, Guatemala 1954, and Chile 1973. Our guest Stephen Kinzer, a former New York Times bureau chief, is the author of Overthrow, All the Shah s Men, an American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror and Bitter Fruit: the Untold Story of the American Coup in Guatemala. History Counts is archived at www.historycounts.org. Technorati tags: ,