Sunday, August 02, 2009

History Counts - August 2 at 10 pm

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. This program will be repeated on Thursday, August 6 at 12:30 PM and archived at www.historycounts.org. Interviewer: Ken MacDermotRoe Technorati tags: ,