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Durante un buen tiempo, antes de que apareciera Howard Hunt, su único contacto fue Kevin L. Smith, el director de la United Fruit en Honduras. Él le hizo saber que «ellos» lo habían elegido finalmente a él para que dirigiera el Ejército Liberacionista. El mismo Smith lo llevó en su avión particular a Florida, donde, diecinueve kilómetros al norte d

Then Stevenson’s lawyers turned to the 201 names listed after Soliz on the poll list of voters—200 of whom, the tally sheet said, had voted for Lyndon Johnson. Brownlee had taken nine of these names down during his brief look at the poll list, and the young lawyers had jotted down additional names. They asked each of these people if they had voted

Justice Black had just signed an order directing that all proceedings in the case be stayed “until further order of the Supreme Court.” Shoving his way through the spectators jamming the courtroom door, the deputy sheriff ran up to Dudley Tarleton and whispered to him. The white-haired attorney, oratorical tricks forgotten for once, leaped up and w

Para el exhausto diplomático no había llegado todavía la hora del descanso. Luego de los festejos, el Departamento de Estado le ordenó colaborar estrechamente con la CIA, que, lograda la erradicación de Árbenz, debía borrar todos los trazos de la participación de los Estados Unidos en la Operación PBSuccess. Era indispensable que no quedara rastro

Because campaign contributions were not a deductible business expense, Brown & Root distributed to company executives and lawyers hundreds of thousands of dollars in deductible “bonuses” and “attorneys’ fees,” which Internal Revenue Service agents came to believe were then funneled, in both checks and cash, to the Johnson campaign—contributions