Coverup Quotes



This covert project — PBSUCCESS — to destabilize Guatemala was exposed by the Guatemalan government. To minimize the embarrassment in the U. S., the PBSUCCESS CIA staff asked headquarters to fabricate sensational stories to keep newspapers and the fledgling TV news busy and distracted from covering the Guatemala story that the CIA was trying to destabilize the government in order to bring about regime change. The CIA was prohibited by law from doing this but the agency at that time ignored many laws. It is not known if the phony stories were actually planted at that time.


Mayor Rudy Giuliani was offended by the statement, which even thou accurate, in the Mayor’s view should not have been a major criterion of anything. For Sharpton, It was a calculated gamble that for some voters backfired in the mayor’s favor as there was some job backlash about the land against quotas and ethnically proportional policies.