Episode 165 - SS Springfjord

This week we have the saga of the SS Springfjord, which survived World War Two unscathed but could not escape the wrath of the Central Intelligence Agency. The Sameer Project Sources: Handy, Jim. Gift of the Devil: A History of Guatemala. South End Press, 1984. Handy, Jim. Revolution in the Countryside: Rural Conflict and Agrarian Reform in Guatemala, 1944 - 1954. University of North Carolina Press, 1994. Prados, John. The Ghosts of Langley: Into the CIA’s Heart of Darkness. The New Press, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20101105080457/http://www.foia.cia.gov/docs/DOC_0000919986/DOC_0000919986.pdf https://www.nytimes.com/1954/07/01/archives/the-text-of-dulles-speech-on-guatemalan-upset.html Support the show