The United States overthrew the Guatemalan government in 1954, employing for the first time operatives of the CIA, because
a. it mistreated agricultural workers.
b. it threatened to seize large agricultural estates owned by the United Fruit Company.
c. of repeated strikes by trade unionists.
d. it failed to pay the army regularly.
e. it was harboring kidnappers of American missionaries.
ANSWER:
b
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