Give Us This Day

by E. Howard Hunt

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870002287
• ISBN13: 9780870002281
• Release Date: January 1973
• Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
• Length: 235 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The Man who Kept the Secrets

E. Howard Hunt served time for his role in Watergate. An eery out-from-the-shadows spook from the coldest days of the Cold War, few if any readers will be aware of his role at the epicenter of US policy in Guatemala and later Castro's Cuba in the early days when the bearded one hadn't fully solidified his grip on that nation. This is an interesting book. Amazing candor given the presumably embarassing material it covers. Today few Americans know the complete story of how our CIA actively helped overthrow the leftish govt of Guatemala. It was the transparency of this US action which (along with other things he'd witnessed in a long vagabond/moocher tour of South AMerica) convinced the young Argentine Dr Ernesto Guevara to "throw in his lot" with progressive socialistic movemts around the world. Guevara the young academic Marxist idealist depicted in the autobiographical film "The Motorcycle Diaries" would later meet up with soulmates in Mexico. He would befriend the Castro brothers and greatly assist them in their communization of Cuba. Thousands of regime opponents were brutally executed at the hands of Guevara who has been likened to the Soviet psychopath Lavrenti Beria or Hitler's SS fiend, Heinrich Himmler. One could argue that Guevara would have become a sociopathic mad murderer and globe-trotting crusader for Communism irrespective of what the US CIA did or didnt do in Guatemala. The leftish Guatemalan prime minister refused to give weaponry to the civilians and thus his govt was easily overthrown by the US-backed and installed strongman. E Howard Hunt played no small role in overthrowing the socialist oriented but democraticly elected Guatemalan govt in 1954. Thus, one could argue that this dedicated CIA agent so fluent in Spanish helped create and launch the Che Guevara legend. Later on, Hunt helped out with the ill-starred invasion of anticommunist Cuban exiles who were either slain or captured and imprisoned at the Bay of Pigs. A good companion to this book would be the one written by longtime CIA agent Felix Rodriguez who helped track down and kill the captured Che Guevara in Bolivia in 1967