Operation Washtub
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| Date | May 7, 1954, |
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| Location | Nicaragua, Guatemala |
| Perpetrators | CIA, Anastasio Somoza García |
Operation WASHTUB was a covert operation organized by the United States Central Intelligence Agency to plant a phony Soviet arms cache in Nicaragua. It was a part of the CIA's effort to portray the administration of Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz as having ties to the Soviet Union, prior to the CIA sponsored 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état which overthrew Árbenz later the same year.
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