It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
originally posted by: EndtheMadnessNow
a reply to: Tanga36
Interesting, Opa-locka, Florida was developed based on a One Thousand and One Nights theme...Arabian Nights. This little city has quite the interesting history!!
But 60 years ago on that very spot was Building 67, a two-story barracks, that in 1953 and 1954 served as CIA field headquarters for the covert operation that overthrew leftist Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz.
It was there that several senior CIA officers labored for months organizing the intricate logistical details of PBSUCCESS, the code name for the anti-Arbenz operation. Among the officers who worked at Building 67 was E. Howard Hunt...
“Desire to assure all concerned that recent exposé of alleged activities pertaining PBSUCCESS although unfortunate some respects fortunate in others,” wrote Dunbar from Opa-locka to the Central America CIA officers on Feb. 2, 1954. “Further this incident has not affected PBSUCCESS objective any way.”
PBSUCCESS, in some ways, served as the template for the 1961 Bay of Pigs operation.
Miami Herald
Opa-locka city hall: