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A telephone conversation memorandum (FRUS 1952-54 Guatemala, Document 252), dated June 28, 1954, records John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles coordinating directly on the coup's operational status. John Foster Dulles stated that "our side must use more air power" and that CIA air operations were "excellent and effective." Regarding the accidental sinking of a British vessel by CIA-supported forces, John Foster Dulles said "No authority was given for this. However, we can't say it," documenting both operational awareness and deliberate deniability.[^pb2]
A second telephone memorandum (FRUS 1952-54 Guatemala, Document 189), dated June 16, 1954, records Dulles telling Allen Dulles that Standard Oil of [[New Jersey]] executives had met with Allen about "the small country down south," and that John Foster wanted to "possibly slow things up without formalized action," referencing a Senate sanctions bill he had drafted but found unsatisfactory.[^pb3]
A second telephone memorandum (FRUS 1952-54 Guatemala, Document 189), dated June 16, 1954, records Allen Dulles telling John Foster Dulles that he was seeing "men from Standard of NJ" that morning, who would "lay before him their position with regard to the small country down south," and that besides finding out their position he would "possibly slow things up without formalized action"; the Secretary asked whether [[Bourke B. Hickenlooper]] might introduce a sanctions bill in the Senate.[^pb3]
After Arbenz's resignation and the installation of a new government, Dulles delivered a national radio address in June 1954 framing the coup as a spontaneous Guatemalan rejection of Soviet infiltration. He asserted that communists had "dominated the social security organization and ran the agrarian land reform program," and praised the restoration of "peace and freedom to that sister Republic." The address made no reference to U.S. covert involvement. The full text was published in the *Department of State Bulletin*.[^pb4]