Operation PBHistory was a covert operation carried out in Guatemala by the United States Central Intelligence Agency. It followed Operation PBSuccess, which led to the overthrow of Guatemalan president Jacobo Árbenz (pictured) in June 1954 and ended the Guatemalan Revolution. PBHistory attempted to use documents left behind by Árbenz's government, police agencies, trade unions and the communist Guatemalan Party of Labour to demonstrate that the Guatemalan government had been under the influence of the Soviet Union. The documents uncovered by the operation proved useful to the Guatemalan intelligence agencies, enabling the creation of a register of suspected communists. The operation did not find evidence that the Guatemalan communists were controlled by the Soviet government, and could not counter the narrative that the United States had toppled the Árbenz government to serve the interests of the United Fruit Company.

Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_PBHistory

_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1814:

War of the Sixth Coalition: A French army led by Napoleon effectively destroyed a small Russian corps commanded by Zakhar Dmitrievich Olsufiev. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Champaubert

1919:

The Inter-Allied Women's Conference opened as a counterpart to the Paris Peace Conference, marking the first time that women were allowed formal participation in an international treaty negotiation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-Allied_Women%27s_Conference

1964:

The Royal Australian Navy aircraft carrier Melbourne collided with and sank the destroyer Voyager in Jervis Bay, killing 82 crew members aboard the latter ship. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne%E2%80%93Voyager_collision

2008:

The Namdaemun gate in Seoul, the first of South Korea's National Treasures, was severely damaged by arson. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Namdaemun_fire

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

pulse: 1. (uncountable) Annual leguminous plants (such as beans, lentils, and peas) yielding grains or seeds used as food for humans or animals; (countable) such a plant; a legume. 2. (uncountable) Edible grains or seeds from leguminous plants, especially in a mature, dry condition; (countable) a specific kind of such a grain or seed. 3. (physiology) 4. A normally regular beat felt when arteries near the skin (for example, at the neck or wrist) are depressed, caused by the heart pumping blood through them. 5. The nature or rate of this beat as an indication of a person's health. 6. (figuratively) A beat or throb; also, a repeated sequence of such beats or throbs. 7. (figuratively) The focus of energy or vigour of an activity, place, or thing; also, the feeling of bustle, busyness, or energy in a place; the heartbeat. 8. (chiefly biology, chemistry) An (increased) amount of a substance (such as a drug or an isotopic label) given over a short time. 9. (cooking, chiefly attributively) A setting on a food processor which causes it to work in a series of short bursts rather than continuously, in order to break up ingredients without liquidizing them; also, a use of this setting. 10. (music, prosody) The beat or tactus of a piece of music or verse; also, a repeated sequence of such beats. 11. (physics) 12. A brief burst of electromagnetic energy, such as light, radio waves, etc. 13. Synonym of autosoliton (“a stable solitary localized structure that arises in nonlinear spatially extended dissipative systems due to mechanisms of self-organization”) 14. (also electronics) A brief increase in the strength of an electrical signal; an impulse. 15. (transitive, also figuratively) To emit or impel (something) in pulses or waves. 16. (transitive, chiefly biology, chemistry) To give to (something, especially a cell culture) an (increased) amount of a substance, such as a drug or an isotopic label, over a short time. 17. (transitive, cooking) To operate a food processor on (some ingredient) in short bursts, to break it up without liquidizing it. 18. (transitive, electronics, physics) 19. To apply an electric current or signal that varies in strength to (something). 20. To manipulate (an electric current, electromagnetic wave, etc.) so that it is emitted in pulses. 21. (intransitive, chiefly figuratively and literary) To expand and contract repeatedly, like an artery when blood is flowing though it, or the heart; to beat, to throb, to vibrate, to pulsate. 22. (intransitive, figuratively) Of an activity, place, or thing: to bustle with energy and liveliness; to pulsate. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pulse

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.   --Boris Pasternak https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Boris_Pasternak