American intelligence and national security officials have cited such operations as an example of how Beijing is waging “a cold war” against the United States, as a senior CIA official put it last year, often through unconventional means. ..…

Fearing that communism would spread across the hemisphere, U.S government repeatedly interfered in the politics of Latin American nations during Cold War.. In 1954 CIA worked with elements of Guatemalan military to overthrow elected President Jacobo Árbenz. ..…