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Opa-locka (FL) field was once the site of secret CIA base
http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/04/20/v-fullstory/3355871/opa-locka-field-was-once-the-site.htmlOpa-locka field was once the site of secret CIA base
BY ALFONSO CHARDY
Posted on Saturday, 04.20.13
All that remains of the secret CIA base is a grassy field on the northeastern corner of Opa-locka Airport.
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, who later went on to help engineer the 1972 Watergate burglary as one of the White House plumbers.
What happened at Building 67 was known at the time only to a very small circle of people, but the impact of the 1953-54 operation dramatically altered the history of South Florida and the United States.
