“I declare,” says he, “and I will challenge all mankind to contradict my declaration, that no man can give any account of the Order of Free Masonry, of its origin, of its history, of its object, nor any explanation of its mysteries and symbols, which does not leave the mind in total uncertainty on these points. Every man is entitled, therefore, to give any explanation of the symbols, and any system of the doctrines, that he can render palatable.”

Operations ‘PBFORTUNE’ and ‘PBSUCCESS’ were the CIA code names of the 1952 and 1954 attempts to topple the Guatemalan government under the democratically elected president Jacobo Arbenz Guzman.