A family link to a shadowy chapter in Guatemalan and US history – in pictures
by Guardian Staff from on (#6HKXG)
Photographer and visual storyteller Annie Grossinger has used her own pictures and archival photos to reconstruct the career of her grandfather and CIA station chief John Dougherty, who was linked to the 1954 CIA-sponsored coup in Guatemala. Her book, Serpent Tongue, offers a personal narrative about this dark period in the history of the two nations
- Serpent Tongue is published by Daylight Books