A hammer, axe, wrench, screw driver, fire poker, kitchen knife, lamp stand, or anything hard, heavy and handy will suffice.
Absolute reliability is obtained by severing the spinal cord in the cervical region.
It is not hard to see why the agency's Directorate of Operations opposed the decision of the C.I.A.'s historical staff to declassify the documents. Arbenz and his top aides had been able to flee the country, but after the C.I.A. put Castillo Armas in power, hundreds of Guatemalans were rounded up and some killed. Between 1954 and 1990, human rights groups estimate, successive military regimes have murdered more than 100,000 civilians. Indeed, at a time when Washington has taken a leading role in demanding that the Swiss examine their dark past and atone for it, the U.S. intervention in Guatemala demands a similar accounting and rectification. D.C. Join a discussion in the Digital Edition Forums .