The primary sources chosen to help solve this research question are drawn from UFC corporate documents, declassified CIA reports, U.S. State Department memoranda, and Árbenz’s own words. Together these sources reveal how the United Fruit Company’s information control strategies operated. These sources display the complexity of the topic because they display that the United Fruit Company didn’t utilize just one strategy. Throughout their rule, the UFC used multiple strategies over many timeframes to achieve their dominance over Central America.