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The 1997 Census of Government says it best... "There were 87,504 governmental units in the United States as of June 1997. In addition to the Federal Government and the 50 state governments, there were 87,453 units of local government. Of these, 39,044 are general purpose local governments - 3,043 county governments and 36,001 subcounty general purpose governments, including 13,726 school distict governments and 34,683 special district governments."
The CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) was the US spy organization who manipulated a number of situations internationally to secure friendly governments to the US during the Eisenhower years.
Both the 10th and 16th Ammendments to the US Constitution give the Federal Government power of State Governments.
They were all an effort to control and use the natural resources of Central America. The USA had a large number of businesses in Central America and every president wanted to control their abilities to produce the product and to control the governments of those countries, to make sure those governments didn't get in the way of USA's interests.