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> But its 1946 debut reflected a delay of more than a decade by the country’s real dictators, who disrupted the novel’s genesis and sent its author into exile. And in this act of suppression, Asturias’s censors and exilers were aided by the US, specifically the CIA.

It's in the first paragraph. Emphasis mine. How could the CIA have aided foreign dictators prior to its existence?

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The first sentence blames the delay on the dictator of Guatemala, quite explicitly. Then in the next sentence it says the CIA aided in the suppression of the novel, which it did.

The text never days the CIA delayed the novel, it says the CIA aided in suppressing the novel. The CCF didn't even exist until the 1950s.

"This act" refers to the delay. It is explicitly distinguished from other acts of suppression he faced at other points in his life.

OSS, maybe?

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