STATION CABLE FROM GUATEMALA

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02591421
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: July 13, 2023
• Document Release Date: August 31, 2022
• Case Number: F-2019-01230
• Publication Date: June 16, 1954

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GUAT 866 (IN 18837) 0132Z 17 JUN 514.
TO: OPIM SLING
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RE: LINO 3838 (IN 17978 )
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PRECEDENCE
CITE: SGUAT
1. IN VIEW CRITICAL SITUATION, RIPE PSYCHOLOGICAL MOMENT
AND IN COMPLIANCE REQUESTS MADE REFERENCE, AND SINCE DID NOT
KNOW WHEN ESQUIRE WOULD ARRIVE', BANNISTER MADE COLD APPROACH
ESPALIER ON MORNING 15 JUNE, ESPALIER CONVINCED BANNISTER
PILOT WHO HAD COME WITH SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS FROM CONSETO
FOR FAST ACTION PART OF ESPALIER, KNOWS BANNISTER ONLY BY
TRUE FIRST NAME,
2, ESPALIER FIRMLY TOLD THAT TIME IS COME, THAT HE GET
MOVING, TAKE OVER ARMY, AND THAT TIME LAST OPPORTUNITY FOR
ARMY TO SALVAGE ITS HONOR AND EVEN EXISTENCE,
3. HE AGREED, ADDED HE AND SUMAC 2 FULLY WORKING TO-
GETHER AND WOULD DRAW UP PLAN OF ACTION, WANTED STANDEL 1
ELIMINATED BY CONSEJO OR CALLIGERIS PEOPLE, WAS TOLD THAT
THIS HS PROBLEM AND HE EXPECTED TO HANDLE, OF IMPOSSIBLE
TAKE CARE ONE MAN WHAT PERCENTAGE HAVE ARMY,
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40. SECOND MEETING WITH ESQUIRE AND BANNISTER MORNING
16. JUNE.. SAID HE AND SUMAC 2. SURE THEY CAN TAKE OVER ARMY BUT
WILL NEED SHOW OF STRENGTH ON PART OPPOSITION. REQUESTED THAT
0)�.38 DROP BOMB DIRECTLY IN CENTER HIPPODROME LOCATED JUST WEST
OF LA AURORA AIRPORT* ALSO REQUESTED THAT PLANES BUZZ 18 JUNE
DEMONSTRATION AND IF POSSIBLE DROP TEAR GASo HE TOLD THE BOMB
COULD BE DROPPED AND POSSIBLV TEAR GAS AS WELL,
50 VITALLY IMPORTANT THIS BE DONE* SUGGEST AT LEAST ONE
LOUD BOMB ON HIPPODROME, THEY PLAN SEIZE CONTROL FROM DIAZ AND
MOVE.
60 ESPALIER SAID ALL GEAR DROPPED GUATELON WAS TURNED
OVER BY CAMPESINOS TO GUARDIA CIVIL WHO HANDED IT.TO ARMY* ARMY
VERY FRIGHTENED SIGHT THESE WEAPONS* WAS TOLD THIS WAS PSYCHO�.
LOGICAL DROP FOR THAT PURPOSE BUT THAT REAL DROPS ALSO BEING
-MADE. TOLD HE BETTER MOVE FAST, HE AGREED. SAID HE WOULD PUT
GUARDS AROUND ALL EMBASSIES AS SOON AS THEY MOVE SO THAT FOE
CANNOT ESCAPE. SAID ARBENZs COMMIES s AND ENEMIES WILL BE
EXECUTED,
70 AFTER MEETING HE DEPARTED TO MEET SUMAC 2 AND THEN PM3��
CEED LONE UP REGIMENTAL COMMANDERS ON CAPITAL.
86 NEXT MEETING MORNING 17 JUNE AT 0900.
90 ON, VIEW CHANGE FROM NEGOTIATIONS TO ACTION YOU WILL
APPRECIATE IMPOSSIBILITY REINSERTING PAGE IN CONTACT CHAIN*
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