THEY WILL PRESENT AN INVITATION TO CARDINAL SPELLMAN TO ATTEND A GUADALUPIAN CONGRESS TO BE HELD IN MID-DECEMBER, 1953.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP08C01297R000400130005-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 12, 2012
• Sequence Number: 5
• Content Type: MISC

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? Idrehilahop. tier vIU present an inottetlem to Cardinal Spellman
Ito attead a. Onedtleplan 00egries te be bold La niotoDeeember 1953.
lire. ?eerie rstampsnitly ammlos 000 will be in 4;iland
for the opromatien eereneples. The Wield Salvadoran delegation
So the euronation is made alp of three lewd businesamen and (toffee
spowers Who williparthelr own sigramsse.
Thoi-dry season ended an the night er April 27, when the first
substantial rains ton .San
iglichas
. The Chief or Starr, Colonel NOMA, in a sonvorsation with the
Army **tibia& on April 30 eoufirmod tho fact that the reserves had been
alerted in Yobrumry in order to improve Salvadoran military oapabill.
ties la Oa_shoGtost possible period. At that time, it. was roared
,that the CMCItneeting, than scheduled for Say 2 in Guatemala City,
would tuma.liato smother .Sogotanow. Assording to mains, an extensive
'men sPathing program is still being eondueted on weekends at all
regineatal .usmt.ls in Sb. eountry but no reserves have boon Galled
beck into regular sovviee.
Tb. OuatenalanAllitari Attaehd in Alm Salvador, Col.
MALTA AsirdiaA,has been resalled and Plans to leave San Salvador
early in May. vol. !Oralta'belleves he will resolve another Attashd
assignmeWbut that it will be far removed from Central Amplest. He
is reportod to haveAmpressod the opinioniorivately that his resell
Was the result of his "sympathy for, and very *lose relations with,
Sb. Salvadoran Asime. ?
The ims unit in El Salvador has reoelirod from tho Army Alp
SorvImo six work sheets or a l/:1,000 amateur nap covering tho entire
United Nations Demonstration Area IA MI Salvador. This area insluden
900 square miles in the approximate *enter of El Salvador, extending
from San Salvador almost to Santa Ana and North to within a few miles
of tho Neadurem Seeder. The maps are eomploto except for field edit-
Ing.and solo, prIatieg. The 'Chief of the IAGS detaehmont OrtNatom
that field editing by the Cartographie Bureau will require approxi.
'lately one nonth4
The l/20.000 nap eerie. or the Salvaderan-Onatenalan border whisk
have been prepared by the Cartoarephis Sure= for the Minister of
Defense as s' Priority sebedule will prebably be delivered to the
Serene* Ministry abseil Bay 10 Meeks as. 13, Marah 27. 1953). /169
Reps have beam outmoded as tar as possible Into Guatemala by radial
has plots. Control is poor and the asps reportedly *metals nany
ineeeuresiesi. Pena limes have bees need in plass of eisatours. the
Dues top or the Cartegrephts Sore's stated that the mops were 'adequate
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Fmm_Ran Aalvada, COWIDAIRTIAL Bscl. No.
(Clarification) Dap. No?_______
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for the present needs of the Minister of Defense' but that he would I
want to reoampile the portions within S1 Salvador before incorporat.
Lag data in the nap sections currently being prepared as a part of
the official IAOS mapping program.
Fbr the Ambassador:
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4ndrew S. Donovan, II
naslor of Babassy
Contributor:
Military - Lt. Col. Renry J. Muller
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