REDS PLOT TO WIN GUATEMALA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74-00297R001100670023-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 14, 2013
• Sequence Number: 23
• Publication Date: January 21, 1958
• Content Type: MEMO

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 f L~VV -,rzK MIKKit/ic JNIV 10 1958
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Reds Plot to Win Guatemala!
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
By DREW PEARSON
? WASHINGTON Jan. 9. -Counter agents who have been
shadowing Guatemalan exiles in Mexico City, have turned In a de-
tailed report to the Central Intelligence Agency giving names and
details of a. Red plot to overthrow the Guatemalan Government.
The report warns that the Moscow-minded rulers, who were
driven out of Guatemala in 1995 by Col. Castillo Armas and a CIA-
supported revolution, are conspiring to return to power.
"The Gnater clan political exi es," the report claims, "are try-
ing to unite thhe sectors which are divided, namely, the followers
of Juan, Jose Arevalo and Jacobo Arbesis (the former pro Coanmu-
Mst President); those which In Guatemala are partisans oft Mario
Mendez Montenegro."
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SOME PLOTTERS were observed entering the Czechoslovakian
Embassy In Mexico City on November 27.
"On Wednesday, November 27, a watchfulness was set up on
Villamar Contreras (a Red-tainted Guatemalan ex11Q), `sa the re-
port to the CIA. "At noon across from the Capitol Hotel, this In-
dividual met two persons apparently Europeans as well as a Guata
malan named Petiche. After this, all of them got Into a taxi and
went toward the Czechoslovakian Embassy. The first to leave the
legation was Petiche, the Guatemalan, who stayed 15 minutes in
that house. Half an hour later irillamar Contreras went out. The
Europeans remained inside."
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Quoting an exile who had talked with Arevalo, the report said
Arevalo "let him know that by the end of the current month
(D4eember), a revolt will break out In Guatemala, supported by
Colonel Paz TeJada, Colonel Was, Colonel Monzon, and Colonel
Pedro Meyer, who will assume the command of the Fifth Military
Area of Quetzaltensngoo
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"CAPTAIN ALFONSO MARTINIlJ3 ESTEVES ... would break
In Guatemala through Ayutla heading mote than a thousand peas-
ants and Revolorio Reyes with a similar force would help the move.
mint.
"According to Information I have, they are preparing actively
In a place near Tapachula (on tip Guatemalan frontier). The liai-
sons with the Guatemalan peasants are: Revolorio Reyes, Celada
Crozo and Max Salazar. These persons receive watchwords from
Mexico City through an Individual named Ernesto Renero. The
meeting places In Tapachula are: to pension Bonanpak, the house
of Revolorlo Reyes,?the house of Celada Crozo and the newspaper
IG Sol Del Soconusco."
(O 111*, by The $ 5 arMkaU, Ix.)
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