GUATEMALAN WHO AIDED CIA NOW SEEKING HELP

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100060007-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 17, 2000
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: October 15, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

WASHINGTON STAR
Approved For Release 2000/08/03 : CIA-RDP75-001
OCT 15 1964 . .
Guemcilw Who Aide
OA N`ow Seeking Help.
By JE REMIAH O'LEARY
Lath America, writer of The Star
Roberto Alejos, the man who provided the Central Intelligence Agency with training areas in Guatemala for the Bay
of Pigs invasion, is appealing to the Organization of American
States to help end the exile into which he has been cast by the,;
He ' said the Guatemalans
must be ' given their rights of
free speech, assembly, home
inviolability, petition and fair
trial if the nation is to retund to
constitutional order.
The United States extended
recognition to.. the P.oralta; re-
psno' a few, weeks ~ wafter . the
now rules without a constitution
is acting In an "iron-fisted and
arbitrary manner, persecuting
political adversaries and grossly denying the Guatemalan
people their essential rights."
Alejos appeared yesterday before the Inter-American Cotn.4
mission of Human Rights,
headed by Manuel Bianchi of revolution, Peralta NO prom
Chile, to ask, intercession on his ised Guatemala a new constitun:
behalf with the government of tion by March 15 and elections'
Col. Enrique Peralta Azurdia. six months after that.
The wealthy 43 - year - old Alejos declared it Is a mis
Guatemalan politician and land- take to recognize any military`
owner told reporters after the regime anywhere in the world.
OAS session that he-has been There will never be any order'
living in exile in Miami since he said, if "every little man In
shortly after the Peralta coup uniform" can disrupt a legal
d'etat in March, 1963. government by force of arms.
He said he was seized when He said his large coffee plan
he tried to reburn'to Guatemala tation, "Helvetia," the training
last May and was held prisoner ground used by the anti-Oastro'
for two days before being flowm Brigade 2506 before the Bay of
to Nicaragua in a military Pigs invasion, has been sold,
plane. Alejos said he believes but he -believed anti-Castro
the Peralta government wanted commando forces are using
him out of the country because other properties of his in. Gua-
he was one of the candidates temala for training.
for the presidency in the No. Other anti-Castro Cubans' are
vember, 1963, election canceled training on property : of the
by the Peralta coup. .ruling Somoza family.
Alejos declared the junta that Alejos said he is now in i-.h'e
overthrew the government of construction business iuk' Miami:
Miguel Ydireras Fuentes and
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