REQUEST FOR A NATIONAL ESTIMATE ON GUATEMALA

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79R01012A002000010024-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 24, 2012
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: November 27, 1951
• Content Type: MEMO

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FORM NQ. 51-10
FEB 1950
113-61155-1 R. S. GOVERNMENT PRINtING OFFICE
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SECUR TY INFORMATION
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director, Office of National Estimates
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SUBJECT: Request for a National Estimate on Guatemala
REFERENCES:
a. Memorandum of Conversation with State
Department, 19 July 1951 (TS 61213).
b. Memorandum, C & D Branch, OPC,
26 October 1951.
1. OPC considers that Guatemala constitutes the most imme-
diate problem for OPC activity in the area of responsibility of the
Western Hemisphere Division--a position the State Department has
confirmed in the first memorandum of reference. Inasmuch as the
situation in Guatemala is complex and requires the greatest discre-
tion in any covert moves to be made by the United States Govern-
ment, it appears appropriate to call upon the full intelligence facili-
ties of the Government in the preparation of plans for future action.
2. The Office of National Estimates, therefore, is respectfully
requested to authorize and direct a complete study of the present
Guatemalan situation in its implications and possibilities regarding
United States security interests in the Western Hemisphere, and to
transmit it to WHD/OPC by 1 March 1952.
KILBOURNE J HNSTON
Assistant Dire tor for
Policy Coordination
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