GUATEMALA SITUATION REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00826A001000010003-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 6, 2006
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: July 1, 1966
• Content Type: IM

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OCI No. 1588/66
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Directorate of Intelligence
1 July 1966
Guatemala Situation Report
Julio Cesar Mendez Montenegro was inaugurated President
of Guatemala for a four-year term at 12:00 noon EDT.
Army Day was celebrated yesterday with a military parade
and an. air force fly-by. Last night Provisional President
Peralta gave a reception. for the visiting delegations. The
army was much in evidence in the streets as were plain-clothes
policemen, and no incidents were reported.
Last night Rafael Tischler Guzman.--Communist Party Central
Committee member--and two guerrillas of the 13 November Revolu-
tionary Movement were released from jail. Their release was
ordered by the newly appointed supreme court in an apparent
move to show the leniency and democratic orientation of the
new government.
Attorney Jose Roberto Serrano who was kidnaped by the
Communist Party's action arm, the Fuerzas Armadas Rebeldes
(FAR) on. 24 June has been released. Ranson had been. set at
$100,000. As of 30 June Serrano was trying to leave the
country for Mexico. Other members of prominent families may
follow his example.
Governor Connally's trip to the Indian village of Chichi-
castenango and Lake Atitlan came off yesterday without incident.
Governor Connally is scheduled to leave Guatemala at 0740 local
time tomorrow morning.
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