ANTI-CARIAS ACTIVITIES IN GUATEMALA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001000660008-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 11, 1999
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: November 7, 1947
• Content Type: IR

Approved For Release 19 82-004578001 25X1A2
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP
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12506
COUNTRY
Guatemala/ Honduras
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,WBJECT
Anti-Caries Activities in Guatemala
?1ST. Ir'November 1947
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Chief of the Armed
a cog: nittee of Honduran, exiles reorosenting a group
known E,s the Liberal Denocratic Party had a conference with the suatemelan
Minister of Defense early in September. The subject discussed eras how an
armed mover.-tent from Guatemala might be successful in overthrowing President
Carias of . Honduras. 25X1 X6
the present leaders of Guate-
mala would like to -?ive concrete assistance to such a project, but are
forced to act with extreme ofution because of the number of Caritas agents
in Guatemala. The Arevalo governr:.ent feels tea insecure internally to
risk an accusation of starting a nover.ent against Car irzs, because such a
move ent could work both ways. However, by the oblique method of sending
arcs to Nicaragua anc having, any expedition start from Nicaraguan soil,
the double purpose of avoiding Honeuran charges anr' of eabarrasein '.a :--:cza 25X1X6
mirrht be served. This policy may explai:a the. Gua-
tersalan governrient4'a reoont confiscation o arms c two Hondurans, Col.
Edelmiro Isaule and Lendeli:io Qui jado, were attempting to run directly from'
Guaterala into northeastern Honduras.
3. The Liberal Der~ocratic Party was refused admission last July into the group
known at the A ante Reveoluwionario Dem.ocratico Hondureno on the ;rounds that
th.. Party followed no ideology, but only sought to overthrow ons dictator
to replace hin with another. The leader of the Frente Revolucicnario is
Corsuniot T'edardo Lejia.
document contains informati,~n
affedt a national defense of the
United States n the meaning of
the Espionage Ac , U.S.C. 31 and
32 as amended. Its tr sion or
the revelation of its conten any
c manner to an unauthorized person
prohibited by lace,
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