POSSIBLE COMMUNIST PENETRATION OF CARIBBEAN REVOLUTIONARY GROUP

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001800100002-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 4, 1999
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: August 17, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

CLASSf-IuATION
Approved For Relea?EMIEll9 WO'BEL
INFORMATI
IiO1INTRY Costa Rica
commonly known.
3UBJECT Possible Cossnunist ivnetration of Caribbean
Revolutionary Group `
PLACE
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DATE DISTR. August 1948
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25X1A6a SUPPLEMENT TON
REPORT NO. 25X1X6
the Grupos del Caribe (which is apparently.'
a new name for the Caribbean Revolutionary Junta, alias the Caribbean Legion)
are about to be advised by a group of four Spanish veterans of the International
Brigade who arrived in Costa Rica about I June 1948. The names of these
Spaniards are unknown at present, but one is reported to be an infantry
general who was the right-hand man of General Jose 2,1iaja during the Spanish
Civil war; another is said to be a ailitary engineer; the third is a military
aviation specialist acquainted with all phases of aerial warfare; sad the
fourth is an artillery officer. While these officers may not be out-and-
out Comuuiste, they are considered extreme leftists. A prominent ?iiaara m
who learned of their presence in Costa Rica stated that they do not work for 25X1X6
pay, which suggests the possibility that funds for their activities are
suprlied by someone whose connections with the Grupos del Garibe are not
Washington Comments A report dated 1 April 1948
assn ideology, i
these four Spaniards will effect an alliance
with Prudenoio Sayagues, who was Chief of Calderon Guardia's Intelligence
Service in 1945 and 1944 but is now an economic adviser in the Costa Rican
Ministry of Hacienda. Sayaguez, a native of Spain who was wounded while
fighting on the government side during the Spanish Civil rear, has been
described as a Communist with a criminal record, but Alberto Yarten,ttze 25X1X6
Minister of Hacienda, who appoi t position, denies
that Sayaguez is a Communist.* Sayagi~ez' position
in the treasury may afford him the opportunity to offer financial assistance
to the Grupos del Caribe, and that Sayaguez, together with the Spaniards,,
.will thus be able to guide the Grupos del Caribe along the lines of their
describes Sayaguez as a determined as ".- list but a comservative 25X1X6
left-winger.
'!'tft urn nit is hereby refire t to
CONF1D L to ~3ccordeince With the
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