DISCOVERY OF PLOT TO TAKE PUERTO BARRIOS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002100330012-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: November 30, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL ( l.L1GENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
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COUNTRY Cxuater.~3la
SUEJECT Discovery of Plot to lako Puerto Barrios
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l o ~ ~aturdt~y, ~3 TJo~rember 194, the Guatemalan Army broke up a sr~Il upris3aa~;
of revolutionaries and by Colonel i~faciado Casado in the vicinity of Puerto
}3arrios. The. ~rry reportedly tools twelve prisoners, fifty mschiz~e iris,
i'iftcaen thousand ratxnds of ammuaa.ition and an undisclosed n~m?oer of ~rQnadeso
2. The plot ~s uncovered ~~hen authorities found a fz?ei~ht carload of arms four
:~3Zes Out Of PuePtO ~ai'Y'iOS' ~rhich post3ibay may have been shipped- frog
Fl Salvador.
3. Ce,sado's g~.an was to capture Puerto Barrios, wherE he io said to have many
supporters, and then mas-ch on Guat~n.~,la City.
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