POSSIBLE REORGANIZATION OF THE GOVERNMENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002700610005-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 23, 1998
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: April 21, 1949
• Content Type: IR

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CENTRAL INIEi I IGEN EN,.Y O RT NO.
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SUBJECT Possible Reorganization of the Government
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Dr., Pedro tilio Bonilla, who is reportedly a supporter of Osmin Aguirre
and his plotters against the Salvadoran government, stated that he received
a Liessage on 21 April 1949 from Francisco Jovel Wendez, Chief Clerk of
the Presidential House,, concerning a reorganization of the Cabinet and the
dissolution of the junta, Jovel Mendez claimed to have seen the Cabinet
changes written ixi tha handwriting of ;FP jor Oscar Osorio of the governing
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The proposed list of new Cabinet Ministers follows :
[Jr. -Humberto Costa
P,ntonio Rodriguez Forth
Dr. Reynaldo Galindo Pohl
Feliz J. Ose4gueda
Santiago Vi lanova Xreitz
Colo Jose Arturo Castellanos
Dr. Tr .nidac. Romero
Foreign Affairs
Sub-Secretary of Foreign Affairs
Education and Culture
Public Works
Agriculture
.Interior
Labor
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Source interpreted the above information as indicating that the junta
is cons..dering yielding to army pressure for a single head of government
end the elimination of the Vaca...
Field Comment,:, The, dissolution of, the junta is implied by the above Cabinet
reorganization ince Costs and Galindo Pohl are both members of the junta.
The . i.nistry of Defense has not been mentioned., but it will presumably go
to either Major Ooorio or Major bolanos while the other becomes provisional
president, There is also a strong possibility that the above information
is an attempt by Jove). Mendez to plant a false story among the Osminlstas o
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