PROJECTED REVOLUTION IN NICARAGUA

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CIA-RDP82-00457R002800230008-2
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RIPPUB
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S
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2
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December 15, 2016
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May 10, 2001
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8
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Publication Date: 
May 25, 1949
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REPORT
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COUNTRY Nicaragua/Coats Rica/Guatemala SUBJECT Projected Devolution in Nicaragua 25X1A Approved For ReleaPe4f4DEfIT RDP82-00457R002800230008-2 CLASSIFICATION ` CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO' INFORMATION REPORT CD NO. DATE DISTR. 25 may 1949 NO. OF PAGES 2 PLACE n NO. OF ENCLS. ACQUIRE rl to GA L -ary 25X1A (LISTED BELOW) DATE OF INFO. SUPPLEMENT TO to Roberto Gutierrez Silva, a Nicaraguan lawyer in Costa Rica with influence in the Uiate political group, has received a proposal from an emissary of General Carlos Pasos, Nicaraguan Conservative leader and revolutionary, that he support a Nicaraguan revolution scheduled to follow the first heavy rains in June 1949. Gutierrez requested that Pasos speak for himself' but in the discussion with the emissary received the followi4g general description of planes a. Pasos and Nicaraguan revolutionaries Adolfo Ortega Diaz and General Eniliano Chamorro are to be the political chiefs. Niguel Angel Ramirez, Dominican revolutionary now exiled in Guatemala, is to be the military chief, with Colonel Lanuel Gomez Flores in charge of the Costa Rican phase of the invasion. bo Plans are to attack Rivas, Nicaragua, with a major force coincident with guerrilla outbreaks in all parts of Nicaragua. Guerrillas are to be led by officers trained for the purpose who will be flown in, principally to the Las Segovias and Siuna mining areas where dissatisfied laborers will provide manpower for the guerrilla bands. Token bombings of unidentified kanagua targets will take place n1willt )xS3ouslara 20 Gutierrez surmnarized the political factors. surrounding the revolution by saying that Figueres of Costa Rica, President Arevalo of Guatemala, and President Prio of Cuba all consider the period Drior Otilio Ulate?s assumption of office in Costa Rica as the final opportunity 25X1A to comply with numerous revolutionary agreementso They are apparently disposed toward this view by the feeling that there is much to gain and little to lose. 3. Dario Echandi, who is best described as the right-hand man of Ulate, verified made a clandestine trip to Guatemala, from which he returned on 25X1A Approved For Release 2001/11/23: CIA-RDP82-0045*M2 Approved For Releas=fl~a~NA-IL2-00457R002800230008-2 25X1A 25X1X -2- 25X1A five r:,ore trips are necessary to complete the movement of revolutionary armament to Guatemala, begun on 5X1A also stated that some of this armament was being deposited at intermediate points in Nicaragua,, Juan Bosch, Dominican revolutionary now exiled in Habana Cuba notified Figueres that he would arrive in San Jose, Costa Rica, Cc enter The Nicaraguan revolutionary movement has been the subject of cons erable public comment during the past few days, the culmination of which was a newspaper denial by Figueres of his complicity 25X1A in the movement, The principal cause was the presence in Costa Rica of Adolfo Baez Bone, Ramirez,.Rosendo Arguello and other former Caribbean Legion members0 Reaction from Ulate or Somoza or the public could force Figueres to withdraw his overt support of the movement. 25X1 A CONFIDENTIAL ,-1 10 Approved For Release 2001/11/23 : CIA-RDP82-00457R002800230008-2