NICARAGUAN REVOLUTIONARY ACTIVITIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002800450002-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 31, 2000
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: June 8, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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1 Fedoric:o $olorzano _.ontiel, Nicaraguan ldviyer and revolutionist now residing
in San Jose, Costa Rica, dispatched the following message on 11 May 1949
to General ..miliano Chamorro, the former Nicaraguan Conservative leader now
exiled in Guatemala:
"Possibly 62650SCO arrives plane tomorrow carrying four letters."
2 The plane referred to is,probably the converted B-18 bomber bearing Costa
Rican No,. TI-205 which has been making frequent flights between the two
countries, transporting revolutionary armament into Guatemala? The plane
was scheduled to leave San Jose for Guatemala on 19 May, piloted by a
"exjcan named Raul Vel..sco,, but was forced by motor trouble to delay its
departure?,* The individual who is the subject of the above message cannot
be identified from the coded text..
3 Jsteban Rovira y Pacheco, Loyalist Spaniard and former henchman of Rosendo
Arguello, Jr., stated that plans to attack Gencral Soxnoza in Nicaragua -;ere
being made under the unified direction of General Sniiliano Chamo.;ro in
Guatemala and General Carlos Pesos in Costa Rica, with the cooperation of
the Guatemalan and Costa Rican governmentsa the part to be played by former
leader Rosendo rsrgueli.o, Jr? was described r:.s uinor, to consist entirely
of his cooperation and the use of his boat, the Toiloni, a former
U. S> Navy patrol craft,
Comment. There are serious rumors to indicate that a resurgence of
Nicaraguan revolutionary activity can be expected to occur soon. One rumor
is that a large amount of Nicaraguan cordoba currency, to be used as invasion
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C"NFIDENTIAL in accordance with the
'!:`ter of 16 October 1978 from the
D'.odor of Central Intelligence to the
Archivist of the United States.
Next Review Date: 2008
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