COMMUNIST INFLUENCE IN NICARAGUAN REVOLUTIONARY ACTIVITIES

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002800590011-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 11, 2000
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: June 13, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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l.:> Adolfo Baez Bone9 close revolutionary friend of Figueres and former Chief of
Intelligence for the Caribbean Legion, returned to :3an Jose, Costa Rica,
from Guatemala on 20 r.i y 1949, ostensibly to conduct a private business deal
in beans between Costa Rica and Guatemala 3 When he arrived at the San Jose
airport., Baez Bone left two suitcases in bond with customs, which were later
rifled by a customsg employee contrary to instructions that effects of
Caribbean revolutionary personnel were not to be molested. The employee found
the luggage to contain only a few personal effects and a large quantity of
anti-?Figueres, Communist propaganda bulletins,, which were prepared and printed
In Guatemala,,
Communist influence in Car. ibbean revolutionary groups has always been a
possibility,y, but this'incident is the first direct connection of the sort
yet made It is probably best explained as the result of the inordinate
influence now attained by leftist elements of the Guatemalan government
in revolutionary circles
On 24 May 1949 Baez Bone held a reunion with Iiguel Ramirez, Alejandro
Cardenas., Federico Sclorzano Montiel, Adolfo Ortega Diaz, Federico Cabrera,
and other Caribbean revolutionary personnel. Baez Bone brought with him
a document written by Edelberto Torres describing the general political
tent of the future Nicaraguan government, which all present signed..
T ez Bone at the same time announced himself as the representative of
.'orres, which must mean that the latter is now an accepted political leader
of the Nicaraguan revolutionary -movement, At the conclusion of the n},eting
the revolutionaries were assured by Baez Bone that neither personel,, money
aor material was lacking for a revolution directed at the overthrow of
Somoza,,
Comment
eports that strained relations have been developing between Costa Rica and
Guatemala have hitherto been considered by at least two prominent Costa
scans? President-elect Otilio Ulate and Mario Echandi, Ulate's right-hand
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an, as :here; camouflage to hide revolutionary arrant?ersents between Figucres
and Preoident ttreva.i o of Cuatemala a There have even been Nell-eatz?.b:Liuhcd
^ports to indicate that Figueres has made two clandestine trips to
dua ~effia 1.a c. Tin ;+ ~rii and ay 1949, the last occurring on 17-1 1,Tay.
The foregoing information tends to ne-ate the above
.iypo hesis that revolutionary arrangements exist between the two cointriesp
pond it makes an appraisal of Costa Rica.-Guaterna.la relations even more
;;puzzling;.,
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