ABSENCE OF COMMUNIST INFILTRATION IN GUARDIA CIVIL OF GUATEMALA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R004700040008-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 11, 2001
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: April 13, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Guatemala
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SUSJECT Absence of Co ?.inist Infiltration in Guardia Civil. NO, OF PAGES 1
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1, The Comaunists In Guatemala have not made any persistent attempts to
penetrate the Guardia Civil, according to source, [he director of the
Guardia, Colonel Victor Sandoval,, who is a brother--ire-iasr of President
Juan Jose Arevalo and aman of moderate ideas, has sincerely tried to
maintain the efficiency and non-political character of the Guardia
u ich is almost entirely a career organization, ,
2, In the event of a victory at the polls for Colonel Jacobo Arbenz in the
forthooDing presidential electi.ons, source believes that Arb?nz would
replace Colonel Sandoval., The possibility of his appointing a Guardia
director more f.:worable to Cor unism in the best opportunity for the
Conmaniste to grin influence in the organization, in the opinion of source,
o uent4 The Guardia is a national police force similar to that
25X1 A o in riany Latin American countries, It has police jurisdiction over
all the territa7 of Gunter~ la,) operates its an radio station (TM,
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Voz do la Guardia Civil. , publishes its own bi-monthity nagazine, ?nd
operates a police school, Also, it maintains a very snail intelligence
unit, although the th ardia Judicial, which is completely independent of
the Guardia Civil:) does practically all plain-clothes investigating in
the countryb At the present time the Guardia Civil has a total of about
four thousand saven hundred mend
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