POLITICAL ACTIVITIES OF GUATEMALAN LEFTISTS

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00423R001800360003-0
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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 22, 1999
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: March 31, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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Political Activities of Guatemalan Leftists
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I, Guatemalan Communists in New Orleans
1. Saturnino Ruano and Lie, Ysidro Lemus, from Guatemala, both believed
to be Communistically inclined, were seen in New Orleans together
recently Early 195 with a New Orleans resident believed also
to be Communistically inclined, and one Roberto Bianchi,, a resident
of Guatemala characterized by the source as "likeable, unstable,
and having marW connections". Roberto Bianobi is the son# of
Dr. Julio Bianchi, Minister of Public Health in the first cabinet
under President Arevalo, who was exiled to Ventura, California, for
, rumored to be one of
12 years; the cousin of Alfonso Martinez
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the assassins of Colonel Javier Arana; the husband of a Honduran
girl; and the brother-in-law of Roberto Fan Jul., who is now in
exile in Mexico and who married Roberto Bianchits sister and was
Minister of Economy, under ex-President b nz. Guatemalan Communists,
maries inknown, now"&xile in Mexico City are rumored to have met with
the above four persons in New Orleans during the greater part of
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2. Alfredo Castaneda, the kingpin of
the pro-Communist pilots of the Empress Guatemalteca de Aviacion
(Aviateca) while ex-President Ar*enz was in power, is believed to
have smuggled about 500 small arms from New Orleans to Guatemala,
a few at a time, on his regular freight run. There has been no
reason to believe that this has been for the particular benefit
of the Communists, however,
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3, Two hundred anti-Communists were executed between August 1954
and October 1954 by one Colonel Rosendo Perez although a few
were saved through the pleas of a United Fruit Company
representative.
4. During August 1954, while Colonel Rosendo Pere+was in charge
of the Bananera area? 10 anti-Communists who had joined the
Communist Perty .f behalf of the United Fruit Company were
executed, During the month of October 1954, 50 more at Tiquisate
were executed by Colonel Rosendo Perez. During the intervening
period 100 more were executed in scattered areas of Guatemala.
All those killed were anti-Communists who had joined the Communist
Party because the United Fruit Company desired some knowledge
of its plans, and all those executed were, known to the executioners
as anti-Communists. Colonel Rosendo Perez is believed to be
25X1 Xtssigned to the Tapachula area at present.
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