CABLE FROM LINCOLN FOR LANGEVIN PROVIDING INSTRUCTION 8 FOR SHERWOOD BROADCAST

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00136241
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: July 13, 2023
• Document Release Date: August 31, 2022
• Case Number: F-2019-01230
• Publication Date: June 18, 1954

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FOR LANGEVIN. INSTRUCTION 8.
1. FOLLOWING ABRIDGED TRANSLATION ACTUAL REPORT. PUT
NEXT PROGRAM AFTER RECE i PT (RECONSTRUCT FULL SENTENCES IN
RE�TRANSLATING):
2. ( I NTRODUCT I ON : ) WE RECEIVED FOLLOWING SINCERE, REVEALING
MESSAGE FROM ARMY GENERAL STAFF OFFICER ACTIVE DUTY.
3. (BEGIN TEXT) COMMUNIST OF FENS I VE AGAINST GUAT ARMY AS
MA IN PERMANENT I NST I TUT i ON NOT CONTAMINATED BOLSHEV IST IDEOLOGY
IS SPEARHEADED BY PRESIDENT ARBENZ, ALREADY END 1953 ARBENZ
HELD MEETING 400 OFFICERS, WHERE IN TWO HOURS LECTURE HE TRIED
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CONVINCE US THAT COMM UOI 18EST ALLY - AGAINST DANGER YANKEE
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IMPERIALISM. TUESDAY! 8 juNt A 954 ANOTHER SUCH CONFERENCE AT
GENERAL STAFF HEADQUARTERS. WE OFFICERS WERE INVITED SUBMIT
WRITTEN QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE LIBERTY. PRETEXT WAS PRESIDENT
WANTED INFORM US ABOUT DOMESTIC, INTERNATIONAL POL IT SI TUAT I ON .
TRUE REASON: ARBENZ WANTED SECURE COLLABORATION ARMY TO SUPPORT
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IT IS FORBIDDEN TO MAKE A COPY OF THIS MESSAGE
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EXPANSION COMMUNISM IN GUATD BUT IS SCARED TO DEATH.
40 MEETING WAS ATTENDED BY CHIEFS OF MILITARY ORGANIZATIONSD
DIRECTORS OF SCHOOLS D ALL GENERAL STAFF AND DEFENSE MINISTRY
OFFICERS. ARBENZ SPOKE FOUR HOURS 0 FROM I. TO 8 P.M. ALL OFFICERS
PRESENT UNANIMOUSLY PROFESSED THEIR ANTI-COMMUNISM. ARBENZ
STRESSED HE COULD NOT PROCEED WITHOUT ARMY SUPPORTD. BUT TRIED
INTIMIDATE ARMY BY REFERRING TO MEXICAN EXAMPLED WHERE
AGRARIAN REFORM ALLEGEDLY COST ONE MILLION HUMAN LIVES AND
PEOPLE TURNED AGAINST ARMY WHICH ALWAYS ACCORDING TO
ARBENZ HAD OPPOSED REFORMS ALLIED ITSELF WITH BOURGEOIS
REACTION.
5. GENERAL STAFF OFFICERS SUBMITTED FIVE PAGES OF
QUESTIONS TO ARBENZD MOSTLY CONCERNING COMMUNISM AND ITS
SUPPORT BY GOVT. ARBENZ EVADED THE MORE EMBARRASSING QUESTIONS
INDULGING'GENERAL ATTACKS AGAINST IMPERIALISM AND TREASON.
HE DOES NO LONGER FEEL WITH ARMY ALSO NEGLECTED PURELY
MILITARY QUESTIONS WH IT 0 OU TO' illtVL-A2c-OF1 mpfu RY
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PLANSO ARBENZ CONFIDENT ARMING COMMIE-LED LABOR UNIONS ILL
SOLVE ALL PROBLEMS DISREGARDING FACT THAT THUS POLITICAL
COMMISSARS AND NO OFFICERS WOOOT BEiREAL- LEADERS OF ARMED
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6. ARBENZ HAS PROMISED THE LEADERS OF THE GOVT PARTIES
THAT ARMY WILL CLOSELY COLLABORATE WITH THEME DESPITE ENERGETIC
PROTEST SUPERIOR COUNCIL OF NATIONAL DEFENSE WHICH STRESSED
THAT THEY ARE NO COMMUNISTS. ARBENZ SWORE HE NOT A .
COMMUNISTS PELLECERs CASTILLO FLORES ETC. ARE NOT COMMIES
EITHER. HIS LIKING OF COMMUNISM IS BASED ON THEIR ANTI
UMPERIALISM. HE ASSERTED COMMUNISM IS PATRIOTIC DOCTRINE
FOR LATIN AMERICA SINCE IT FIGHTS "DOLLAR POLICY". HE WILL
NOT TOLERATE POLITICAL SYMPATHIES FOR COUNTRY WHICH OPPRESSES
US BY POWER OR FOR FORIEGN COMPANIES AWIORBING NATIONAL
WEALTH. ARBENZ ENDED BY STATING THAT LARGE SCALE BLOODSHED
IS NECESSARY TO ACHIEVE AGRARIAN REFORM BECAUSE SAME HAPPENED
WHEREVER SUCH REFORMS WERE CARRIED OUT. (END OF TEXT)
7. (CONCLUDING ANNOUNCER:) THIS WAS BUT ONE OF MANY
MESSAGES FROM ARMY OFFICERS WHICH WE RECEIVE ,EVERY HOUR DAY
V.\ 7
AND NIGHT IT COOFjilMS-M,FOCONVICTIOWTHAT'OUR ARMY IS
PROFOUNDLY ANTI !'.COMpliUN.ISTb CANNOT BE MISUSED By-ARBENZ�FORTUNY.
WE THANK ALSO THE MANY OFFICERS WHOSE MESSAGES WE CANNOT
BROADCAST FOR LACK OF TIME BUT WHOSE COMMUNICATIONS ARE
NEVERTHELESS PUT TO THE BEST POSSIBLE USE BY OUR LIBERATION
MOVEMENT.
END OF MESSAGE
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