LINCOLN CABLE RE GUATEMALA D-DAY

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• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02025578
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• 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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LI NC 4008 (IN 19578) 1917Z iE JUN 511.
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FOR LANGEV I N. INSTRUCTION 9
OPERATIONAL IMMEDIATE
PRECEDE/4CE
CITE: SLINC
1 D DAY TODAY, 18 JUNE. H HOUR 2020. BORADCAST AT 2020
FOLLOWING OPENING APPEAL WITH MAXIMUM IMPASSIONED INSISTENCE
INTRODUCED FANFARES, CLOS ED NATIONAL ANTHEM. USE LIVE VOICE,
MAKE ANY LAST MINUTE FACTUAL CHANGES IN TEXT WHICH SUBSEQUENT
INFO MAY NECESSITATE, BUT BUT DO NOT DEVIATE FROM POLICY LINE
BELOW. ELABORATE AS NEEDED, BUT DON /1- MAKE TOO LONG, REPEAT
HOURLY INTERVALS.
2. (BEGIN TEXT) NATIONAL LIBERATION COMMITTEE, COMPOSED
REPRESENTATIVES ALL GROUPS OPPOS I NG CO /114LS.M,RBENZ,LS114.
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DEFENDING CONST I TUT I ON
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ARE ADVANCING EVERYWHERE THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY, WE ARE STILL
HOPING THAT FAST, DECISIVE ACTION BY OUR LOYAL ARMY DEPOSING
OUTLAW ARBENZ AND HIS MOSCOWCONTROLLED REGIkE, WILL PREVENT
MORE BLOODSHED, BUT THERE CAN BE NO MORE DELAY, NO MORE FENCE
SITTING, NO MORE WISHFUL WAITING. THE HOUR OF DECISION HAS
STRUCK,
4.0 WE, REPRESENTING ALL GROUPS OF THE NONCOMMUNIST
POPULATION SOLEMNLY DECLARE: THIS IS NOT A FOREIGN iNTERVEW=.
TION, BUT, AN UPRISING OF THE HONEST, CHRISTIAN, FREEDOMAJ)VING
PEOPLE OF GUAT TO LIBERATE OUR HOMELAND FROM THE FOREIGN INTER7
VENT ION WHICH HAS ALREADY TAKEN PLACE, FROM CONTROL BY THE
SOVIET UNION WHICH HAS MADE GUAT AN ADVANCED OUTPOST OF INTER
NATIONAL COMMIEWESSION, FROM RULE By SOVIET PUPPETS ARBEN2,
TORIELLOp FANJUL, FROM TERROR, MASS ARRESTS, TORTURES,
EXERCIZED BY COMMIE AGENTS JAIME ROSENBER
50 YOU ALL HAD DURING
DICTATORSHIP, ABOLITION otm
THOUSANDS NOW.COMMUNISTS., A IVAL SOVIET ApVisHOPKNIAL COMMIE
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MILITARY INSTRUCTORS, RUSSIAN SECRETOOLI*OICERS'-'0 WE MUST
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PUT END TO ALL THIS TODAY, MUST SETTACCq9SITIP- SE
RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS SITUATION'IODAY OR OUR COU
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BATTLE FIELD FOR WARS A
SEEKS ANOTHER KOREA IN:C TRAL'AMERICA,OUR EXPORT CROPS WILL
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HELP RUSSIAN PEOPLE WHO ARE UNDERFED BECAUSE OF DISASTROUS
FAILURE COMMIE AGRARIAN REFORM IN RUSSIA AND EVERYWHERE OUR,
PROUD, BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY WILL BE SUBMERGED IN DISASTER.
6. HEED OUR INSTRUCTIONS, COMING FROM THE NATIONAL LIBERATION
COMMITTEE AND FROM THE ASSEMBLY OF THE PEOPLE:
A, ARMY TO TAKE ARBENZ, MEMBERS OF CABINET, OTHER LEADING
OFFICIALS INTO CUSTODY, OCCUPY KEY GOVT BUILDINGS, SEIZE POT,
COTO, CNCG HEADQUARTERS, ARREST ALL COMMIE LEADERS, CONFISCATE
WEAPONS ON. HANDS OF COMMIE GROUPS,
B. POLICE TO RID ITSELF OF COMMIE CHIEFS ROSENBERG,
CRUZWER, OTHERS, RELEASE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS, PLACE ITSELF
TEMPORARILY UNDER ARMY ORDERS OR SUFFER FATE OF COMMIE AGENTS,
Co WORKERS,PEASANTS: JOIN LIBERATION MOVEMENT WITH
THE WEAPONS COMMIE LEADERS GAVE YOU. DO NOT PARTICIPATE IN
ANY COMMIEORDERED STRIKES, PARADES, THel,mowLL1P3Sf OF
E,
COMMIE UNION LEADERS. D iULAR
ARMY,
E, CIVILIAN G T El LOYEES:
ORDERS FROM ARBENZ REGIME, REPO'
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ARMY COMMANDER, LOCAL LIBERATIO 4-044,TITE--17StAY AN YOUR JOBS,
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BUT WAIT FOR REESTABLISHMENT LAWFUL GOVT. Tr-77, r, i
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PUBLISHING ARBENZ R
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BROADCASTS UNTIL ILLEGAL COMMIE CENSORSHIP WIPED OUT BY LIBERATtON0
Go POPULATION AT LARGE0 JOIN IMMEDIATELY ARMED FORCES
OF LIBERATION MOVEMENT. HELP YOURSELF TO COMMIE ISSUED ARMS
OR ARMS CACHES. WOMEN, OLD AND SICK MEN, CHILDREN TO STAY CLOSE
TO HOME: OBSERVE, REPORT ALL SUSPICIOUS MOVES, EXPOSE COMMIE
LEADERS TRYING TO SNEAK OUTSIDE COUNTRY, PREVENT POLICE FROM
MURDERING POLITICAL PRISONERS BY KEEPING JAILS, POLICE STATIONS
UNDER MASS SURVEILLANCE,
Ho EVERYBODY CONTINUES LISTEN VOICE LIBERATION.
7, IF WE ALL, SOLDIERS AND CIVILIANS, ACT IUMEDIATELY,
WITH DETERMINATION, COURAGE AND DISCIPLINE, WE SHALL SOON
SUCCEED IN WIPING MOSCOWS SHADOW OFF THE BLUE SKY OVER OUR
BELOVED HOMELAND, RESTORE OUR CONSTITUTIONAL LIBERTIES, RE-..
ESTABLISH GOOD SINCERE RELATIONS WITH ALL NEIGHBORING COUNTRIESp
BUILD A TRULY DEMOCRATIC ORDER WHICH WILL,PREVE TrfOtu, E COMMUNIST
CONSPIRACIES, BUT
BUT
BUILD AN ORDER BAS
.SELF�GOVEW.MENT, EQ ,L I
ALL, REGARDLESS OF COLOR, RA
COOPERATION BETWEEN ALL NATI
EQUALITY.
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FORCES OF DARKNESS, COMMUNIST CONSPIRACY AND SOVIET RUSSIAN
IMPERIALIST EXPANSION UPON OUR SOIL, DEATH TO ARBENZ AND
HOS COMMIE ADVISERS g FORWARD FOR GOD, FATHERLAND AND LIBERTY1
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