POSSIBLE COUP D'ETAT IN VENEZUELA
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CIA-RDP82-00457R002100030016-2
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RIPPUB
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S
Document Page Count:
1
Document Creation Date:
November 9, 2016
Document Release Date:
February 27, 1999
Sequence Number:
16
Case Number:
Publication Date:
November 19, 1948
Content Type:
REPORT
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Approved For Release 1999/09/00030016-2
CLASSIFICATIONS
CENTRAL tNTELLWGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Venezuela
SUBJECT Possible Coup d'Etat in Venezuela
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L`bravy (LISTED BELOW) 42851
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, Minister of National Defense, has been urged to
take over the governmeDt by At dissatisfied Army group headed by Colonel
T.'arcos Perez Jimenez, Chief of Staff of the Venezuelan Army. The Lanister
has refused to take such action. Source believes that Delgado Chalbaud
is arranging his affairs so that he would be able to leave the country in
an em rgency. He has notified his wife, who is visiting in 1err York, not
to return to Caracas as planned on 20 November. C en . Should
Delgado Chalbaud leave Venezuela, Perez Jimenea w e the top ranking
military officer. ,It is believed that he might attempt to overthrow the
government or at least obtain concessions of cabinet changes to include
certain Army officers.)
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BY CABLE
This document is hereby regradcr" to
CONFIDENTIAL in accordarV a ^` the
the
letter of 16 October the
Director of Centr '
Archivist of the Unite` - ? -
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