POSSIBLE PERUVIAN MILITARY COUP

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R003000040001-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 17, 2000
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: July 15, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2000/ / F004 R0&0
CLASSIFICATION OVAWT"
TRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY P6RT NC
CEN
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Peru/Colombia
SUBJECT Possible Peruvian Military Coup
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DATE DISTR.
15 July 1949
NO. OF PAGES
1
NO. OF ENCLS.
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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
1. Tito Peruvian .officers, actively enga("ed in aiding a r?il.it.ary coup scheduled
to overthrow the Odria government on or before 2$ JiCLy, have been exiled
from Peru. They are Major Luis Conterno of the Peruvian (dr Force and
Captain Jorge noses of the Peruvian Infantry, who are reported to have
traveled from Bogota on 14 July 1949 en route to Caracas via T GA Airlines. X
They had come to Colombia from Paxa.
2. the revolutionary plan calls for Odria to be replaced
by Lt. Cal. M,gue guerrevere, present Peruvian Military Attache in Colombia.
25X1 A Cori. eft. In February 1949, a Comandante Conterno, C?'ief of the
31st :lttao' Squadron, bans reported as one of a group of Anrieta symp t'~iZors
allegedly planning a r vrolutinn .ry plot. No aitual plot was uncovered at the
time, but the government saw :fit to rive a warning to the indivi ?uals sus-
teeto ? of being involved.
This document is hereby regraded to
CONFIDENTIAL In accordance with the
letter of 16 October 1978 from the
Director of Central Intelligence to the
Archivist of the United States.
Next Review Date: 2008
By$
Da t 01 t 2 4 SAY 1978
CONFIDENTIAL.