CABLE TO DIRECTOR FROM GUATEMALA CITY RE GUATEMALA 1954 COUP

Created: 1/26/1954

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THAT HE HAD SOME TIME PREVIOUSLY BEEN INFORMED BY CALLIGERIS THAT SEQUIN WAS CALLIGERIS REPRESENTATIVE IN WSBURNT AND HE had PREVIOUSLY BEEN IN CONTACT KITH SEQUIN; THAT DEPOSITEDSYLUM) IN DTFROG'S EMBASSYANUARY; SEQUIN ADVISED COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN SEQUIN AND CALLIGERIS HAD BEEN HAHJXED INJLIASOSTA RICAN NATIONALOF KMFLUSH WHO PILOTS SMALL PLANE AND TRAVELS BETWEEN CENTRAL AMERICAN COUNTRIES, THAT EELGAD3 ARRIVED WS8URNTANUARY WITH COMMUNICATIONS FOR SEQUIN AND DEPARTEDANUARY WITH OUTGOING COMMUNICATIONS FOR CALLIGERIS AND OTHERS AT LEAST ONE OF VWICH SIGNED "INGENIEROPHONETIC) PSEUDO OF SEQUIN, WHICH RELATED TO DATA CONCERNING govt radio STATION tgw WHICH DATA(OR FORWARDED) BY SEQUIN AT CALLIGERIS REQUEST, THAT 8EQUIN WAS SUBSEQUENTLY INFORWED BY SOURCE IN NATIONAL PALACE that EELGAD) j

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HADBOTH INCOMING AND OUTGOING COMMUNICATIONS AVAILABLET AND THAT HE, SEQUIN,ITTLE TIME TO TAKE someAND WARN CALLIGERIS; tW?ErENAS PROPOSED TRIP to KMFLUSH (SEE REFERENCE) WAS KNOWN TO SEQUIN; THAT ARENAS HAD STATED ONANUARyTO KMFLUSH AMBASSADOR HE TO BE FLOWN TO KMFLUSH BY GABRIEL FERNANEgZI(ALSO RC5VDEMBER OF AERO CLUB; THAT FERNANDEZ (AS RCVD) HAD BEEN ARRESTED NIGHTJANUARY, COULD NOT HAVE FLOWN ARENAS, WHO HAS NOT BEEN INWITH KMFLUSH AMBASSADOR SINCE; THAT KMFLUSH AMBASSADOR HAS WARNED HIS GOVT AGAINST DELGADO; THAT WHILE RECENTHAD HINDERED OPPOSITION, OPPOSITION LEADERS IN ASYLUM ARE MAINTAINING CONTACT WITH PERSONS WHO HAVE NOT TAKEN ASYLUM,.

2. MINISTER OF GOVERNMENT AEHITTED TOEING EETAINED FOR INTERROGATION, SOME GOING INTOWHILE OTHERS GOING OUT, AND THAT INTERROGATIONSMEASURE AGAINST POSSIBLE SUBVERSION, REFUSED GIVENUMBERS. .

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