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# SECRETpart in latin American relations. In the latter part of 1952, the militaryplan was drawn up by Sanches Arango with the aid of Foreign Minister RaulCeeguida and often in the conferences the presidential candidate (Costa Rica)Jose Figueres took an active part, promising the support of Costa Rica shouldbe elected president. Dr. Juan Jose Arevalo participated as well, to theextent of using his influence with the Guatemalan Grey officials that theymight join the movement later. On the Caribbean coast of Guatemala is a placecalled Livingston. To the West, there is a road which leads to a little nativevillage (indigera), name for the moment forgotten by this agent. To the south-west of this place, there is a very bad road which ends in a little valley atthe end of which there is a series of low hills. Back of those hills is sit-uated a camp of the Caribbean Legion. Here is established the General Head-quarters of Aureliano Sanches Arango. There exists here a force of 4,000 menregularly trained, quartered and fed. Their practice is held daily under thedirection of General Abelardo Cuadra, veteran of the Spanish Civil War and oneof the organizers of the movement of Cayo Confitres.The force situated here is divided into two battalions, one named Battalionf4, PABLO ES LA FUENTE BRAU, the other Battalion,5, IGOTO AGUIRRE.The force is divided into small groups and taught to use machine guns (tripodtype), also hand-type Garand Rifles, automatic repeating rifles 1-1. Nearlyall the officers are veterans of the Spanish Civil War. In addition to themilitary practice, the officers get together once a week for conferences overhistorical and political matters as expounded by Juan Jose Arevalo, RomuloBetancourt, Aureliano Sanches Arango, etc.Near Livingston there is a little gulf on which is situated Puerto Barrios.South of this port, there is a tiny port not marked on the map, named Montagua.In this place with landing craft, practice is held with the idea of disembark-ing in Cuba. From Montagua, several shipments of arms have been made to Cuba.The other large concentration of men and arms is in Costa Rica.Northwest of Puerto Limon on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica, there isa place known as la Virgen. Back of this reached by a small country road, backof some low hills, is found the camp. Here are 2,000 men or more divided intothree battalions, f1 Augusto Cesar Sandino, f2 Horasan, f3 Antonio Mateo. Alittle north of this camp, there is a kind of landing field which contains four(English) Lancaster Bombers, acquired from Canada by Ingeniero Carlos Hevia inCanada. The men in this camp carry English Repeating rifles, but they alsohave Thompson machine guns and Mendoza machine guns with plenty of ammunition.The men in Guatemala also have this additional arm.The plan is that on landing in Cuba of the "patriots" those arms will begiven to all the civilians who are sympathetic with the cause. Cubans generallyare more familiar with this type of arm than the English repeating rifle, whouse is not easy to learn in a few minutes. The crews of the planes are English.The leader of the outfit is a Canadian named Chisholm who was a Captain FAFduring the war, flying Lancaster Bombers. He is a personal friend of CarlosPrio Socarras. This camp did not amount to much when Tillo Ulate was Presidentof Costa Rica, but the minute Figueres came to power, the arms and men began toS