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14-00000 | i4e * GUATEMALAN AUTHORITIES.) MEDINA SAID THA THAT HE HAD TALKED -TO(GENERAL JOSE 0.7 UAREZ: “ARAGON, WHO” is NOW Tre GUSTENALAN CONSUL GENERAL _ TORE 3992 — denates on Kattions SECRET (Whee Milled Bap af Foe PLACE CONTROLS AMOVE TOF BLACK LINK: AND, BELOW norront BLACK LINES : MPS 888 E38) Be 7hg57 OP > Tet aero SECRET | Toes PAGE 2 _ ALEJOS AR7U'S ABORTIVE PLOT TO OVERTHROW THE GUATEMALAN GOVERNMENT IN JN_THE SPRING OF 65, SAID THAT. THE PILOT WHO FLEW ALEJOS TO . . cee: : USA AUSA Fla GUATEMALA | ms SHORT TIME AGO" WAS GERALD PATRICK 'HEMMING. THE prea Ma ea Ihnen ni # “AIRCRAFT LANDED AT PUERTO. BARRIOS, GUATEMALA, WHERE IT REMAINED FOR ABOUT Two WEEKS. HEMMING 1S NOW IN MIAME. (FIELD COMMENT: HEMMING, AN AMERICAN SOLDIER OF FORTUNE ANO FORMER UNITED STATES MARINE, HAS BEEN ENGAGED IN CUBAN REVOLUTIONARY ACTIVITIES. FOR _ ABOUT FIVE YEARS. HEMMING, LEADER OF THE INTER-AMERICAN PENETRATION — FORCE (INTERPEN), A GUERRILLA GROUP, WAS MOST RECENTLY INVOLVED IN THE RECRUITMENT OF CUBAN EMIGRES WITH GUERRILLA WARFARE EXPERIENCE WHO WOULD:-BE WILLING TO FIGHT THE COMMUNIST GUERRILLAS IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC ON BEHALF OF GENERAL ANTONIO. IMBERT on “BARRERA. IT, 1S BELIEVED THAT THIS PLAN NEVER MATERIALIZED. ) | — 3. . MEDINA INTENDS TO GIVE THIS INFORMATION TO THE NEW GUATEMALAN CONSUL GENERAL IN MIAMI, HOPING THAT THIS WILL SHARPEN HIS INTEREST “IN ALEUOS. (FIELD COMMENT: IT WAS RECENTLY REPORTED THAT MEDINA ACCEPTED AN OFFER OF: $38, 008 TO DELIVER ALEJOS SAFELY TO THE IN- SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, AND JUAREZ INFORMED HIM THAT THE NEW CONSUL GENERAL SHOULD ARRIVE IN MIAMI BY 15 OCT AND WOULD CONTACT : Rae tToree lh. . Ce MEDINA. (FIELD COMMENT: ~ COLONEL CARLOS 1enac 10 FEONZALEZ AuSsA PALACIOS, NEWLY APPOINTED CONSUL GENERAL To MIAMI, ARRIVED IN MIAN] wat ~” ON 13 oct.) — ca SECRET. — ,
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