Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: MX
To: HQ
Document date: 10/26/1966
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-90124-10009

RECORD SERIES:

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: CR 64-43798-134

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

MX

TO: HQ

TITLE :

DATE: 10/26/1966

PAGES:

4

SUBJECTS :

GUATEMALAN REVOLUTIONARY ACTIVITIES

MITCHELL LIVINGSTON WERBELL III

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS : 4

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 09/12/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS:

MEMO

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OPTIONAL FOF NO:10

MAY 1962 EDITION

GSA GEN. REG. NO. 27

* UNITED STATES C

*ERNMENT

Memorandum

TO

Director, FBI (64-43798)

DATE: October 26, 1966

FROM

Legat, Mexico City (105-3021)

(P

SUBJECT:

GUATEMALAN REVOLUTIONARY ACTIVITIES

IS - GUATEMALA

SITIOBY 5668 56060

ENCLOSURES

4(6

(J5R019/3007

Chest Forl

AsSily on:

SMACKER

dated

enclosed are ten copies of an LHM, captioned and

above

SAIFEe SY.

5668540/60

ON 3/92....

18FORNAHIO0

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA

HAS NO ORIENTION TO

DECLASSIFICATION AND/OR,

RELEASE OF CIA INFORMATION

ÍN THIS FUCUMENT.

2-2-98

SSIFIED

OWN

CARLOS AUGUSTO

LEMUS- GALLARDS

Thierwise

(BiFile 134-15426)

was encountered by the Central American road trip agent in

Tegucigalpa, Honduras on October

8, 1966. LEMUS advised

that

CIA/State/RA©/DIA

She had departed from San Salvador for Guatemala on September

1965, aboard a private

airplane accompanted by LoNeL

SIEG ONER Both individuals had been taken to the

salvadoran

Air Force Base side of the San Salvador Airport

ONI/OSI/ACSI

1/6.6

then took off with no clearance and landed at a private air-

strip near San Jose, Guatemala, where LEMUS and SISNIEGA

deplaned.

Copy

ay outing slip for info:

by the personal pilot of President RIVERA of El Salvador

where a private Guatemalan plane awaited them.

The plane

LEMUS further stated that he had departed from

Guatemala on October 5, 1966, by clandestine means and that

SISNIEGA had departed from Guatemala for El Salvador a few

days prior to that time also by clandestine

means.

LEMUS stated that he had accompanied SISNIEGA to

"Guatemala on behalf of the National Liberation Movement (MLN)

in anticipation of

an expected coup originally planned for

september 30,

1966, by the MLN in cooperation with various

Guatemalan military commanders.

LEMUS was commissioned to

prepare a list of communists and communist guerrilla leaders

to be either seized or executed if the proposed coup should

be successful.

BEC. 15

SU8RS

35559328-134

Viaison-Section)

MeX10 C961

JAM: esC

6 CMONA

Tê NôV I 1966

14 1208

UNRECORDED COPY FILED IN /

copies note toes!.

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MEX 105-3021

LEMUS identified SISNIEGA as the leader of the

rightist guerrilla force known as MANo

which for all practical

purposes had now united with the rightist guerrilla force of

the MiN which now uses the initials ChAs in Guatemala.

LEMUS stated he intended to remain, at least on a

temporary basis, in san Salvador.

LEMUS requested that the above information not be

I disseninated outside the Bireau.

In accordance with Bureau letter 10-10-66, no

effort will be made by the Mexico City Office to recontact

LEMUS.

On October 13 1966, ROBERTO CASTANEDA FELICE

stated that gullLerve toRtelle has been observed by him in

the company of Col. FELIPE DOROLES MONTERROSO WIRANDA, Chie

of the Guatemalan Air Force.

MONTERROSOL told CASTANEDA that

hehattended this party in spite of his knowledge that TORIELLO@OU

is a leftist because TORIELLO is a hunting friend of the

Chief of the United States Air Force Mission to Guatemala.

CASTANEDA requested that this information not be disseminated.

ECASTANEDAdalso said that it was his understanding

that Peter Pan Verbell, a firm believed operated by MITCHEl

VERBELL eat Powder Springs Georgia, was a possible

source of arms for LEONEL SISNIEGA OTERO and the MANO:

manner which would dry up the source.

INFORMANTS

Identity of source

T-1: CARLOS AUGUSTO LEMUS GALLARDO

(per request)

Location

Enclosed LHM

"T-2:

/ T-3:

MEX. 65

134-56A (A) Cu

Enclosed LHM

ROBERTO CASTANEDA FELICE, Attorney,

Guatemala City, Guatemala,

Former secretary to ex-President CASTILLO ARMAS

(per request)

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