CABLE RE:PLANS OR ROBERTO ALEJOS ARZU TO UNDERTAK SMALL OPERATIONS IN GUATEMALA
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Document date: 07/06/1965
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COUNTRY CUBA/GUATEMALA

DATE OF 30 JUNE 1965

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DISTR 6 JULY 1965

SUBJECT

PLANS OF ROBERTO ALEJOS ARZU TO UNDERTARE

SMALL OPERATIONS IN GUATEMALA

PLACE &

DATE ACO UNITED STATES, MIAMI (1 JULY 1965)

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HELD REPORT NA. UFG-?328

PRAISAL A CUBAN REFUGEE WHO HAS MANY CONTACTS AMONG CUBAN EXILE ACTIVISTS

REVIOUS REPORTING FROM THE REFUGEE HAS PROVES TO BE FAIRLY RELIABLI

THIS INFORHATION WAS OBTAINED FROM LUIS SIERRA LOPEZ. .

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1. ' FIELO COMMENT: ROBERTO ALEJOS ARZU, GUATEMALAN MILLIONAIRE

LIVING IN MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, HAD RECRUITED CUBAN EXILES IN

THE MIAMI AREA WITH THE INTENTION OF TRANSPORTING THEM IN A. B-25 TO

MEXICO; TRAINING THEM, AND INFILTRATING THEM INTO GUATEMALA IN AN

ATTEMPT TO OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT OF ENRIQUE PERALTA AZURDIA.

HOWEVER, ON 4 MAY 1965, ALEJOS AND LUIS SIERRA LOPEZ, MILITARY

LEADER OF THE CUBAN EXILES, HAD BEEN APPREHENDED AND THEIR ARMS

CACHES SEIZED BY UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS.:;

2. ON 38 JUNE :: LUIS SIERRA LOPEZ SAID THAT HE WAS TRYING

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TO LOCATE THE WHEREABOUTS OF ONE SILENCER FOR AN M-3 SUEMACHINE GUN,

ONE OF FOUR SILENCERS THAT WERE DELIVEREO TO ROBERTO ALEJAS ARZU'S

GACUP AFTER ITS CACHE OF WEAPONS HAD BEEN SEIZEO BY UNITED STATES.

GUVERNMENT OFFICIALS IN EARLY MAY, WHEN ASKED WHY HE NEEDED THE

SILENCERS, SIERRA SAID THAT ALEJOS DID NOT TRUST THE GUATEMALAN

GOVERNMENT CONCERNING THE PROPOSED HOLDING OF ELECTIONS ON 15 :.

SEPTENDER 1965. SIERRA SAID THAT HE HAD TALKED TO. A MAN FROM'GUATEMALA

EARLIER IN THE DAY AÑO THAT THE FOUR SILENCERS THAT, SIERRA MAD IN HIS

POSSESSION WOULD BE SENT TO GUATEMALA.

3. SIERRA REVEALED THAT ALEJOS PLANS TO UNDERTAKE SMALL •

OPERATIONS WITHIN GUATEMALA AND . ... TO USE ONLY TWO OR THREE MEN

TO ACCOMPLISH THESE MISSIONS. HE SAID THAT ALEJOS WOULD NOT BE ..

NEEDING ANY HEAVY ARMS TO CARRY OUT HIS PLANS.

4. SIERRA MENTIONED THAT ONE OF THE MEN WHOM HE HAD MET DURING

HIS TRIP TO GUATEMALA IN LATE APRIL AND EARLY MAY, AN AIR FORCE

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OFFICER, TOLD SIERRA THAT ALEJOS WOULD NOT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THE ....

GUATEMALAN AIR FORCE JETS BECAUSE THEY WERE LIGHTLY ARMED AND THEIR ....

PILOTS WERE POORLY TRAINED. HOWEVER, THE OFFICER ADVISED SIERRA

THAT THE PROPELLER-DRIVEN AIRCRAFT WOULD INDEED BE A THREAT BECAUSE

THEY WERE HEAVILY ARMED AND WERE FLOWN BY WELL-TRAINED PILOTS.

• THE OFFICER THEN PROPOSED TO SIERRA. THAT HE (THE OFFICER) BE NOTIFIED

OF THE DATE OF ALEJOS PLANNED COUP ATTEMPT SO THAT HE COULD ENTERTAIN

SOME OF THE PILOTS AT HIS HOME ON THE NIGHT PRECEDING THE OPERATIÓN.

HE SAIO THAT AFTER A FEW HOURS OF"PARTYING; THE PILOTS WOULD BE RIPE

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_OF STATE, FBI, CUSTOMS, I&NS, BORDER PATROL, FAA, AND USCGO (ALSO

SENT PANAMA CITY, (GUATEMALA CITY,

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