STATEMENT BY ROBERTO ALEJOS ARZU, GUATEMALAN +MIGR+ IN MIAMI, FLORIDA THAT COUP IS IMMINENT IN GUATEMALA.
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From: JMWAVE
To: DIRECTOR
Document date: 12/24/1965
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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SUEUS STATEMENT BY ROBERTO ALEJOS ARZU, QUATEMALAN EMIGRE IN MIAMI.

FLORIDA, THAT COUP IS IMMINENT IN GUATEMALA

DOI: 2$ DECEMBER 1965

PADA: UNITED STATES, MIAMI (23 DECEMBER 1965)

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1. ON 2$ DECEMBER 1965 IN MIAMI, FLORIDA, ROBERTO ALEJOS ARZU,

PROMINENT GUATEMALAN EMIGRE WHO HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN GUATEMALAN

REVOLUTIONARY PLOTTING, SAID THAT HE HAD EXPECTED A MILITARY COUP IN:

GUATEMALA BEFORE 15 DECEMBER, BUT THAT HE: HAD RECEIVED WORD FROM

:QUATEMALA THAT BECAUSE OF THE PERSONAL AMBITIONS OF SOME OFFICERS

ITHE COUP HAD NOT BEEN CARRIED OUT.

12: :THE PLAN, HOWEVER, IS NOW PROGRESSING AGAIN, ALEJOS

CONTINUED, AND THE COUP WILL OCCUR AT ANY MOMENT. THE BEGINNING OF

THE CHANGÉ IN GOVERNMENT, HE ADDED, WILL BE THE REPLACEMENT OF THE

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