LOCAL MEXICO NEWSPAPER CARRIED ARTICLE 25 OCTOBER CAPTURE OF YACHT "EL AMIGO".
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
From: WITHHELD
To: DIRECTOR
Document date: 10/26/1968
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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1." LOCAL MEXICO NEWSPAPER CARRIED ARTICLE A OCTOBER ON

SEPTURE OF YACHI "EL AMIGO" BY AUTHORITIES FORM BELIZE BRITISH

TISH.

HONDUREAS, ARTICLE INDICATES YACHT HIJACKED BY AMERICANS 18 OCT.

TWO MEXICANS FORCED GO ALONG WERE ALONSO CAMPOS MASTER OF YACHT

ANO DECK ANNA RAMON MAGINA

ABOARD AS GHARLES Ó• CONNEL,

AUTHORITIES IDENTIFIED FIVE OF THOSE LAS

HERBERT, IO PENDER FRANK BONELL?

ROBERIS CURTIS ANDELAX GORRANe DAMES OF REMAINING THREE ABOARD

BEING

WITHHELDBY BELIZE POLICE.

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SEARCH OF YACHT REVEALED CARGO OF AUTOMATIC WEAPONS, •

AMMUNITION, GRENADES, PISTOLS, MAPS OF BELIZE TERRITORY WITH

MARKED AREAS ON BORDER OF BRITISH HONDUREAS-GUATEMALAN BORDER.

PROPAGANDA FOUND ABOARD CALLED ON PEOPLE OF BELIZE TO REBEL AGAINST

PRIME MINISTER GEORGE PRICE AND DECLARE SELVES IN FAVOR OF ANNEXING

BRITISH HONDURAS TO GUATEMALA. AFTER QUESTIONING GROUP CLAIMED RE.:

GUATEMALAN MOVEMENT " TO SAVE" BELIZE. YACHT MASTER SAID

WAS FORCED LOAD ARMS AND PROPAGANDA IN MEXICAN PROT OF PROGRESSO..

NEAR MERIDA. CALONSO MART

VAZQUEZ

YACHT OWNER LEFT FOR BELIZE

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TO FILE HIJACK CHARGE AGAINST ABOVE GROUPS.

3. OTHER ARTICLE DATELINED MERIDA STATED ABOVE FIVE MEN AND

EIGHI OTHERS WHO EVADED CAPTURE WEREjACCUSEDOF PARTICIPATING

RECENT MEXICO CITY STUDENT RIOTS.

MEXICAN AUTHORITIES IN MERIDEA

CLAIMED CLOSING IN ON MISSING MEMBERS OF GROUP AND EXPECTED

APPREHEND THEM MOMENTARILY

STATION EXPECTING ADDTIONAL INFO ONYACHT INCIDENT FROM

LIAMATOR- I THRU LIRENO- 10

50 INDEX O'CONNEL, PENDER, BONELLI, CURTIS, GORMAN•

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