CABLE TO SENIOR REP, GUATEMALA CITY FROM DIRECTOR, CIA RE GUATEMALA 1954 COUP

Created: 7/8/1954

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THAT GREAT OPPORTUNITY EXISTS FOR THEM AND THEIR FAMILIES IP THEY WILL SELL OUT THEIR SUPERIORS AND TELL ALL THET KNOW. IN LATTER CONNECTION IT SHOULD BE WELL WORTH GRANTING PARDONS AHD OTHERWISE ASSISTING TJJ REHABILITATIONIMITED NUMBER OP LESSER AND NON-DANGEROUS FIGURES IF TRET WILLING TALK AND PRODUCE EVTDENCS OP COM* KDMIST CONTROL AHD ASSOCIATION TOP MEMBERS GOVERNMENT AS WELL AS SECRET DEALINGS OF OUTRIGHT CKMHUNIST LEADERS WITH SOVIET, CZECH AND OTHER COMMUNIST OFFICIALS.

C. BRING PRESSURE TO BEAR OH OTHER LATIN AMERICAN GOVERNMENTS

ESPECIALLYXTRADITE MURDERERS AND CRIMINALS SUCH AS CRUZ

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HER AND ROSEMBUHj, AND AISO WITH/ffiS TO PERSUADING KMPAJAMAS AND OTHERS

OF UNWISDOM HARBORING SO MANY COMMUNISTS IN NAHK OF SACRED

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ASYLUM. IN THIS CONNECTION ODACID HAS UNDERTAKEN BRING PRESSURE TO BEAR KHPAJAMA GOVERNMENT BY POINTING OUT LARGE NUMBERS COMMUNISTS THET PROTECTING AND HELPING AND BY MAKING POINT THIS TYPE OF ACTION AND ANY ASSISTANCE TO LEADING CQMflJNISTS ESCAPE TO RUSSIA COULD HOT FAIL TO PREJUDICE RELATIONS BETWEEN KHPAJAMA AND PBPRIKE,

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AHD CTHKiS IP WSESRTL OB SOKE OTHER SHOOKX ORANTTNO ASYLUM SHJOLD SET PfECEDEHCE OP VffTHDRAWIHO ASYLUM PRIVILEQES FROM TUG OR THREE IHDIVIDUALS CHARGED WITH HIGH CRIMES AHD HISIEHEANORS.

T IS OUR GUESS THAT THE COMMUNISTS AND OTHER FUGITIVES WILL, IF KEPT BOTTLED UP IN EMBASSIES, SOON BEGIN TO GROW RESTIVE AND TO BECOME OFFENSIVE TO ONE ANOTHER AS WELL AS TO TVEIR HOSTS. IF ADDITIONAL PRESSURES OF THE

SUGGESTED ABOVE CAN ES BROUGHT TO BEAR IT HAT WELL PROVE PGSSIEIS FOR SOME LARGE FISH TO BE NETTED. EFFORTS SHOULD BE HADE TO RESTRAIN DEMONSTRATIONS

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AGAINST KHPAJAMA AND OTHER EMBASSIES SINCE THIS XX ONLY BOLSTERS AND REAFFIRMS

POSITIONS OF THOSE EMBASSIES GRANTING ASYLUM, AND IN ADDITION, MAKES BAD PRESS

ELSEWHERE IN WORLD tf AROUSINO SYMPATHY FOE THE RASCALS.

U. FTIl KHPAJAMA NEWSPAPERS WHILE AFFIRMING ASYLUM TRADITION RECOGNIZE

LIMITATIONS,DANGERS AHD POSSIBLE ABUSE IF ASYLUM USED TO PERMIT INFLUX OF UNDESIRAiJ; CRIMINALS, EXTREMISTS, AND USE OF XHXNXKX KHPAJAMA A3 BASE FOR CONSPIRACY AGAINST WSBUHNT,

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