CABLE FROM LINCOLN FOR LANGEVIN: INSTRUCTION 12 FOR BROADCASTS

Created: 6/19/1954

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FOR LANGEVIN. INSTRUCTION 12

WUCK GREATERIS ON RELIGIOUS ANGLES. "GODLESS, ANTI-RELIGIOUS, ENEMIES OF CHRISTIANITY"

APPEAL TO CHRISTIAN FAITH OF AUDIENCES SHENEVER APPROPRIATE. REPORT COMMIE OUTRAGES AGAINST CHURCHES, PRIESTS, NUNS, AS PREVIOUSLY SUGGESTED. QUOTE KEY PASSAGES FROM ARELLANO PASTORAL LETTER. MENTION PROGRESS OF COMUIE-SPONSORED "SOCIETY MILITANT GODLESS IN GUAT" WHO FORM SPEARHEAD COMJIE DRIVE AGAINST CHURCHES, RELIGIOUS EDUCATION,UNEFjALs))

THATTsMSECOMEPAST WEEKSTERROR REGIME SOV lET'STYLEv. Hf NQT^ENDEO NOW, ft ILLFLEDGED tiVD STATE NExl FECI DAYS. FOCUS' POPULARLEADERSa ARBENZ, FORTUMY, CRUZAIME ROSENBERG, ETC.

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HE STOPS CARRYING OUT THEIR ORDERS, PREVENTS MASSACRE POLITICAL PRISONERS, ASSISTS THEIR ESCAPE, COOPERATES WITH LIBERATION,, CALL UPON PEOPLE TO FREE POLITICAL PRISONERS OR COMMIES MAY KILL THEM BEFORE LIBERATION WINS. STRESS REPEATEDLY THAT MANY WOMEN, CHILDREN, OLD AND SICK MEN A'.NG TORTURED PRISONERS. REMIND AUOIENCE POLICE ACTED ILLEGALLY ALREADY BEFORE RECENT-SUSPENSION CONSTITUTIONAL LIBERTIES.

3. FACTS PRESENTLY KNOWN LINC INCLUDE: THOUSANfJ OF POLITICAL PRISONERS TAKEN LAST THREE WEEKS, MANY INCOMMUNICADO, MAY ALREAOY BE DEAD. GUAROIA JUOICIAL HIREDEW PLAINCLOTHES AGENTSAY (PRESUMABLY MOSTLY HANO-PICKEO COMMIESj TRAINED IN SOVIET SECRET POLICE BRUTALITY, BRAIN WASHING, ETC)*

1*. GIVE SPECIAL BUILD-UP WELL KNOWN INDIVIDUAL CASES SUCH AS:

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D. RUBEN VILLATORO, FOUGHT1 REVOLUTION, UNTL LEADER: ARRESTEDANUARY, INTERROGATED AND BEATEN BY CRUZ HER, GAGGED, GIVEN HATER TREATMENT, FINALLY DROPPED WITH GROUP OTHER POLITICAL PRISONERS AT MEXICAN BORDER.

5o ADD TO ABOVE WHATEVER CASES MEMBERS YOUR TEAM MAY RECALL, PRESENTING DRAMATI2EO VERSIONS WHENEVER POSSIBLE. DO NO SO MUCH LAMENT VICTIMS BUT CALL FOR LIBERATION PRISONERS, END GUILTY REGIME, PUNISHMENT OF ALL CRIMINAL TORTURERS AUONG POLICE, COMWIE SHOCK TROOPS, ETC

6. FOR DIR: SUGGEST YOU RELAY ABOVE THROUGHOUT 3GR ANGER.

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