CABLE TO DIRECTOR FROM SHERWOOD RE GUATEMALA 1954 COUP

Created: 6/19/1954

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c eUM OVcR iirAT*TmALSONLY. IGHT FLASHING JUST be FORE RrACHING BFON COURSE TO DZ AND LIGHTS FROM TRUCK COME ON AT DZTHREE ON PULL UP TO MAKE CIRCUITYARDS FROM FIRSTIN STRAIGHT LINE ON

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OPPOSITE SICE OF RAVINE PLUS .ONE FLASHING HAND LIGHT. REMAINING MINE BUNDLES DROPPED ON THREE PASSES TO THREE LIGHTS IN LINE. GUAT CITY LIGHTS ALL RLACKED OUT AFTER COMPLETIONAND NORTH ITOS GUAT CITY NOTICED TWO DIFFERENT CLUSTERS OF

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APPROACHED DZ FROM SOUTH SE SAW ONE BLINKINGILES NORTH DZ AREA. AS APPROACHED DZ SAW ONE OTHER LIGHT POINTluQ NORTH. THIS WAS CLOSE TO BLINKING LIGHT ANO SEEMED TO INDICATE WERE TO DROP. MADE THREE CIRCUITS TO GET LOT; ENOUGH IN VALLEY TOOROP. EACH TIME PASSED OZ AREA WHILE DESCENDING LIGHT BLINKEO. STARTED DROPPING ON FOURTH CIRCUIT AND DROPPED THREE BUNDLES EACH TI ME DURING NEXT FOUR EACH TIME APPROACHING DROP AREA LIGHT WOULD FLASH .GIVING SHIP SOMETHING TO LINE UP ON. MADE ONE MORE CIRCLE CLIM'HNG OUT* OF VALLEY AND HEAOED NM APPROACHED GUAT CITY (BLACKED 'OUT) FR'JM SW HEADING NE. BRIGHT LIGHT FLASHFOROM AIRPORT. ASEET AS CAME ACROSS EDGE OF

STARTED DROPPING LEAFLETS JUST INSIDE CITY COULD SEE RR

ON LEFT RUNNING THR PALACE.

iFEET HEA0INQ TOWARD IrV KjJ^EffVtW PALACE AREA <AND NORTH OF RR STATION. TURNED OUT OVERrNE .CORNER OF CITY., AA LOOKED LIKE LARGER CAL IB THANM. ESTM. PILOTS STATE FIRING LOOKED ACCURATE. PILOTS SAW LEA IT FOUR TRACERS JUST AHEAD OF

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a/Co one spotter climbing in dome saw several tracersr. leaflet kicker est SA7 at least six tracers out of rear door ab-uteet off tail,

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