CABLE FROM LINCOLN FOR LAGEVIN PROVIDING "INSTRUCTIONS 2" RE MONDAY'S BROADCAST

Created: 6/14/1954

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FOR langevin. instruction 2.

1- following TOroadcast tonightIVING it ALL possible ElPHASIS, underlining seriousness by appropriate instroduc-tion.

2. message to army, form of personal appeal, spoken by senior officer active duty,national liberation committee. (begin TEXT outline). arbenz, under moscow's ORDERS, preparing order to army releasing huge arus stores, primarily hand grenaoes, TO campes-INOS, organizedunits by cowme-led cncg (castillo flores).

J. wo OFFICER, NOWCOV, soldier must obey any such order. ARBENZ NO LONGER president under constitution, but nobody elseO GiVE such orders either: constitution mikes arvy sole INSTITUTION ENTITLEO weapons, defense country. CNCG led byT5IES, THEREFORF, ILLEGAL ARTICLE

U. WHILE MAJORITY ca?ff>esinos godfearing, loyal citizens, COMWIES SELECT FOR their shock troops irresponsible elements ready

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FOR VIOLENCE,, COMMIES REALIZE SUCH GUERILLAS NO CHANCE AGAINST REGULAR ARMYj CANNOT HOPE FIGHTING AGAINST FORCES OTHER AMERICAN STATES THREATENED BY COMMIE CONSPIRACY, BUT WANT REIGN OF CIVILIAN TERROR, DESTROYING LIVES MIDDLE, UPPER CLASSES (INCLUDING ARMY OFFICERS, THEIR FAMILIES,ESTROYING OR SEIZING PRIVATE PROPERTY, PREPARING GROUND BOLSHEVIST REVOLUTION.

5. ARMY RESPONSIBLE PREVENT SUCH BLOODSHED, DESTRUCTION, IMMINENT OAMGER CIVIL, INTERNATIONAL WAR. MAKE SURE ALL ARMS STORES GUARDED BY RELIABLE ANTI-COMMUNISTS, BEWARE OF COMMIE POLICE. ANY OFFICER OR SOLDIER GUILTY FURNISHING ARMS TO CIVILIANS- WHETHER CAMPESINOS9 OTHER COMMIE-LED GROUPS, WILL BE PUNISHED BY LIBERATION MOVEMENT. ALLMJNISTS3 IN INTEREST THEIR LIVES AND PROPERTY* KEEP WATCHFUL EYE ALL ARMS STORES, REPORT ANY SUSPICIOUS MOVE IMMEDIATELY NEAREST ARMY OFFICER KNOWN TO BE NON-COMMUNIST AND TO LXAL LIBERATION COMMITTEE, ORGANIZE LOCAL RESISTANCE AGAINST ARMING COkfcME GROUPS,,

60 WARW ALL ARMY PERSONNEL THAT ARMING COMMUNIST CIVILIANS WOULD BERANKENSTEIN OF GROTESQUE PROPORTIONS WHICH WOULD SOON DESTROY THE ARMY THUSUICIDAL ACT. COMMUNISTS DO NOT TRUST ARMY AND THIS IS THEIR PRETEXT TO NEUTRALIZE ITS STRENGTH. AR3ENZ HAS SOLD HIS SOUL TO SOVIET AND NT.1 IS HLIPJDLY

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OBEYING MOSCOBS ORDER TO DESTROY THE ARMY HE ONCE LOVED. THIS DESTRUCTION OF THE ARMY WITHOUTHOT AGAINST COMMUNISM IS VASTLY MORE SERIOUS THAN THE OBVIOUS INSULT THAT ARMY IS INCAPABLE OF MAINTAINING ORDER WITHOUT ARMING RED CIVILIANS.

7. THIS LAST WARNING TO ARMY. GENERALLY KNOWN WHAT.REGULAR ARMIES WHEN COLWIES TAKE OYER. FEARFULRUSSIA, ALL OTHER COMMIES COUNTRIES, KILLING MOSTOTHER SOLDIERS. GUAT COMMIE BLOODSHED HILL BE EVENCOMMIES AROUSE RACIAL AND SOCIAL HATREDS. IF ARMY FALLING INTO COW IE HANDS, IT WOULDCCOMPLICECRI'TfS. ARMY TRADITION, HONOR,BUT ALSO WELL UNDERSTOOD PERSONAL INTEREST, PROTECTIONPOSITION, LIVES AND PROPERTIES ARMY PFRSONNEL ANDSUCH BETRAYAL. DON'T OBEY ANY ORDERS FROM ARBENZ OR ASK FOR WRITTEN ORDERS PINNING DOWNOFFICERS COLLABORATIMG WITH COMMIES I NO WEAPONS INTOALONE MUST MAINTAIN LAW, ORDER t DAY OF LIBERATION

EAR I (END BROADCAST WITH NATIONAL ANTHEM).

ABOVE BROADCAST TOEPEATED TOMORROW TUESDAY FIRST PROGRAV,

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