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Created: 6/14/1954

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REPOTTEDUNE TO SKILLET AND KARMANY THAT DURING INTERVIEW MORNINGUNE WITH CALLJCEBIS IN LATTEPS HOUSE HE OBSERVED "GREAT ACTIVITY, MANY PEOPLE COMING AND GOING, PROMINENT AND RECENT ftSBURNT EXILES, LARGE QUANTITIES ODYOKE MONEY." ONUNE C -JCALLEP CALL'GERIS, REPORTEDLY FROM SAN PEDRO SULA, ASKING CALLIGERIS TO LET HIM KNOW 8EF0RE HE "STARTED ANYTHING".

PRINCEP OF OPINION CALLIGERIS MOPE INTERESTED GOOD PRESS RELATIONS THAN SECURITY, SINCE SEVERAL RECENT EPISODES SIMILAR TO ABOVE INDICATE CALLIGERIS RELEASING MATERIAL MOPE FACTUAL THAN DECEPTIVE TO PRESS. THIS DESPITE REPEATED SECURITY BRIEFINGS OF CALLIGERIS BY LUGTOM,

BELIEVE FACT THAT CORRESPONDENTS C- JATTEMPT CHECK OUT CALLIGERIS STORIES WITH SKILLET,AND KARMANY PRIOR TO FILING SAME, INDICATIVE THE IP STRONG BELIEF ODYOKE BACKING OF CALLIGERIS, WHICH DENIED BY THOSE APPROACHED.

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