GUATEMALAN COMMUNIST EMERGENCY PLANS CALL FOR SEIZURE OF PRIVATE

Created: 6/14/1954

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Guatecalan Communist emergency plans call for seizure ol private plantations: THo Cbl^iiist-conzroilcorToTir^nnd Jarm workers confederations ln Guatemala have Jjialrjictad eventn tho

fn ffergency, accordingource considered reliable by the American embassy. The workers have been in-

finwS?'rJcelptRn amerGoncy call from eitheror from President Arbenz, to seize all vehicles and supplies on the plantations and to escort tho owners or

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Comment: This report strengthens previous evidence thatP^parinc for vigorous action to counter any attack on then or on the Arbenz regime.

. Communist-controlled local agrariae cormittess aro? aPlcUltural ar<>o. along the Pacific coast, S rly in tbe DePartr.ent of Escuintla, xvhere some have

UsuLSr't thC functionsGovernment itSJrlS J ? R" farm vorheirs in this area were llUJlt ,inva<Je numerous private properties in what thembassy considered an effort to condition the workers to violent action under Communist leadership.

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