CABLE TO DIRECTOR FROM SHERWOOD RE GUATEMALA 1954 COUP

Created: 6/6/1954

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1..ICKED UP BT FBI IN CU&A, AGENTS NAMES ANDERSON AND SPEARSc NFORMED BY SPEARS THAT HE WAS GOING TO BE PICKED BY CUBAN POLICE FOR QUESTIONING UNLESS HE* SPEARS, TOLD THE POLICE THAT AS OK, SPEARS WANTED TO KNOW WHERE OT ALL HIS MONEY THAT HE WIRED HOME-

?. DURiK'G QUESTIONING SPEARSHERE HE ENIED ANY KNOWLEDGE OF ANY CONTRACT READIST OFAMES OF PEOPLE WHO SlGNEOOF THEAMES WERE OUR PILOTS INCLUDNftuE)

TATED HE DID NOT KNOW ANY OF THE NAMES EXCEPT HIS ROOM MATE IN THE HOTEL-,

SPEARSO COME CLEAN OR THE CUBAN POLtCE WOULD HAVE HfM INN LESS THAN ONE HOUR FORARTLANED CUBAN REVOLT - DURING A ONE HOUR DEBRIEFING SPEARS ONLY LEARNED FROH HAT HE HAS Ofc HIS WAY TO UANAOURIST-

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t*. SPEARS TOLDHAV HE WAS SATlSFSEDAD NO -NYEREST EN CUBA AND FURTHER STATEO THATSPEARSg KNEW ALL ABOUT HiS CONTRACT AND WISHEDUCK IN HIS NEW JOB* SPEARS TOLOHAT If HE HAD ANT TROUBLE AT THE HAVANA AIRPORT TO GIVEALL ANO HE WOULD HELP HIM LEAVE0

5* 3DEN ASOMERSET (RECEIVED SOWERSEY) WITHOUT' FURTHER MISHAP*

6., THO STEftPLE PILOTS AND FOUR KfCKERS NOW AT SOMERSET-LAST TWO STERJLE PILOTS EVAoND

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