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and told him of our interest zn interviewing PERE2 RPT PERE2.
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2- uhen perez arrived, some twenty hinutes
told hxnepresented the us rpt us government andAS interested in obtaining additional details concerning the STORY WHICH PERE2 rad already related* perez vas entirely willing to TALK and expressed the desire to be-as helpful as possible on the GROUND THAT THE information which he had would be of value to his employer and WOULD also be useful in thwarting the designs of the communist ELEMENTS WHO were in control in guatemala*
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3. WHILEVAS TEMPORARILY ABSENT FROM THE OFFICE
PEREZ SAID THAT THE INFORMATION CONCERNING THE PROSPECTIVE ARMSBEEN GIVEN TO HIM ONAYPTAYAPTAINRPT CAPTAIN FERNANDO CABRERA, AN OFFICER IN THEOf mARMY. THIS NAME HAS NOT BEEN DIVULGEDTO ANY IT CO RPT UTCO OFFICIAL. HE SAID THAT HE HADSEVERAL YEARS AGO BY LENDING HIH MONEY AND FINDING HIM AT THEIR MEETING LAST FRIDAY CARRERA EXPRESSEDPAST FAVORS AND SAID HE HOPED THAT HE BIGHT REPAY THE OBLIGATIONTO PEREZ INFORMATION VH1CH VOULD BE OF CONSIDERABLETHE UNITED FRUIT COMPANY AND WHICH BIGHT RESULT IN THE SAVINGLIFE* CARRERA 8AID THAT THE GUATEMALAN ARMY INTELLIGENCEPREPARED SEVERAL VOODEN CASES CONTAINING RIFLES, AMMUNITION,OS pO^^SStM|LED ARTILLERY PIECES, ALL OF US RPT USMARKED THlTM FRUITND HAD FORCEDTO SHOW THAT THE CASES HAD BEEN IMPORTED INTO GUATEMALAAS REPLACEMENT MACHINERY. THE CASES WERE TO BE BURIED INTHO LOCALITIES ON PROPERTY OVNED BY THE UNITED FRUITWTH GREAT FANFARE, THE GUATEMALAN ARMY INTELLIGENCEVOULD DISCOVER THE CASES, VOULD CALL INRESENT THE CASES AND SHIPPING
DOCUMENTS ASnT UNITED FRUIT COMPANY VAS PLANNING THE OVERTHROW OF THE GUATEMALAN GOVERNMENT. THIS WOULD BE FOLLOVED BY AN OFFICIAL DECLARATION THAT THE UNITED FRUIT COMPANY VAS ENGAGED INACTIVITIES AND, ULTIMATELY, BY THE COMPLETE CONFISCATION OFF THE COMPANY'S ASSETS IN GUATEMALA.
A. CARRERA SAID THAT PEREZ HAS SLATED TO BE THE CHIEF VILLAIN AS THE ALLEGED LIAISON MAN BETWEEN THE UNITED FRUIT COMPANY AND DISSIDENT ELEMENTS IN GUATEMALA AND THAT VHEN THE CASES OF ARMS HEREEREZ WOULD BE ARRESTED AND, MOST PROBABLY, EXECUTED. CARRERA SAID THAT HE PERSONALLY DISAPPROVED OF THE PLOT AGAINST THE UNITED FRUIT COM-
RANY ANDREAT MANY OT THE ACTIONS OF THE GUATEMALAN GOVERNMENT BUT THAT HE VAS IN THE MATTER SO DEEPLY THAT HE THOUGHT IT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE FOR HIM TO EXtRlCAtt HIMSEtT. HE BEGGED PEREZ TO LOOK AFTER HIS THREE SMALL CHILDREN. IN THE EVENT ANYTHING HAPPENED TO CABRERA, AND URGED THAT THEY BE PLACED IN THE CARE OF CARRERA'S SISTER,C
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3CARRERA SAID THAT HIS SISTER'S HUSBAND WAS AN EMPLOYEE OF THE FBI RPT FBI IN WASHINGTON*
CABRERA SAID THAT THE CHIEF CACHE OF ARMS VOULD BE MADE NEAR THE EAST COAST OF GUATEMALA AND ALSO NEAR THE HONOURAN BORDER. THE EXACT PLACE WHERE THE CACHE VOULD BE HADE VAS NOT APPARENTLY KNOWN TO CARRERA BUT HE GUESSED THAT IT VOULD BE IN THE VICINITY OF THE UNITED FRUIT COMPAHT ABACA RPT ABACA FACTORY ON THE "CHINOOK RPT CHINOOK" THAT FACTORY IS LOCATED ON THE NORTHERN BANK OF THE MOTAGUA RPT MOTACUA RIVERPUR TRACK OF THE ENTRE RIOS RPT RIOS RAILROAD* THERE ISTOVN IN THE VICINITY. TKt OTHER CACHE VILL BE MADE ON THE BANANA PLANTATIONS IN THE AREA BETWEEN MORALES RPT MORALES AND LOS AMATES RPT LOS ABATES. CABRERA VAS NOT SURE, BUT THOUGHT THAT THE MOST LIKELY PLACE FOR MAKING THE CACHE VOULD BE NEAR THE SMALL TOVN OF PLAYITAS RPT PLAYITAS, VHICH IS ON THE PAVNEE RPT PAWNEE PLANTATION AT THE POINT WHERE THE BOBOS RPT BOBOS RAILROAD CROSSES THE CHINAMITO RPT CHINAM1TO RIVER. PEREZ SAID THAT ABOUT ONE HUNDRED FIFTY GUATEMALAN SOLDIERS ARE NOVIN THE VICINITY OF PLAYITAS RPT PLAYITAS OSTENSIBLY FOR THEOF GUARDING THE NEARBY BORDER*
PEREZ SAID THATESULT OF THE CURRENT STRIKE, CONDITIONS THROUGHOUT SOUTHEASTERN GUATEMALA AREHAOTIC CONDITION, THAT THE GUATEMALAN ARMY IS OPERATING THE INTERNATIONAL RAILVAYS AS WELL AS TRUCKS, AUTONOBIUS AND OTHER VEHICLES BELONGING TO THE UFCO RPT UFCO AND THAT UNDER COVER OF THE GENERAL CONFUSION AND BECAUSE OF THE LACK OF MOBILITY OF ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL OF THE UNITED FRUIT COMPANY, IT VOULD BE MITE SIMPLE FOR THE GUATEMALAN ARMY TO BURY THE CACHES OF ARMS VITHOUT RUNNING MUCH CHANCE OF DETECTION. HE ALSO POINTED OUT THAT IT VOULD BE EASILY POSSIBLE TO LOAD THE CASES INTENDED FOR CONCEALMENT ON THE ABACA FARMS ON BARGES AT PUERTO BARRIOS, TO BRING THEM THROUGH THE GULF OF HONDURAS AND UP THE RIO MOTACUA RPT RIO MOTACUA TO THE VICINITY OF THE ABACA FACTORY.
SEEN THI FORCED SHIPPING DOCUMENTS AS WELLUMBER of AFFIDAVITS TENDING TO IMPLICATE PEREZ IN THE ILLEGAL IMPORTATION OF the ARMS AND
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PERE2 SAID THATRECENTLY BEEN CHANGED
AND THATESICNaYIONLACE OF RESIDENCE VASNTIGUANTI8UA." CARREftA LIVES WITH HIS MOTHER and three CHILDREN AT THE ADDRESS GIVEN. HE HAS BEEN DIVORCED FROM his wife.
9. BY TODAY'SMHOTOSTATap SHOWING the VARIOUS PLANTATIONS OF THE UNITED FRUIT COMPANY in SOUTHEASTERN GUATEMALA WHICH WILL BE OF SOME ASSISTANCE IN LOCATING THE AREAS WHERE the CACHES ARE TO be KADE,
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FRUIT COMPANY ONIM REPEAT the
STORY TO AN EMISSARY FROM THE US RPT US EMBASSY IN GUATEMALASAID THAT THE INDIVIDUAL TO WHOM HE TALKED STATED that HE hasOF THE FBI rpt FBI, on MONDAY MORNING,ay 5AMAYTOLD PERE2 THAT THE US RPT US EMBASSY HAD VERIFIED
THE TROTH OF HIS STORY AND HAD ADVISED HIM TO GET out of GUATEMALA AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. PERE2 THEN WENTRIEND ofHYSICIAN, WHO CATCALSE CERTIFICATE to THE EFFECT THAT PERE2 was
OWCANCER"AND THAT HE REQUIRED MEDICAL TREATMENT IN the us VHPT USV CN" -RTIFICATE PISE2 OBTAINEDHA us RPT us VISA AND SLEW- TO THSSTATES- BYf" LINES* ONay KT'tfTOTS- TO REMAIN IN NEW" ORLEANS INDEFINITELY.
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