CABLE TO DIRECTOR FROM LINCOLN RE GUATEMALA 1954 COUP

Created: 5/22/1954

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CIA HISTORICAL REVIEW PROGRAM RELEASE AS SANITIZED

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CITE: SLINC

SECOND SHIP, SAGMA NOT LISTED ANY REGISTRY AND DETAILS THIS SHIP UNOBTAINABLE.) FOLLOWING DETAILS ON ALFHEM ARE BELIEVED ACCURATE:

An OIESEL MOTOR VESSEL

T LONG, ft FT BEAM,T ORAFT C0 GROSS, DEAD0

HULL TYPE AS FOLLOWS: VESSEL HAS SPLIT SUPER STRUCTURE PLACED IN CENTER OF SHIP. THIS SUPER STRUCTURE DIVIDED INTO TWO PARTSe FOREPART HAS BRIDGE AND MASTo AFT PART HAS SINGLE FUNNEL AND MAST, IN SHIP LINGO THIS KNOWN AS TYPEROFILE MKFM,

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STRAIGHT CARGO TYPE VESSEL. PRESUME REGULATION BOOMS RISE FROM DECK,

ABOVE TYPE INFO WILL BE PROVIDED ON CONTINUING BASIS IF

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available for any other suspect shbp which arrive in area.

bove from *ashb your photo shows ship at seaward end of pier, opposite white ship0

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