GENERAL- PBSUCCESS - K-PROGRAM - SPECIFIC- U.S. INVOLVEMENT IN PBSUCCESS

Created: 5/18/1954

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from : Chief of Station, Guaterai SUBJECT: R03RAM

specific- . Involvewent in PBSUCCESS

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1. On tho basin of intenslvo discussions over this issue withwhomor.sldor? representative in tho sense ofng the viewsignificant segment of the politically conscious part of the Guatemalan people, it can be stated that tho active rirtlcipation. elements in the pursuit of PBSUCCESS objectivesefinite and inporttnt assat whoseahould be pushed to the absolute limit. Thisisora striking inasmuchGF had been led to anticipate that ever: patriotic and anti-coraunlnt TOir.berse

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would resent our role and insists that this tied strictlywithin tho domestic pale. Quite pasrs that Guatemalans accept our precise

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soil and believeurhe pronation. business interests roduct of PBSUCCESS, arr sincere. SQUIREthc aforesaid applies withoutt son safely be assueod thatofosftion will rsact likewise.

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f th* conclusions presented in paragraphtonsldor sjggesting to the Bearstary ofpportunet be Issued t? thsiat'er of courseympathetic ands tbe oeur^gaoas efforts of GuMll var* wffr-Ist attests tothesfala.'1 tatesatttt, is the

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,, by no stretcL of tlie Irje^lnstion,iral intervention in the dnrteitlc affairs of

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at Caracas, that tha donln&tlon af the political insti tut

:iy Ana.can state, "wouldhreat to the a*flf us all,e pRF.eeor appropriate action ir. acc-rrtfftnaa with

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