CABLE TO DIRECTOR FROM GUATEMALA CITY RE GUATEMALA 1954 COUP

Created: 5/2/1954

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CIA HISTORICAL REVIEW PROGRAM RELEASE AS SANITIZED

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CITE: SGUAI

1 WAY THAT UNIDENTIFIED FRIEND RECENTLY

VISITED POO TUN, LOCATED IN SOUTHEAST PE TEN AND IN OIRECT LINE BETWEEN FLCRES AND LIVINGSTON. GOVERNMENT HAS MOVED OUT ALL POCTUN INHABITANTS ON FALSE PRETEXT LACK OF WATER. NO PUBLICITY GIVEN WOVE. FOCTUN NOWO NUMEROUS LARGE BOXESPPARENTLY CO'/ING VIA RIO DULCE TO SOME POINTKE IZA8AL AMD THEN TO POCTUN.

FR,EN0GEIGER COUNTER SINCE HE BELIEVES

BOXES CONTAIN ATOMIC MATERIAL AND WISHES INVESTIGATE FURTHER.

ESPERANCE IF LATTER KNEE1 WHERE GEIGER COUNTER

COULD BE OBTAINEO. ESPERANCE SUGGESTED INVESTIGATOR FRIEND USE UNEXPOSED FILM.

OMMENT: POCTUN KNOWN AS AREVALO DEVELOPMENTTHESIS DOUBTFUL BUT POSSIBLE GOVERNMENT BRINGING INWHY UP TO POCTUN. ESPERANCE SAYSvERY FRIGHTENED.

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