LETTER FROM CALLIGERIS TO "SUPREME JEFE OF GROUP", I.E., DIRECTOR. (W/ATTACHMEN

Created: 1/22/1954

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CHIEF, WH FROM: SEEKFORD

SUBJECT: Letter from CALLIGERIS to "Supreme Jefe ofirector.

1. CALLIGERIS has asked SEEKFORD to transmit the attached letter to the "Top" Commander of Group. As per request, SEEKFORD asks that letter be brought to the attention of Director.

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RYBAf

Senor Jafe

de los amigos de "EListlnguido and go i

Aunque an otras ocaalonea he deaeadod. para erponerle nuestros probleaaa, mo habla abatenido da hacer La para no quebrantar lea nomas establocldas por Lain embargo, ahora la enorme reaponeabiUdad que tengo ante Udo. porde nuestros planes, ante ml pueblospedalmente ante las nuaerosas personaa que han vonldo colaborando lealmante con noaotros durante Largos anoa de lucha, ae hace preaentarle directamente una brere ezposiclon de ads puntee de vistaa altuacion que confrontamos, asl:

Es lnposlble contlnuar en el plan de espera en que hemos venido duranteedio por mas tiempo del estrlctaaente neccBario.-Ii.no es preolaameote por laa lnnuaeraa dlficultades que tree censigo men toner nueatra organiaacion enl mtsmo tiempo en capaoldad para aotuar, alnoadle de nuestros amigoB que componen esa organiaacion podrla yo eonvencer de que no aoy farsante despuea de que termlne este varano eln que hayaaos podldo hacer nada.-Deolr otra coaa aeriaa ponemos al margen de la verdad,-

atlno que ha habldo una apreciclaclon general de la altuacion fuera de la realidad.-Algunoa factoresel eneadgo se ban superor el contrario, otros han sldo menoaprecladofl.-Entre los prlmeros puedo oitar el plan delapacidad de combato del enemlgo.-

or la trascendental lmportancla que tendra, consldero que laa conferenclaa que dentro dm poeoa dieseal le en en el aaa alto nlTelin de hacer una rerlaion provechosa de leoncretar loa pasos que deben darse para el desarrollo de la fase final de nuestros planes, dentro del plazo mas corto quec tibia.-

No pueden pasar lnadvertidoa en eatos brerea coaentarlos los ouf rial en too de toda Indole que han venido padeclendo nuestras genetes, los cualeo han aoportado con estoicisao por la eegurldad que han abrigado de que noaotros estasosevolverles la libertad perdlda, porro no es posible esperar que tal eatado de anlmo continue Indefinidaaentc, ante la crude realldad de la desastrosa situaclon que vlven, sin que nosotroa podamos ayudarloa enoabres fueron aorllitadoa hace dies nrees, abendonando hljos,ogares porque tuvleron fe en noootros, en el valor de nueatra plabra eopenada; todos alios auaentaron sus penaa con esta altuacion por la perdlda de tiempo, por la aayor vigilancla de que fueron objecto los queor la desorganlaacion foralt de los quo preflrieron quedarse.-En ambos caaos ha aldo Indispensable ayudarlos econoalcaaente para no dejarloa perecerislcamente.-

o obstante que presupuestos han sldo elaborados dentro de la aayor econoaly aprobadoa oportunaraonte, se ha vonido propezando alempre congraves consecuenciae, puen lotencion do lajecucloninfidad de trabajos, reaultan 1naplaxables,-Dentro de nuestros maseata el de La devoluclon de todoe loaaatos queues es obvio que una eapresa do tan enormeala que estamoeabo, no puede realiaarse si noasefuerte inversion economic

Tengoomo you todos losque esta ret nuestros planes nouirlv otro atraso.-Puog, por las experienclaa obtenidas en las doa Tecee anterlores, consldero que un tercer aplasaalento soria de lrreparables consecuenclas, tan to iu ahora qua ya heaos traaladado un nucleo de nuestros hoabres haata Nicaragua, adaas de loa que tenemoe an Elooduras.-

Cono no es poaibla dlsoutlr en todas sua partes estos aspectos yotros Has que no fueron nl qlquiera mencionadoa en esta ocaslon, espero Uevar com! go cuanta documentacion sea necesaria, con el deaeo de exponer con absolutaentro de laonrados conque elerapro hemos procedldo, cuanto sea neeesario para que por nlngun motivo se pueda posponer mas el aas grande dla de al vldai LA LIBERACION DE KIon ella la extlrpaclon dal cancer comuniata de este Continent*.-

CCA/

Slgnedt RUFUS

"RYBAT

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Director of tbe friends of "Thaistinguished Friend i

Although oo otherar* desired to direct myself to you in order to explain ourar* abstained froa doing it in order not to hinder the established standards of the organisation. However, now the enormous responsibility thatesult of our plans, hare before you, before our entire nation, and especially before the many people who nave been loyally collaborating with ua during the -winy years of our struggle, forcesto presentrief statement of my points of Tiew regarding tho situation ve confront, as followsi

i t. . any longer than is absolutely necessary

la impossible to continue/in that plan of waiting whloh vefollowing for the last yearalf. And it is not preciselytbe inmmurrabla diffloultleaars personally carried in orderour organisation in secret and at the ease timeapacitybut ratherould not convince any of our friends whoorganisationmretender if after the end of this eunxar

I had not bean able to accomplish anything. To say anythlnc else would exceed the margin of truth.

judge that there hase-eraluaUon of the situationto Che reality. Seme factors apropos of our situation and ofhare been orerly estimated, and on the other hand, others hare Among thean cite the enemy's propaganda plan

and ita equipment and capacity for

of the transcendental Importanceeneralonsider that the conferences in which we shall takea few days will realise on the highest possible level acr the actual and concrete steps that must be taken in order tofinal phase of our planshorter time than Is feasible.

A. In these brief comments the sufferings of every kind vhlch cur people have bean enduring cannot pass unnoticed. These things have been endured stolcly through the secure knowledge vhlob they have nutured that we are close to returning to them their lost liberty, but it Is Impossible to expect thattate of mind will continue indefinitely in the face of the crude reality of the disastrous situation in which they live, without our being able to help them in any vay. Two hundred men were mobilised ten months ago, ebandoing children, wives, and homes because they had faith in ua, In the value of our pledged ward) all of them have seen their sufferings Increased with the Iocs of time, with the greater vigilance imposed on those who rtfWNfc-fri with the disruption of the families of those who preferred to rm*^rtnoSl& cases lt has been indispensable to aid them eoonomically in order to prevent them from suffering physically aa veil as morale-vise.

5. Although tba oxpanasa have boon drawn up with tho greatest poo al bio econony and promptly approved, they have always been followed up with delays of grave ooneequaocoa for tha food of th* people and the execution of aa Infinity of teaks have bad unfortunate results. One of our most firs Intent!a the return of ell of the funds end expendlturee that wa now hare, for lt le obvious that an enterprise of tha enormous proportions aa that wtaloh we are carrying out cannot be realised If it does nottrong eoonomln base.

6* are faith, aa do all of tha Guatemalans, that thla time our plans ara not going to suffer another failure. Thus, through tha experiences obtained in the preveloua twoonsiderhird failure would have irreparable consequences, even more so nowareucleus of our men to Nicaragua, in addition to those we hare in El Salvador and Honduras.

Aa It la not possible to discuss these aspects In their entirety and cany others that ware not even mentioned mn thisope to take with me as much documentation as may be necessary for tho purpose of explaining with absolute franknoea snd the spirit of elnoerlty and honor with which we have always proceeded now1 necessary it ls that that great day of myhe liberation of my country and with it the extirpation of the CconunlBt cancer ln thla continent, not ba postponed for any1 reason.

/a/ RUFUS

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