COVERT PERSONNEL IN WSBURNT (W/ATTACHMENT)

Created: 8/29/1953

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Chief,hief of Station, Guatemala

Covert Peraonnel In WSBURNT

Headquarters ia aware, thie station haa only one C"

"Jin .the subject category.' His permit to remain ina/ill expireabrmary

was previously assigned to thia stationovert capaoiTy but returned to QKCIOAR onnd this station hae not been advieed as to whether he vill return* Eliot P. RAZ1SADA was ezpeotad to be able to do work for us in thie country but for reasons known to Headquarters, he has notto us ae yet.

We feel that it is highly, important that we have at least twoin thie country at ell tines, and we recoraaena inat heaoquarcers give consideration to sending toeplacementsoon as possible. Slnoe HEDI1BR will ornoooaoxby nave toaeave priorebruaryplana must be made at the preaent time for his replacement approximately one month in advance of his required date of departure.

With reference to cover possibilities existing in thise^are particularly favorable to the Idea of using ths cover o^

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our agent oouioif necessary,

with one brief stay outTn me country extend his stay to ae orach as two yeara. arson under such cover could be used to develop outlets for our KUftOftN material and could be uaed for other types of operations.

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This country does notirat class foreign correspondent for an international wire service. Thereocalfor Time magazine who is an American citisen and the son of naturalized American porente who were born in Russia ande have no confldonce. In fact, we think that it is hi'dily possible that ho may be soorotly unaympa'hetic to our cause.

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Thereocal correspondent for Reuters who alao doee work for the Now York Spanish language publication Vision,. Be is an American citizen but completely untrustworthy, not from an ideological point 'of view but for the reason that he cannot keep bis mouth ahut and sometimes drinks very heavily and bo-comaa Involved in brawla. The same can be said fororrespondent. Ths Chicago Tribuneull time correspondent stationed in Panama who visits this country aboutear.

Wa feel that with the high degree of Communist influence in the present government and with the conalderable publicity given to that situation, thlalaceull time correspondent for the International Hews Service,ne chain of newspapers in QKCISAR, could be stationed without oaualng suspicion that he .may-be primarily engaged for other purposes. We believeighly competent Trewwpaper jaan. would be of Inestimable value to us and could -probahlz^ucoessfUlly -develop..andUFIRE net. It ls believed that at" the-warns,tisM we could" affordorrespondent considerablefortress release, thus effectively carrying out our propaganda campaign. It would be preferable that euch agentire aer-vlce furnishing-materialewspapers ln other Lstin Amorloan countries. It la not known whether it would ba possible to sotuitable arrangement, but information haa been received that the Associated Preaw representative has baen eo unsatla-factory that consideration la being given to the appointment of an Indigenous person.

We recommend that Headquarters'"explore.the possibilitiesfor the assignment

as indicated, and we would appreciate receivingt

Headquarters to our proposal concerning such an agent into the

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