ABDUCTION OF PRESIDENT OF SUPREME COURT AND MINISTER OF INFORMATION. ASSASSINAT

Created: 5/5/1966

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ABDUCTION OF PRESIDENT OF SUPREME COURT ANO MINISTER OF INFORMATION. ASSASSINATION OF LATTERS' SON AND CHAUFFEUR.

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FERNANDO MORALES MARTINEZ, SON OF BALTAZAR MORALES DE LA

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CRJZ, SECRETARY OF INFORMATION OF ;TKE GUATEMALAN GOVERNNEKT, ANDOITAN CANIZALES, THEERE BOTH SHOT TO DEATH0AY AT SECOND STREET BETWEENND 9TH AVENUES, ZONE UATEMALA CITY. THE ASSASSINSEEP, LICENSE PLATES9 WHICH THEY ABANDONED AT THE SCENE OF THE CRIME.

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KIDNAPPED BY UN IDENTIFIED ARMED PERSONS ON THE NIGHTAY AS HE

VAS RETURNING TO HIS HOME FROM HIS OFFICE^

5. BALTAZAR MORALES DE LA CRUZ WAS KIDNAPPED ON THEAY IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE ASSASSINATION OF HIS SON AND CHAUFFEUR.

THE ASSAILLANTS MADE OFF WITH MORALES IN HIS OFFICIAL CAR, OFFICIAL

. LICENSEII. MORALES WAS OH HIS WAY BACK TO HIS OFFICE

FROM HIS HOME AT THE TIME OF HIS ABDUCTION AND THE KILLING OF HIS

SON AND HIS CHAUFFEUR. YOUNG MORALES WAS NOT RIDING WITH HIS FATHER

BUT EPARATE CAR.

4. ASAY NEITHER MORALES DE LA CRUZ NOR HIS CAR HAD BEEN LOCATED. POLICE STILL HAD NO CLUES AS TO THE WHEREABOUTS

OF DE LEON. THE ONLY LEAD THEY HAD WAS THAT .ONE OF THEOR AD BEEN ISSUED TO EFRAIN SANTIZO CANET .

MtHIMtrrt LYMOUTH CAR. THE MAY PRESS REPORTED THAT

THE JEEP WAS EQUIPPED WITH TWO SETS OF LICENSE PLATES, THE TOP PLATES BEARING THEE BOTTOM PLATES THE

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. SANTIZO HAS NOT BEEN LOCATED NOR IDENTIFIED KE MORNING PRESSAY REPORTED THE

KILLINGS OF LUIS FERNANDO MORALES MART INEZ AND ISABEL POITAN CANIZALES,

AND THE KIDNAPPING OF ROMEO AUGUSTO DE LEON. THE NEWSPAPERS

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ALSO REPORTED THAT MORALES DE LA CRUZ.HAD DISAPPEARED AND THERE WERE CONFLICTING STORIES AS TO WHETHER OR HOT HE HAD BEEN. i STATE ARMY AIR CINCLANT CINCSO.

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