LATIN AMERICA - 5. CASTRO REGIME PLANS ARMS AID TO GUATEMALAN LEFTISTS

Created: 11/4/1960

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LATIN AMERICA

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The Castro regime isfinancial assistance and intends to provide weapons to the Guatemalan Communist partyommunist-Infiltrated Guatenalan revolutionary group, accordingsually reliable source with contacts among higb Cuban officials. "Che" Guevara, with the approval of Fidel and Raul Castro, la said to have given the Guatemalanast month on thetbat the Guatemalanplay tho leading role in tbe revolution,

Former GuatemalanArbenz, now in Cuba, is to be the "Bavanaof the noveaent. The goal is tbe destruction of the Guatemalan Army and theof thes In Cuba.

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