RQM/OIS memo to DAD/CI of 15 December 1953, requesting information on he Caribbean Legion.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP62-00865R000100070014-1
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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 3, 2000
• Sequence Number: 14
• Content Type: MEMO

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THROUGH: Chief,,
f.15 December 1955, requesting 25X1A8a
information on the Caribbean Legion,,
1. Attached is a report on the Caribbean Legion prepared in
answer to the questions posed in the subject memo.
2. It is the opinion of the 25X1A8a
that the Caribbean Legion in no longer in existence as an ef-
fecative organization, but that both "democratic" and "dictatorial"
elements in the Caribbean area find it advantageous to maintain
the fiction of an organized Legion in order to gain support and,
sympathy for their respective ideologies. Moreover, because the
name "Caribbean Legion" does retain the prestige associated with
its earlier, and relatively effective, organization, it seems
probable that the name will continue to be used by ambitious
revolutionary elements.
S. Recent unconfirmed reports speak of sizeable armed
forces in existence in Guatemala. These reports cannot be evalu-
ated without further investigation. However, it is possible that
organization similar to the Legion has been organized as the
raw material for such an organization does exist in the various
groups of exiles and political dissidents who are continually
plotting to seize power in their respective countries. If or-
ganized, the group probably has the liberal-leftist orientation
of the earlier Legion, but its immediate objectives and its
leaders probably differ, inasmuch as the most important exile
groups at the present time are Venezuelan and Cuban, in contrast
to the Nicaraguan and Dominican elements which formerly dominated
the Legion.
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