GUATEMALAN WHO AIDED CIA NOW SEEKING HELP

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200540018-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: October 15, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

Approved'For Release 2000 2 ? CI RDF75 Ug001
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C YRGHT ? BY JERI?%MIAT1' O'LEARY
Latin America writer of The Star
Roberto Alejos, the man who provided the Central n to
gence Agency with training areas in Guatemala for the Bayof Pigs invasion, is appealing to the Organization of American'
States to help end the exile into which he has been cast by the;
present military government. of Guatemala,
headed by Manuel Bianchi of
Chile, to ask 'intercession on his
behalf with the government of
Col. Enrique'Peralta Azurdia.
The wealthy 43 - year - old
Guatemalan politician and land-
owner told, reporters after the
OAS session that he-has, been
living in exile in Miami since
shortly after the Peralta coup
d'etat In March, 1963.
He said he was seized when
he tried to return-to Guatemala
last May and was held prisoner
for two days before being flown
to Nicaragua in a military
plane. Alejos said he believes
the Peralta government wanted
him out of the country because
he was one of the candidates
for the presidency in the No-
vember, 1963, election canceled
by the Peralta coup.
Alejos'declared the junta that
overthrew the government of
Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes and
now rules without aconstitution
is acting in an -"Iron.-fisted and
arbitrary manner, persecuting
political adversaries and gross-
ly denying the Guatemalan
people their essential rights."
He ' said the Guatemalans
must be ? given their rights of
free speech, assembly, hone inviolability, petition and fair
trial if the nation is to.return to
' ^.
constitutional order.
The United States extuldad
recognition to,, the ,Peralta; a.'e-
glme a few Weeks vdier the
Approved ,f br F ease,. 4
efoi
revolution. Peralta has prom
ised Guatemala a new constitu-.
tion by March 15 and election
six ,months after that.
Alejos declared it Is a mis-
take to recognize any military
regime anywhere in the world
There will never be any order
he said, if "every little man i
uniform" can disrupt a lega,
government by force of arms. He said his large coffee plan
tation, "Helvetia," the training
ground used by the anti-aastr
Brigade 2506 before the Bay o
Pigs invasion, has been sob
but lie believed anti-Casty
commando forces are usin
other properties of his in , Gu
temala for training.
Other anti-Castro Cubans' ar
training on property.; of th
ruling Somoza family.'
Alejos said he. is dow? in th.
construction business 1 n'??Mia