BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF ARMANDO AMADOR FLORES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000900420007-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 28, 1999
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: September 22, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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5. P,r-adoi? retmmed to :'?icc,ro.-:?ua i; rcb_ruar ?- 1946, in res..once to call for help
from, 'pis "brothers in LC '.ra Ua," as he ?:rrote in explanation of his sudden
'e'r,:_?tuse. I'e .?e naresented the C N at the Labor Con -:rosy hold bj the Con-
fo.- - raeion do . b.a.j .:?oree do 1-Lv :rica Latina (C JL) in- San Jose, Costa pica,
thro:),U'rt 13 ocenber i 4u. U:;on his t'.u?> to : cna ua, 16 j)ecommber 1946, he
as a ra'ostod b i;h ; r
r at the 7 T` )ort for 1:..v] I?~ ne.,lectoe.
to obtain r. rotuni visa, but -ra released the following clay. From that time
until June 1947, when lie became one of the firtit victims of 3or^oza's anti--
Co 'unist cur_paign, Tina dor resut:?a:' his duties as labor reporter for a :O
a and continued to publicize the Cor .unist-dor-.inatod side of he labor move-
mont and to ridicule the op-, osition ;-romps, In Juno, however, J'aador wa
forced to sec?: refuge in tho Ar;;ontinc LcEc tion from which he Was able to
proceed to Guatemala. !'is stay in (hw.temala was short. E e is reiortod to
have worked. there for a Creek in a shoe repair shop until he received funds
from an unknown source, whereupon he .-rent to a:oxico for a few days, recoiving
a royal welcome from the C'2L faction as a labor leader, and then on to Cuba.
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