MOVEMENTS OF CUARDIA NACIONAL ALONG COSTA RICAN BORDER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002100180003-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 24, 1998
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: November 26, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

CLASSIFICATION -- -1-PROwn
Approved For Re eL1 OCI P82-0045M0LTQM1
INFORNIAT
"OUNTRY icaragua/Costa Rica
OBJECT oaement s of Cuardia acional along Costa Rican
Border
,,-'LACE.
I:CQUIRED
SATE Or I
A
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DATE DISTR.
26 '~ovemberr, 1948
NO. OF PAGES
1
NO. OF ENCLS.
(LISTED BELOW)
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
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MM loaded Guardia trucks frequently 25X1 X6
move along the roads at night. there are now about
two hundred Guardia in Yenas Blanoas and about sixty in Los M-,ojones on 25X1X6
the Pacific. In other points on the Costa 'Rican border along Lake Nicaragua
there are small patrol posts. About sixty Cuardia are stationed in Rivas.
there are entrenchments in Penas Blancas, and the men there are reportedly
armed with heavy and light machine gunds and trench mortars. 25X1 X6
the newspapers had been exaggerating 25X1 X6
or even fabricating the stories of the Costa Rican exiles near Rivas. -
~they number thirty, and certainly represent no real danger to Figueres.
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the garrison at Penas Blancas fluctuates from
two hundred to four hundred men, although rarely reaching the latter figure.
Somoza kept the ruardia marching in and out of Tenas 3lancas
ur ne to n " ts, as part of his war.of-nerves strategy against the FiguereE
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4. The number of Costa Rican exiles in Nicaragua is rerorted to be diminishing
.rapidly. The majority of them are quartered in the house of AnYhal Chamorro,
or sleep in the railroad station. They receive fond and meaner equipment
from the 'uardia, and whenever any of the group wishes to leave, no effort
i s made to stop him.
T %a 4 current is hereby regraded to
CONFI L In accordance w ,th the
n s..-- the
Director of Central " aonC = to the
Archivist of the United v~
Next Review Date. 2 - 3
CLASSIFICATION CTNFIDENTI'AL
Date: 1
tj ICE: TH?S DIS"'R'_-BUT-ON LISTING MUST #
EXCISED BEFORE PUBLIC REEL
Approved For Rebease 1999/09/08: CIA-RDP82-00457R00210018,0003-0.