SALVADORAN AID FOR NICARAGUAN REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002300070009-4
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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 1, 1998
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: January 31, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY El Salvador/Nicaragua
SUBJECT Salvadoran Aid for Nicaraguan Revolutionary
movement.
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DATE DISTR. 31 3 eso 1949
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
1. Vicente Saenz, Union Democratica Centro-Americana leader, addressed the
Salvadoran governing Junta on 2 January, during his visit from Mexico
with Juan Jose Meza. He warned that the Junta's knowledge of Communist
activity was obsolete, since new leaders had taken the place of the old
established personalities. He advised the immediate development of a
labor program to neutralize the appeal of Communism to the labor classes.
Saenz added that labor leaders could easily be found to support a just
program, and that capitalists would not block it either.
2. Following Saenz' speech, Juan Jose 1eza took the floor, and after censuring
the Figueres regime in Costa Rica for obstructing the Nicaraguan revolutionary
movement, he made some predictions about the future of the movement. He
said that the invasion against Sonioza would have to be postponed indefinitely
since Figueres had let the opportune moment slip by',, and that when the time
came, Costa hioa would not be the base of operations? He also ruled out
Uuatemala, and added that Cuba would probably try to get back the armaments
which had been lent to support the movement, and which are now held by the
Nicaraguans Neza conjectured that President Prio, thinking the Nicaraguan
invasion a lost cause, might lend the arms to Venezuela or Colombia.
3, 43za said that the revolutionists' major problem was keeping control of
the arms, and he begged the Junta to store them in El Salvador. His request
was denied, although there was some indication that the decision was not
finale, since Major Oscar Osorio,, head of the Junta, told Meza to return to
Mexico and await a call within the next four to eight weeks,
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