ENTRY OF ARMS INTO COLOMBIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002500330008-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 12, 1999
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: March 23, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORM
COUNTRY Colombia f 9enesaela
.SUBJECT Entry of Arnie Into Colombia
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1. Alfonso ^,eraaeho, a C,loc+biea who worked as chauffeur for Rom:ulo letanaourt, is
reported 'to be respr,iaible for the influx of Czech area into ^?olor-hia during
January 1949. He sated that the sang had been imported to Venezuela for the
use of the Acoion Dr'ooratioa party (Decrooritia Motion - AD), but that they
had been sent to Col =1 .a for storage because of the strict measures being
en?oroe?.l by the military government in Venezuela. The puns bore the stamp
":asks 5broJoOCa" w d eoll for 311 pesos in Colombia. One !r-9ghine gun of
the sans make was r unable for X00 poses.
2. Crew neribers of Col mbian aviation co i pwiea have been nurohasinr arms
outside the oountrs for sale in Cci onbiam. Company authorities hzva discovered
employees iaportin as in two instances, but the number of arms broupht into
Colombia in this nnner is considered nerligible.
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