UNSUCCESSFUL PLOTTING OF MAJOR ROBERTO FLORES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005000230007-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 25, 1999
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: June 8, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY 1,.n. 6alvador/ Iondur?ae/Guatenala DATE DISTR. 3 3C
SUBJECT Unsuccessful. Plotting of Major Roberto Flores
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l, The initial moves made by tiojor Roberto 1 ores in his anti-Osorlo plot havo
proved far from successful4 Antonio Yanez, the eru.ssary sent by .?lores to
Honduras on a mission to acquire money and support, returned to Li Salvador
with the information that nothing tangible in the way of assistance was to
be expected from that areao Yanez reported that the Salvadoran exiles were
powerless, and that Honduran authorities were not disposed to attempt to
alter the status-'quo in k Salvador.
with his efforts to rid Guatemala of Corn nunism and considered the S alvidoran
situation of secondary importance.
1Aguilar to .1l Salvador to explain to P.iajor Korea the Honduran position with
respect to its hands-off policy0 President Galvez is said to feel that
Liajor Osorlo is going to oppose Coxunist i.nfl.l.tration into the Salvadoran
goverrrient, and therefore it viould be in the best interest of Honduras to
support the Osorio regime.
According to source, Dr0 Fernando do Sandoval in Guatem la was approached
in behalf of Flores by one Jose Vaned IHoseve_r, Dr do Sandoval displayed
no interest in the Flores proposition and stated that he was preoccupied
20 During the first week in 1L-ay, Honduran President Galvez sent one Francisco
4o Dr. Damian Rosales y Rosales, * who offered his help to I?l.ores in any move
against Osorio, has encountered a feeling of indifference on the part of
person., he had hoped would contrilnite money and support to the Flores piano
Apparently the majority of persons approached by Dre Rosales y Rosales havo
indicated their belief that Osorio and the Assembly should be afforded an
opportunity to govern for a reasonable period before any counteraction is
given serious considerati.ono
This document is hereby regraded to
CONFIDENTIAL in accordance with the
letter of 16 October 1978 from the
Director of Central Intelligence to the
Archivist of the United States.
Next Review Date: 2008
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