CZECH ADVISER ON AGRICULTURE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00423R000700160001-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 11, 1999
• Sequence Number: 1
• Content Type: REPORT

? Approved ForrReIegose 1999/0
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COUNTRY Venezuela/Guatemala
SUBJECT Czech Adviser on Agriculture
PLACE ACQUIRED
DATE ACQUIRED
DATE OF INFORMATION
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1. In June 1953 during the course of a conversation with our export manager
concerning Guatemala, he mentioned that in 1950 a Czech named Kubecs was
acting as an adviser to the Ministry of Agriculture in Guatemala.
2. The export manager stated that he had formerly met Kubecs whose first name
he believes to be "Jan", in Venezuela in 1948 when Kubecs was serving as a
consultant to the Agricultural Department of the government of Venezuela.
3. Our export manager informed me that Kubecs is an expert on cattle and wrote
an excellent brochure on tick eradication. Inasmuch as our representative
was developing markets for insecticides we produce he had contacts with Kubecs
on a number of occasions in both Guatemala and Venezuela. He stated that
Kubecs was always extremely reserved and never made any remarks concerning
his background. Kubecs speaks perfect Spanish but backed away from discussions
in German when our representative tried him out in that language.
4. While our man stated he had no special reason for suspecting Kubecs, hes in-
clined to believe that Kubecs might possibly be a Communist agent. Hia,'pres-
ence in Guatemala in view of the current regime there appears sigt 'ica?t9*t to
our representative as he says the government has many foreign "asett on
the payroll who are actually Communist agents. C1.) r.
5. Our man has traveled throughout the Latin American area for many ye and has
spent considerable time in Guatemala. He mentioned that he knew Pident
Arbenz personally when Arbenz was a minor army officer engaged in tli op dusting
activities in rural areas of Guatemala. At that time Arbenz and a Colonel
iat Sere extremely close personal friends. Our representative had not heard
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information concerning him in Guatemala. (~PRo646L'' Cd"aRJ& WF)'44,vN, ric- MA hcnc.J
6. Our representative says that Arbenz is a man of very limited talents, and he
is sure that Arbenz is strictly a front. He says that Arbenz is extremely
nervous and has all of the characteristics of an habitual user of narcotics.
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