GUATEMALAN WHO AIDED CIA NOW SEEKING HELP

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000400130043-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
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Approved For Release 2006!T0/i9 : QTA-RDI
OCT 15 1964
CA Now Seekin
g He'p'
uqte~~uW!an'ho Aided;
By .! JtJ'Ki ;MIAR O'LL;AKY
Latin America Writ-or of The star
gence Agency with training areas in Guatemala for the Bay;,
of Pigs invasion, is appealing to the Organization of American
States to help end the exile into which he has been cast by the
present military government of Guatemala.
'Alejos appeared yesterday before the Inter-American Coin.',
misswn 01 txuman liignty, 11 headed by Manuel Bianchi of
Chile, to ask -intercession on his
behalf with the government of
Col. Enrique Peralta Azurdia.
The wealthy 43-year-old
Guatemalan politician and land-
owner told reporters after the
OAS session that he-has been
living in exile in Miami since
shortly after the P,eralta coup
d'etat in March, 1963.
He said he was seized when
he tried to return'to Guatemala
last May and was held prisoner
for two days before being flown
to Nicaragua in a military
plane. Alejos said he believes
the Poralta government wanted
him out of the country because
he was one of the candidates
for the presidency in the No-
vember, 1963, election canceled
by the Peralta coup.
Alej:os'declared the junta that
overthrew the government of
Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes and
now rules without a constitution
is acting in an "iron-fisted and
arbitrary manner, persecuting
political adversaries and gross-
ly denying the Guatemalan
people their essential rights.'.'
He 'said the Guatemalans
must be . given their rights of
free speech, assembly, home
inviolability, petition and fair
trial if the nation is to.retuCd to
constitutional order.
revolution. Peralta has prom !
ised Guatemala a new constitu-i
tion by March 15 and elections'
six ,months after that.
Alejos declared it is a mis-
take to recognize any military' regime anywhere in the world.
There will never be any order'-
ho said, if' "every little man in
uniform" can disrupt a legal,
He said his large coffee plan
tation, "Helvetia," the training,
ground used by the anti-Castro'
Brigade 2506 before the Bay of
Pigs invasion, has been sold,
but he believed . anti-Castro
commando forces are using
other properties of his in. Gua-
temala for training.
Other anti-Castro Cubans' are
training on property . of the
.ruling Somoza family.. ,` . ;
Alejos said be. is now in the
construction business irk` Miami;:
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The United States
xended
recognition to,. the 'Poraita 'avef
?me a .few weeks usher: the
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