816.00/1238a: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Guatemala ( Long )6

201. You are requested to discuss the subject matter of the Department’s preceding telegram7 with your military, naval and legal attachés, if available, and to request them very discreetly to note whether there is any movement of arms or forces which indicate any intention of interfering in any way in the Salvadoran revolutionary disturbance.

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Please report to the Department any significant information pertaining to the above.8

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  1. Repeated as telegrams Nos. 156 to Nicaragua and 87 to Honduras.
  2. Telegram No. 200, supra.
  3. Replies from Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Honduras (telegrams Nos. 217, 215, and 102 of April 4, respectively), reported no indications of interference; telegrams not printed.