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A Bed on | <a | Cy Salvador, May 10, 1947 Revort No. 15258 aT ATTACK OW LATIN-AME (ICA) COMMUNISTS BY MADRID PAPER Followin;. is data confidentially supplied by a reporter with a good record of eredibility: Tne followins, article, which appears to have originated with a Madrid newspane “arriba,” has been widely reorinted in Central America end has attracted considerat interest and attention: “Modrid, April 1947: "The North Americrn senator, Mr. Vandenberz, has recendly received a deluge of letters denouncing Communist activities in Central America and the Antilles, "In Cuba, there has been discovered e dan zerous Comintern center, in Haiti several Commanist ascents have been held, in Nicaragua, durine the recent elections, activities of Bolshevique (sic) origin were noted, and Mexico continues as one of Stalin's principal points of support. “In Mexico, the Comnunists even took advantage of President Truman's recent visit to that country to menifest their opposition towards the United States. Ther has also been news regardinz mysterious aras shipments in southern Mexico, in Briti Honduras and in other points in Gentrel Anerice, There have been unmistakable voauunist disturbances in Trinidad and in other British islands in the Caribbean, "All this indicates once more thet "Moscow points towards Panama and those lan wnich are the weakest point in our belt," as writes one of the most important anerican newspaper writers in pugilistic lanzuage, “ Concrete denumciations have been made recently by the ex~President of Guaten Cenerak’ Ponce, declarine from his exile in Mexico that there exists a vast Con- munist plen to treke over Central America, in which the present. Gonabniet covernnent of Guatemala will play an important role, He points to the récent ‘discovereies of contraband arms as part of the Moscow plot to overthrow the govérnmente of Honduras Hl Salvador, Nicarasua and Costa Rica, - "Even thouch t.e article in question, issued by the United Press, did not expressly say s0, we know that General Ponce accuses the Guatemalan anbassador in ‘Nashineton, GarciayGranados, of beinz the: ‘representative of the Krealin in all v~hese@ actions, } ; a "Thies accusation fogs not surprise us, as Garcia Granados is an intimate frien of, firal and Alvarez del’ Vayo. At Lake Success he acted as intermediary between them and the Soviet delegation, takin- pre-eminence even over-Lange and: Nanuileki in the attacks on Spain, These details take on importance and confirm to a certrin extent General Ponce's accusations, "In 1935, when we placed ourselves wider the leadership of Franco to revive th rue Spain, the Presidents of Guatemala and El Salvador, General Ubico end General 64 -/000- 0-23