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...VENEZUELA, Banker Enrique Dao was ransomed last week for $440,000. In a separate incident. Department Store Owner Jacobo Taurel paid $900,000 to a terrorist group for the release of his 13-year-old son León. Police later captured eight alleged kidnapers and recovered Taurel's money. Only 14 months ago, Taurel paid $150,000 to a different group of guerrillas in exchange for León's life...
Died. Colonel Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán, 57, far-leftist President of Guatemala, deposed in 1954 by a U.S.-sponsored exile invasion; by drowning after falling in his bathtub; in Mexico City. Known as "the Red Colonel," Arbenz was elected President in 1950 after the murder of his anti-Communist rival, Francisco Arana; once in office, Arbenz expropriated U.S. property, opened relations with Communist-bloc nations and generally established himself as a thorn in the U.S. side-so much so that in 1954 a CIA-supported force routed Arbenz's forces. The tactic was so successful that some observers...
...Dulles sometimes risked operations that he supervised with cheerful confidence. In 1953, the CIA helped to depose Iran's leftist Premier Mohammed Mossadegh, making way for the return of pro-Western Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi from exile in Rome. The next year, when the regime of Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán seemed increasingly proCommunist, the CIA stage-managed a civil war that ended in Arbenz's overthrow. CIA agents dug a tunnel from West to East Berlin that succeeded in intercepting Communist communications until it was discovered...
Though never a Communist himself, he was a strong supporter of Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán's Communist regime, which took power in 1950. As ambassador to El Salvador in 1954, he tried to thwart the U.S.-supported military coup that toppled Arbenz. The new government stripped Asturias of his citizenship, and sent him once again into exile. Last year, after the election of Moderate Leftist Julio César Méndez Montenegro, Asturias was invited back to his country, where he rejoined the foreign service...
...Hungarian going home for a visit so that he will take a short drive out of his way to check on the number of Russian troops in Szekes-fehervar. Or they may be arranging a revolution-as they did when Premier Mossadegh was deposed in 1953, or when Colonel Jacobo Arbenz was over thrown in Guatemala...