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...pulled alongside, and one of them suddenly opened up with a machine gun. "I instinctively hit the dirt," recalled Sgt. Major John R. Forster, who was wounded in the hand. Chief Petty Officer Harry Green caught a bullet in the spine. Sitting in the front seat, Colonel John D. Webber, 47, head of the mission and driver of the car, and Lieut. Commander Ernest A. Munro, 40, chief of the mission's naval section, took the full force of the fusillade and died almost instantly as the car came squealing to a halt. The four Americans were casualties...
...Webber and Munro were the victims of Webber's own success in Guatemala. When the tough career officer arrived in Guatemala 18 months ago, 200 Communist guerrillas were terrorizing the countryside. Webber immediately expanded counterinsurgency training within Guatemala's 5,000-man army, brought in U.S. Jeeps, trucks, communications equipment and helicopters to give the army more firepower and mobility, and breathed new life into the army's civic-action program...
...Minas in north eastern Guatemala. To aid in the drive, the army also hired and armed local bands of "civilian collaborators" licensed to kill peasants whom they considered guerrillas or "potential" guerrillas. There were those who doubted the wisdom of encouraging such measures in violence-prone Guatemala, but Webber was not among them. "That's the way this country is," he said. "The Communists are using everything they have, including terror. And it must...
...terrorists drove up to the home of a Guatemalan army colonel early last week and machine-gunned one of his guards. The next day a leftist lawyer was gunned down with his bodyguard, and a right-wing politician was shot in front of his home. A few hours later, Webber and Munro were killed, caught in the savage crossfire of Guatemalan politics...
...green murder car and, after a fierce gun battle, killed Communist Terrorist Leonard Castillo John son, 22, a member of the Castroite Rebel Armed Forces (FAR)-and the boyfriend of the murdered beauty queen. The next morning, the FAR issued a brief bulletin, claiming credit for the murders of Webber and Munro, and posthumously congratulating Castillo as the triggerman who had "brought to justice the Yanqui officers who were teaching tactics to the Guatemalan army for its war against the people...