By Me NARI Date 24 181 which the Sindical was fomenting. That this latter statement was correct seems proven by information which has just been furnished by Mr. John Stein, sub IIanager in Costa Rica of the United Fruit Company, He advises me that when the Spanish deportee Manuel Gutierrez referred to above was preparing to leave Costa Rica, he sent a telegram to a woman in Guatemala named Izaguirre.
The Truit Company officials and Guatemalan police thus placed on their guard, have since intercepted several communications between these two, from which it appeared (on March 23å last)
Mthat Gutierrez is planning to reach Venezuela where he apparently has other colleagues who are carrying out similar agitation in the oil section of that country. Gutierrez also has a duban friend here with whom he maintains correspondence through the woman Izaguirre, and funds have apparently been sent to the woman through Cuban friends located in Colombia.
Gutierrez is said to have stated to friends in Guatemala that he would likely have to go through Colombia en route to Venezuela, and the United Fruit Company has therefore posted its officials in the Colombia Division in order to prevent, if possible, the disembarcation of the agitators at any of the Colombian ports.
Copies of this despatch are being furnished to the Legations in Panamá, Bogotá and Caracas.
Respectfully yours, Jehartu berhard CHARLES EBERHARDT