FROM:  C.O. SAN JUAN [SAN JUAN DE TELPANECA] 10/11/31

TO  :  AREA COMNDR OCOTAL PRIORITY

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REF YOUR 10111 THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION RECEIVED FROM TEODORO SILES COLON SANDINO AT PRESENT IN DEPT OF JINOTEGA WITH ALTAMIRANO [PEDRON ALTAMIRANO] INSPECTING CAMPS PERIOD SANDINOS CAMPAMENTO GENERAL IS EAST OF CHIPOTE KNOWN AS CANO DEL DIABLO PERIOD WE [HE] SILES ARRIVED IN CAMPAMENTA GENERAL EARLY PART OF SEPT WITH SALGADO PERIOD HE ONLY NOTICED TEN MEN PRESENT AT THE CAMPS AND SANDINO WAS PRESENT AT THE TIME AND WAS SEEN BY SILES COMMA APPEARED IN GOOD HEALTH COMMA FOLLOWING ARMS WERE SEEN BY SILES COLON TWO THOMPSONS COMMA TWO SPRINGFIELDS COMMA SIX CONCONS AND SANDINO HAS FORTY FIVE AUTOMATIC PISTOL PERIOD SALGADO SECOND TO SANDINO IS NOW IN CAMPAMENTO GENERAL WHILE SANDINO IS OUT WITH ALTIMIRANO PERIOD SALGADO GROUP CONSISTS OF FORTY COMMA TWENTY UNDER JUAN SANTOS MORALES TRYING TO STOP WORK ON THE ROAD BETWEEN OCOTAL AND EL SAUCE PERIOD MORALES LEFT CAMPAMENTO GENERAL WITH HIS GROUP LATTER PART OF SEPT PERIOD UMANZOR IN VICINITY OF ACHUAPA IS STILL SUFFERING FROM WOUNDS RECEIVED IN PALACAGUINA CONTACT PERIOD ALTIMIRANO IS IN JINOTEGA WITH SANDINO HIS GROUP CONSISTS OF SIXTY ARMED WITH TWO BARS AND TWO THOMPSONS THE REST ALL ARMED WITH RIFLES AND PISTOLS PERIOD ALTIMIRANO IS ARMED WITH TWO FORTY FIVE PISTOLS PERIOD ESTRADA HAS CHARGE OF IRIAS GROUP CONSISTING OF SIXTY ARMED WITH ONE MACHINE GUN TAKEN FROM PLANE THAT FELL AT ZOPOPILLAL COMMA ONE FORTY FIVE AUTOMATIC PISTOL AND VERY FEW RIFLES PERIOD COLINDRES SECOND TO UMANZOR IS IN CHARGE OF ORTEZ GROUP WHILE UMANZOR IS AT ACHUAPA PERIOD NOTHING MUCH KNOWN OF COLINDRES PERIOD ALTIMIRANO CAMPS ARE LOCATED IN VICINITY OF GARROBA CALONDRINAS AND JONQUIN TRINCADO PERIOD SANDINOS FORCES ARE DECREASING COMMA VERY LITTLE AMMUNITION CLAIMS NEVER SAW A MAN WITH MORE THAN FIFTEEN ROUNDS AMMUNITION PERIOD SANDINO PLANS TO ATTACK SAN JUAN COMMA QUILALI AND YALI BY JANUARY WITH SIX COLUMNS COMMA EACH COLUMN CONSISTING OF FROM FIFTEEN TO TWENTY FIVE MEN PERIOD SILES STATES THAT ALL HIS TIME WITH THE BANDITS HE WAS A PRISONER AND NEVER PARTICIPATED IN ANY AMBUSHES OR ATTACKS PERIOD MUNOZ 13311 OCT 31

TOR YCI 1452 EB DATE

M31.10.11

Transcribed by Pleet Initiative-funded Lebanon Valley College student-researcher Nicholas J. Quadrini.