U.S. Forewarned Of Riots In Colombo
Received Friday, 8.50 p.m. WASH1NGTON, April 16. The U.S. State Department was fully informcd of the possibility of violence during the Ban-Americaii Conference at Bogota, Rear-Admiral lt. il. Hilton koetter, liead of the United States Central Intelligeace Agency, told the special investigating committee. Re also testified that the murder of Dr. .Jorge Gftitan was purely a 4personai reprisal. " Admiral Hillenkoetter read despatches 'from intelligeace men in Oolombia reporting Communist plans to cause trouble at the conference. These were relayed to the State Department. Admiral lliilenkoetter said the assassin's name was Jose Sierra and he was a nephew of a murdered Colombia army oliicer, Dr. Gaitan was counsel for the man who killed his uncle and gained acquittal for liis client shortly before noon on April 9. Sierra then niurdered Dr, Gaitan as a -personai reprisal, touching olf the revolt. Admiral Hillenkoetter said one inteiligence message said,. a Communistinspired agitator would attempt to humiliate Mr. Marshall and other meinbers of the American delogation by "a manifestation and possible personal molestation, "
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Chronicle (Levin), 17 April 1948, Page 5
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