U.S. TROOPS AS GUARD
REFUGEES IN BOGOTA EXCHANGE OF SHOTS (10 a.m.) NEW YORK, April 14. An Argentine delegate, Senator Alberto Durand, said, on his return to Buenos Aires from Bogota yesterday, that American soldiers guarded the refugees from the Bogotan mobs and exchanged shots with the rioters. At the height of the revolution, Senator Durand left Bogota in a truck guarded by American soldiers armed with machine-guns and followed by another carrying American troops. “Before we reached the airport we had to ’throw ourselves on the truck floor while American soldiers exchanged volleys with the Communists who attacked us from a car,” said Senator Durand.
Officials of the United States State Department said they had no information that any American combat troops were in Bogota. There were American officers assigned to the embassy and the military mission, but it was impossible to believe that any American military men would have fired shots during the revolution.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22612, 15 April 1948, Page 5
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