831.00/10–2347
The Acting Secretary of State to the Attorney General (Clark)
My Dear Mr. Attorney General: Further reference is made to letters from the Department of State to the Department of Justice dated July 28, 1947 and August 15, 1947,24 regarding investigations which were made of the activities of Karl John Eisenhardt and others in a reported plot to form a revolutionary expedition against the Venezuelan Government.
The Department of State requests that the Department of Justice, if it is possible to do so, continue to hold in abeyance prosecutions against … Venezuelan nationals involved in the cases.
The Department of State has no objection, however, to the prosecution of any persons who have violated Section 452 of Title 22 of the United States Code, involving the illegal exportation of arms and ammunition. In view of the fact that Venezuelan presidential and congressional elections are to take place on December 14, 1947 the Department requests that no action regarding these cases be taken prior to that time which might lead to publicity.25 …
Sincerely yours,
- Neither printed.↩
- The Acting Assistant to the Attorney General, in a letter of October 29, 1947, to the Secretary of State, indicated the difficulty of prosecuting some offenders and not others in the same plot (831.00/10–2947). In a letter to the Attorney General, March 23, 1948, the Secretary of State requested that charges be preferred against plotters of the overthrow of certain American republics’ governments, where United States law was violated and regardless of nationality (831.00/10–2347).↩