Lowy) DIRECTORATE OF OPERATIONS Approved for Release: 2018/10/02 C00513931 Intelligence Information Cable WARNING NOTICE � ROUTINE IN 887381 PAGE 1 OF 5 PAGES SENSITIVE INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHODS INVOLVED 3.5(c) Classified by Recorded Reporting Officer. Exempt from General Declassification Schedule of E.O. 11652 Exemption Category se,(1)4 3.5(c) THIS IS AN INFORMATION REPORT, NOT FINALLY EVALUATED INTELLIGENCE SEEIZEr COUNTRY: ARGENTINA/CHILE 3.5(c) CITE DMT 14 April 1976 SUBJECT: RAID BY THE ARGENTINE FEDERAL POLICE OF A TOP-LEVEL CONFERENCE OF THE REVOLUTIONARY COORDINATING JUNTA 3.3(b)(1) Pre CZ g. 11401 13.3(b)(1) " 1.46m ra Olt 2 CmZ) m " timois g . C:D 3 1.. ON 29 MARCH 1976 THE FEDERAL POLICE LED A RAID ON AN ESTATE IN MORENO, BUENOS AIRES PROVINCE. WHERE A TOP-LEVEL CONFERENCE OF THE REVOLUTIONARY COORDINATING JUNTA CJCR) WAS IN PROGRESS. THE CONFERENCE WAS BEING PRESIDED OVER BY THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE PEOPLE'S REVOLUTIONARY ARMY 5 5 4 4. 3 2 2 1 cictssilication) dissern controls Approved for Release: 2018/10/02 C00513931 pproved for Release: 2018/10/02 C00513931 SENSITIVE INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHODS INVOLVED 3.5(c) IN 8 8 7 3 8 I PAGE 2 OF 5 PAGES FURTHER DISSEMINATION AND USE OF THIS INFORMATION SUBJECT TO CONTROLS STATED AT BEGINNING AND END OF REPORT (classification) (dissem controls) (ERP), ALONG WITH THE REVOLUTIONARY WORKERS PARTY (PRT), WHICH IS THE POLITICAL ARA OF THE ERP. INDIVIDUALS, WHO HAVE NOT BEEN IDENTIFIED, WERE ALSO IN ATTENDANCE FROM THE CHILEAN MOVEMENT OF THE REVOLUTIONARY LEFT (MIR), THE URUGUAYAN NATIONAL LIBERATION MOVEMENT/TUPAMAROS AND THE- , BOLIVIAN REVOLUTIONARY WORKERS PARTY, THE POLITICAL ARM OF THE ARMY OF NATIONAL LIBRATION (ELN). 2. IN THE COURSE OF THE RAID THERE WAS A SHOOTOUT# DURING WHICH TIME SEVERAL OF THE PARTICIPANTS OF THE JcR MEETING ESCAPED, INCLUDING MARIO ROBERTOSANTUCH 0, ALIASES HPOBI" AND "cARLos," WHO IS BOTH COMMANDER OF THE ERP AND SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE PRT, SOME OF THE ERP/PRT MEMBERS PRESENT, HOWEVER D WERE TAKEN PRISONER AND NUMEROUS DOCUMENTS WERE C0N7ISCATED0 SEVEN 70 ELEVEN 017 THE PARTICIPANTS WERE tILED DURING THE sHOOTOuTc AND THE AUTHORITIES 0,RE PRESENTLV 2N THE ,,,,CECE- OF sTTEKPTING TO DETERMINE THEIR IDENTITIES, 3. 3.3(b)(1) CONFERENCE HAD 30- O'R 31 MARCH 4 3 . 2 1 THE JCR BEGUN 27 MARCH AND WAS SCHEDULED TO END ON 1976. A PRINCIPAL TOPIC OF DISCUSSION WAS (classificaticm) (discern controls) Approved for Release: 2018/10/02 C00513931 3.5(c) NN, , 1.0 � SEICOF (classification) (dissent controls) Approved for Release: 2018/10/02 C00513931 INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHODS INVOLVED IN 8 8 7 3 8 1 PAGE 3 OF 5 PAGES 3.5(c) FURTHER DISSEMINATION AND USE OF THIS INFORMATION SUBJECT TO CONTROLS STATED AT BEGINNING AND END OF REPORT 3 2 1 THE STRATEGY THE ERP/PRT SHOULD ADOPT IN THE FACE OF THE NEW MILITARY GOVERNMENT IN ARGENTINA, PARTICULARLY WITH RESPECT To FUTURE ACTIVITIES THE ERP/PRT SHOULD PURSUE WITHIN THE LABOR SECTOR.LIlIllil COMMENTI THERE IS NO INFORMATION AT THIS TIME AS TO WHAT SPECIFICALLY MAY HAVE BEEN DECIDED, IF ANYTHING, AS A RESULT OF THE DISCUSSIONS WHICH HAD BEEN TAKING PLACE DURING THE JcR CONFERENCE SESSIONS.) 4. ONE oF THE DOCUMENTS CAPTURED WAS A PRESENTATION PAPER OF THE CHILEAN MIR REPRESENTATIVE. FOCUSES ON THE IMPORTANCE OF LEARNING FROM PAST EXPERIENCES AND MISTAKES OF THE VARIOUS JCR MEMBER ORGANilAtIONS, IN THIS REGARD, THE MIR ADMITS THAT IT ERRED IN OVER-ANTICIPATING A STRONG POPULAR RESISTANCE TO THE MILITARY REGIME FOLLOWING THE OVERTHROW OF PRESIDENT SALVADORALLENDE, THE MIR ALSO CONFESSES TO UNDER-EVALUATING THE WEAKNESSES WITHIN ITS OWN oRGANIZATION WHICH HAVE BEEN REVEALED EACH TIME THE MIR HAS TRIED TO TAKE THE INITIATIVE AGAINST THE MILITARY GOVERNMENT IN THE POLITICAL AND MILITARY SPHERE. IN THE PROCESS OF SELF-ANALYSIS. THE MIR HAS CONCLUDED THAT IN THE (class(fication) (dissem controb) 3.3(b)(1) Anoroved for Release: 2018/10/02 C00513931 Approved for Release: 2018/10/02 C00513931 SENSITIVE INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHODS INVoLvtu IN 887381 3.5(c) PAGE 4 OF 5 PAGES FURTHER DISSEMINATION AND USE OF THIS INFORMATION SUBJECT TO CONTROLS STATED AT BEGINNING AND END OF REPORT (classification) (dissem controls) PAST IT H\S PLACED TOO MUCH EMPHASIS ON THE ARMED STRUGGLE AND CLANDESTINE ACTIVITY, IGNORING FOR THE MOST PART LEGAL AND SEmI-LEGAL FORMS FOR ACHIEVING ITS OBJECTIVES, THE DOCUMENT STATES THAT A MORE INTENSIVE EFFORT BY THE MIR TO WORK THROUGH LEGAL AND SEMI-LEGAL STRUCTURES HAS ALREADY BEGUN, TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE REFORMIST TENDENCIES OF THE WORKING CLASS, AND THAT PROGRESS CAN BE NOTED, PARTICULARLY WITHIN THE LAST FEW MONTHS, THE DOCUMENT SENDS GREETINGS FROM THE NEW SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE MIR, WHO IT IS NOTED WAS RECENTLY NAMED. 5. AMI NG OTHER ERP/PRT PEOPLE. IN ADDITION TO MARIO SANrucHO, WHO ESCAPED DURING THE RAID WERE DOMINGO M E N A, ALIAS "GR:NGO") JUAN MANUELCARRIEO, ALIASES "CAPITAL FR44c/SCO, AND "EL FLACO"; JUANMANGINI, ALIAS "CAPITAL PEPE," WH( HAS BEEN THE ERP G.2 (INTELLIGENCE) CHIEF IN TUcumAN: rARTINSTREGER; AND "NESTOR._" comm0:3.(b)(1) ADDITIONAL ERP/PRT MEMBERS WHO ESCAPED WERE LILIANA DELFINO DEoRT0LANI, BENITO JORGE URT.EAGAAND MARTIN SALVADORFALCO N. ERP 3 2 1 � SECRET (classification) (dissem controls) 3.3(b)(1) Approved for Release: 2018/10/02 C00513931 � 3413 Approved for Release: 2018/10/02 C00513931 WARNING NOTICE SENSITIVE INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHODS INVOLVED 867351 PAGE OF PAGES 5 5 FURTHER DISSEMINATION AND USE OF THIL-: INFORMATION SUBJECT TO CONTROLS STATED AT BEGINNING AND END OF REPORT (classification) (dtssem controls) 3.5(c) 4 3 2 1 MEMBERS wHo WERE CAPTURED INCLUDED JUAN D E VESOt JOSE CARLOS F ERREYRA, ALIAS "PEPEni RODOLFO ORTIZ; ALIAS "ROF4 INESEARAGO 2 AO ALIAS "NEGRITA"; FRANCISCOGOMES; JUAN CARL0SORTEGA FERNANDEZ; JAIMEMEJIA DEvIv0; MARIA ISABELGALLEGOS MORALES; HECTOR OSVALDO VILLAREAL; JUAN DOMING0mARGuEZ G ONEALEE:AND SANTIAGO ALBERT0PAR0D Is ONE OF THE INDIVIDUALS KILLED WAS RUPERTOMENDEZ.) 3.3(b)(1) 3.3(b)(1)3.5(c) 3.5(c) REPORT CLASS NOTICE�SENSITIVE INTELLIGEN;E SOURCES AND METHODS INVOLVED (classification) (dissem controls) 5 4 3 2 1 Approved for Release: 2018/10/02 C00513931

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