WEEKLY SITUATION REPORT ON INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MAY 1975[SANITIZED] - 1975/05/06

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• Collection: Argentina Declassification Project - The "Dirty War" (1976-83)
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• Publication Date: May 6, 1975

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ERP
ERP to Form Confederation of Terrorist Groups and Re-emphasize
Urban Operations
In late April
the ERP had recently decided
to form a loose confederation with other Argentine terrorist
groups in order to coordinate terrorist operations more effi-
ciently and to develop a common strategy. This group, to be
called the National Liberation Front (FLN), will be military,
not political in nature, and each supporting organization will
maintain its own identity and political orientation. The Che
Guevara Faction of the Armed Liberation Forces (FAL) has al-
ready agreed to join the front, and the ERP is currently dis-
cussing the matter with other FAL factions and with several
small Trotskyist groups.
The probable reason for this move by the ERP is to
strengthen the organization's operational capabilities in urban
areas. Since 1974 guerrilla warfare, particularly in Tucuman
province, has been the prime ERP concern. This has caused a
significant deterioration of ERP political strength and capa-
bilities in the cities, particularly in Buenos Aires. ERP has
further been weakened by a successful police raid against its
regional headquarters in Buenos Aires in mid-March. As a re-
sult of the raid Argentine authorities confiscated membership
lists, information on safe site locations, and other important
ERP internal, documents. ERP also lost a national printing
and distribution mechanism in a police raid in late January.
It does not seem likely that the Montoneros will join the
FLN at the present time because of basic differences in philos-
ophy between the ERP and the Montoneros. Recently a leader of
the Workers' Revolutionary Party (PRT), the political umbrella
of the ERP, was highly critical of the Montoneros, stating that
they had become an instrument of nationalistic, petit bourgeois
interests and were in effect an antirevolutionary force in
Argentina. He said the Montoneros were misusing and misunder-
standing the concept of revolutionary violence by using it as a
defense mechanism rather than an instrument to attain political
objectives, and that this policy was clearly self-defeating.
Further, the PRT/ERP views the indiscriminate use of violence
as politically counterproductive.
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ERP's re-emphasis on urban terrorism does not bode well
for foreign interests in Argentina. It is quite possible that
ERP will try some sort of terrorist spectacular in order to
bolster its sagging revolutionary credentials. On I May Argen-
tine authorities had uncovered a detailed
surveillance report on the movements of the U.S. agricultural
attache, which indicates advanced operational planning to kid-
nap him. The report was found in an automobile used in a 26
April ERP attempt to assassinate a Federal Police captain in
Buenos Aires Province. The agricultural attache has since
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I. Terrorist Threats and Plans:
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Target: U.S. OFFICIAL ** The U.S. Agricultural Attache
in Buenos Aires apparently has
Place: Argentina, been the target of an ERP kid-
Buenos Aires nap plot, according to the
U.S. Embassy. In late April
Date: Current the Argentine police found
ERP documents detailing the at-
tache's travel pattern. The
attache was scheduled to de-
part Buenos Aires 3 May for a
new assignment in Montevideo.
As the ERP has friendly rela-
tions with Uruguayan terror-
ists, the attache will continue
to take precautions.
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I. Terrorist Threats and Plans:
Western Hemisphere, Including the United States
Target: U.S. DEFENSE
ATTACHE
Place: Argentina,
Buenos Aires
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The U.S. Defense Attache has
been receiving telephone
threats from an anonymous
caller, according to the U.S.
Embassy in Buenos Aires.
The security watch committee
will meet to assess these
threats. In late March there
were reports of the possible
surveillance of the Defense
Attache.
Target: U.S. OFFICIAL The U.S. Agricultural Attache
in Buenos Aires apparently was
Place: Argentina, the target of an ERP kidnap
Buenos Aires plot. He was reassigned to
Montevideo but the Department
Date: Current of Agriculture has now decided
to have him return to the U.S.
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The Fourth Fourth International and Argentine Terrorism
The involvement in Argentine terrorism by the Trotskyist
Fourth International (FI) based in Paris may have been greater
and more direct than previously thought. During the second
week in May, Argentine federal police raided a number of safe
sites belonging to the Revolutionary Communist League (LCR),
a group mainly composed of members of the old Red Faction of
the People's Revolutionary Army (ERP). As a result of the
raids, the police arrested most of the members of the LCR Sec-
retariat, uncovered caches containing over 200 weapons and
100,000 rounds of ammunition as well as a large quantity of
documents.
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the police have established that the LCR gave
$50,000 to the Chilean Movement of the Revolutionary Left
(MIR) and $50,000 to the FI in Paris, through the FI represent-
ative in Argentina. The money came from the kidnapping of
Aaron Beilinson, an engineer in La Plata. One of the Secre-
tariat members confessed to the police that he was a Brazilian
citizen (as were several of the other Secretariat members), a
former member of the French Communist League, and had worked
in the Latin American Commission of the FI. He then travelled
to Argentina, joined the ERP and helped to form the Red Fac-
tion of the ERP when it split off from the majority ERP faction
in mid-1973.
The Argentine government plans to use the information
garnered in the raids to prove that foreign mercenaries are
fighting in Argentina and that the FI is involved in internal
Argentine matters. The government will also attempt to link
the LCR with the ERP and Robert Santucho in an effort to dis-
credit that organization. The government also plans to
release official court documents so that the FI leadership
will know that the captured LCR members talked in detail
during their interrogations, thus hoping to discourage the FI
from rebuilding the LCR. (Comment: Although the political
wing of the ERP, the Worker's Revolutionary Party (PRT), is
basically Trotskyist and has been a member of the FI, it is
believed that neither the ERP nor the PRT were ever under the
direct control of the FI.)
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I. Terrorist Threats and Plans:
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Target: U.S. DEFENSE The U.S. Defense Attache has
ATTACHE been receiving telephone
threats from an anonymous
Place: Argentina, caller. In late March there
Buenos Aires were reports of the possible
surveillance of the Defense
Date: Current Attache. Increased security
measures are being employed,
including the use of a body-
guard, until the Attache leaves
in earl Ju
Target: U.S. OFFICIAL
Place: Argentina,
Buenos Aires
Date: Current
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An unidentified individual
telephoning the U.S. Com-
mercial Attache advised the
Attache's secretary that an
important official would be
kidnapped on 12, 13, or 14
May at his home, according
to an Embassy report. The
address the caller gave for
the kidnapping is in the
block in which the Embassy
has its temporary living
quarters. The two residents
are moving out of these
quarters.
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** Indicates a new threat reported for the first time.
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I. Terrorist Terrorist Threats and Plans:
Western Hemisphere, Including the United States
Target: U.S. DEFENSE
ATTACHE
Place: Argentina,
Buenos Aires
Date: Current
Target: U.S. OFFICIAL
Place: Argentina,
Buenos Aires
Date: Current
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The U.S. Defense Attache has
been receiving telephone
threats from an anonymous
caller. In late March there
were reports of the possible
surveillance of the Defense
Attache. Increased security
measures are being employed,
including the use of a body-
guard, until the Attache leaves
in early July.
An unidentified individual
telephoning the U.S. Com-
mercial Attache advised the
Attache's secretary that an
important official would be
kidnapped on 12, 13, or 14
May at his home. Although
the dates have passed, this
may still be a viable threat
given the situation in Argen-
tina.
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