[SANITIZED]WEEKLY SUMMARY JUNE 18, 1976 - 1976/06/18

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Argentina Declassification Project - The "Dirty War" (1976-83)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02987080
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• Document Page Count: 24
• Document Creation Date: April 3, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 12, 2019
• Publication Date: June 18, 1976

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Se�et 3.5(c)
Weekly Summary
CI WS 76-025
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June 18, 1976
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The WEEKLY SUMMARY, issuedy Fndey morning by ;the
Office of Current Intelligence eports and analyzes signifi-
cant developments of the week through noon on Thursday. it
frequently includes material coordinated with or prepared
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Research, the Office of Geographic and Cartographic
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18 Latin America: International Terrorist Group
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There is growing evidence that a front organization that
coordinates the activities of Latin American terrorist groups is
developing at least some capability for carrying out incidents
outside the hemisphere.
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Latin America: International Terrorist Group
by Stephen Schwab
Recently captured documents support
earlier speculation that Latin American
terrorists are joining forces to engage in
activities outside the hemisphere.
Shortly after the murder last month of
the Bolivian ambassador to France,
General Zenteno, leads developed by
Paris police indicated that some form of
international terrorism was at work.
Ballistics tests reportedly confirm that
the gun used to kill Zenteno was the same
weapon that wounded the Spanish
military attache in Paris last fall.
Moreover, the murder of Zenteno bears a
marked similarity to the assassination of
the Uruguayan military attache in Paris
in December, 1974.
Speculation about the activities of a
South American guerrilla organization
known as the Revolutionary Coordinating
Junta was also fueled by an advertisement
it placed in the May 9 issue of Le Monde
in Paris. Entitled "Latin America Fights
in Argentina," the manifesto is the
organization's first such open attack
abroad.
It focuses attention on the repressive
activities of the new Argentine govern-
ment and calls for a world-wide mobiliza-
tion to free Edgardo Enriquez, the
founder of the Chilean Movement of the
Revolutionary Left and a member of the
Junta's secretariat, who was arrested by
Argentine security forces on April 10.
This may be the beginning of an inter-
national propaganda effort to discredit
the military government�at least it
serves to arouse the sympathies of the
French left on this issue.
Information on the Coordinating Junta
is fragmentary. Some of it comes from
sources of unknown reliability, and some
from South American security services
that may exaggerate the importance of
available data for their own purposes.
Nevertheless, documents captured in
raids on guerrilla hideouts and arrests of
extremists in Paraguay, Chile, Argentina,
and Bolivia confirm that such an or-
ganization does exist.
The organization may have originated
during informal contacts between various
South American leftist movements as
early as 1968. Its formal existence was
declared in a joint communique in
February 1974 when representatives of
guerrilla groups in Bolivia, Uruguay,
Chile, and Argentina announced that they
were uniting under the leadership of
Roberto Santucho, the head of the
People's Revolutionary Army in Argen-
tina.
In March 1975 a Paraguayan extremist
organization reportedly joined the group,
and later that month a meeting was held
in Lisbon "to unify the Latin American
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revolutionary movements."
The Junta is now said to have represen-
tatives in several European countries, in-
cluding Portugal, Sweden, and France,
but available evidence indicates that its
headquarters is still in Argentina and that
most of its funds, and probably its
members, come from the People's
Revolutionary Army.
Until now the Junta has not taken
responsibility for any terrorist operations,
as has been the practice of individual
guerrilla organizations in South America.
This does not mean it has been inactive.
On the contrary, it would appear
from captured documents that the
organization takes its coordinating func-
tion seriously and exists for that purpose
and to provide logistic support to its
member groups. These functions were
strongly emphasized in the documents
captured by the Paraguayan government
late last year, in those uncovered by
Argentine security forces in a raid on one
of Santucho's hideouts this spring, and in
documents discovered in Bolivia in April.
Despite tha lack of hard data on assets
or numbers involved, it would appear that
the Junta has already achieved a status
and operational capability that exceeds
past efforts by Latin American rev-
olutionaries to form an intra-
hemisphere terrorist organization.
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