JAMAICA: ARMS HEADED FOR COLOMBIAN INSURGENTS SEIZED

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Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 
06765983
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RIPPUB
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U
Document Page Count: 
4
Document Creation Date: 
March 8, 2023
Document Release Date: 
June 18, 2019
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Case Number: 
F-2017-01654
Publication Date: 
January 11, 1989
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Director of Central Intelligence Approved for Release: 2019/06/03 C06765983 National Intelligence Daily Wednesday 11 January 1989 OlTeit-- CPAS NID 89-008JX TCS 2708/89 11 January 1989 Approved for Release: 2019/06/03 C06765983 Approved for Release: 2019/06/03 C06765983 Warning Notice This Document Not To Be Reproduced Intelligence Sources or Methods Involved (WN) National Security Unauthorized Disclosure Information Subject to Criminal Sanctions Dissemination Control Abbreviations NOFORN (NF) Not releasable to foreign nationals NOCONTRACT (NC) Not releasable to contractors or contractor/consultants PROPIN (PR) Caution�proprietary Information involved ORCON (0C) Dissemination and extraction of information controlled by originator REL... FGI This information has been authorized for release to... Foreign government information WN WNINTEL�IntellIgence sources or methods involved Abbreviations for compartmented codewords are: M - MORAY S - SPOKE U - UMBRA R - RUFF Z - ZARF G - GAMMA The National Intelligence Daily is prepared in the Central Intelligence Agency In cooperation with the other US foreign intelligence organizations. This page is Confidential. Approved for Release: 2019/06/03 C06765983 Approved for Release: 2019/06/03 C06765983_ . 0 (b)(3) Contents Jamaica: Arms Headed for Colombian Insurgents Seized 7 ---"Ttirreeepet_ TCS 2708/89 11 January 1989 NR Record NR Record (b)(3) Approved for Release: 2019/06/03 C06765983 Approved for Release: 2019/06/03 C06765983 �Tairseefet_ (b)(3) JAMAICA: Arms Headed for Colombian Insurgents Seized Jamaican authorities last week seized a shipment of 1,000 automatic rifles, 250 machineguns, and 10 mortars after learning that the Colombian end-user certificate for the arms was forged. The weapons arrived from Portugal on the Copacabana, a Panamanian ship probably owned by a British arms dealer, and were about to be flown to Colombia. Comment: The incident suggests that the FARC, which earns millions of dollars by taxing or controlling illicit drug production in parts of Colombia, has learned that it can get larger quantities of well-made military ordnance on the international gray arms market than it can locally within Colombia 7 -TairSecret. TCS 2708/89 11 January 1989 NR Record (b)(3) (b)(1) (b)(3) Approved for Release: 2019/06/03 C06765983