SITUATION REPORT AS OF 1100 HOURS LOCAL TIME

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06769266
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: March 9, 2023
• Document Release Date: September 3, 2020
• Case Number: F-2017-02018
• Publication Date: July 30, 1990

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,A//NF) SUBJ: SITUATION REPORT AS OF 1100 HOURS LOCAL
TIME
Identifiers:
Messaging System: 90 0600026
Document Number:
Ingestion ID: 36229161
GUIDE: guide://1012/1gx3w6
Dates:
Date Acquired: approximated undefined 30-Jul-1990
Date Published: 30-Jul-1990 09:36:00
Date Received: 30-Jul-1990 10:36:28
Coverage:
CIA Country Code: LBR
Region: AFRICA, LIBERIA
Publisher:
Agency Acronym: CIA
Office Name: NCS
Warnings. /NF) CENTRAL
INTELLIGENCE AGENCY INFORMATION REPORT, NOT FINALLY EVALUATED
INTELLIGENCE
(U) CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
(U) INFORMATION REPORT, NOT FINALLY EVALUATED INTELLIGENCE. REPORT CLASS S
(U) REPORT CLASS-S-E-C�R-E--T---WARNING
INVOLVED-
DIST: 30 JULY 1990
DECL: BY RECORDED
REPORTING OFFICER. ALL PORTIONS CARRY CLASSIFICATION AND CONTROLS OF
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joVICIF) 1. TENSION IN MONROVIA IS EXTREMELY HIGH. NERVOUS ARMED FORCES OF
LIBERIA (AFL) SOLDIERS WENT ON A RAMPAGE AND ATTACKED REFUGEES AT THE ST.
PETER'S LUTHERAN CHURCH IN SINKOR (06-18N, 10-48W) LAST NIGHT. AN ESTIMATED
1,200 DISPLACED PERSONS WERE AT THE LUTHERAN CENTER WHEN AFL SOLDIERS
ENTERED. AFL SOLDIERS REPORTEDLY FIRED INDISCRIMINATELY, SPRAYING
REFUGEES WITH BULLETS. EARLY REPORTING INDICATES ANYWHERE FROM 80 TO 200
INDIVIDUALS WERE KILLED, 42 WOUNDED, AND 5 BABIES WERE FOUND UNATTENDED
AT THE LUTHERAN CHURCH THIS MORNING. THE REFUGEE CENTER AT THE NEARBY
METHODIST CHURCH WAS NOT ATTACKED.
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NF) 2. BETWEEN 600 AND 1000 PEOPLE FROM THE TWO CHURCHES REPORTEDLY
SWARMED ONTO THE COMPOUND OF THE UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (USAID) IN SINKOR BY THE MORNING OF 30 JULY. AN
EXPATRIATE ON THE COMPOUND REPORTED THERE WERE 14 WOUNDED IN NEED OF
MEDICAL ASSISTANCE. THIS SAME INDIVIDUAL ALSO REPORTED THAT AFL SOLDIERS IN
TWO TAXIS HAD PARKED OUTSIDE THE USAID COMPOUND AT 0955 HOURS THIS
MORNING. THERE WFRF Nn AnnmnNAI DETAILS AVAILABLE ON THE SITUATION AS OF
1100 HOURS.
ft8i/NF) 3. IN ANOTHER RELATED INCIDENT, AFL SOLDIERS SHOT THE LIBERIAN
COMPANION OF AN AMERICAN MISSIONARY STAYING AT A USAID HOUSE IN THE SINKOR
(06-18N, 1048W)-CONGOTOWN (06-16N, 10-44W) AREA LAST NIGHT. THE MISSIONARY
WAS NOT INJURED.
//NF) 4. THE BATTLE FOR MONROVIA CONTINUED ON THE NIGHT OF 29 JULY. SEVERAL
ROUNDS, PROBABLY 122MM ROCKETS, IMPACTED IN THE VICINITY OF THE BARCLAY
TRAINING CENTER (BTC) (06-18N, 10-48W). NO INFORMATION ON DAMAGE TO THE AREA
IS AVAILABLE. THE ROUNDS PROBABLY WERE FIRED BY CHARLES ((TAYLOR))'S
NATIONAL PATRIOTIC FRONT OF LIBERIA (NPFL) FORCES FROM A POSITION EAST OF
SINKOR, POSSIBLY PAYNESVILLE. THEIR TRAJECTORY CARRIED THEM OVER THE
EXECUTIVE MANSION. IN OTHER ACTION LAST NIGHT, NPFL FORCES REPORTEDLY
FIRED APPROXIMATELY 100 HIGH EXPLOSIVE ROUNDS OF AN UNKNOWN TYPE FROM
PAYNESVILLE (06-17N, 10-41W) IN THE DIRECTION OF ELWA JUNCTION (06-15N, 10-42W).
AFL FORCES ALSO FIRED ROCKETS FROM TH AL (06-14N, 10-40W) AREA
TOWARDS NPFL POSITIONS IN PAYNESVILLE. COMMENT: IT HAS BEEN
CONFIRMED THAT THE NPFL AND AFL BOTH H V NCTIONAL BM-21 ROCKET
LAUNCHERS. IT IS ALSO LIKELY THE PRINCE JOHNSON REBEL FACTION CAPTURED OE
FROM THE AFL ON ABOUT 24 JULY.)
/NF) 5. MEDICAL OFFICIALS AT CATHOLIC HOSPITAL IN CONGOTOWN REPORTED
TREATING MANY AFL CASUALTIES THIS MORNING. MORALE AND DISCIPLINE OF THE AFL
SOLDIERS WAS REPORTED NOT TO BE GOOD.
AB7/NF) 6. AN INTENSE FIREFIRE OCCURRED NEAR THE AMERICAN EMBASSY ON MAMBA
POINT AT MID-MORNING. HEAVY MACHINE GUN FIRE AND AUTOMATIC WEAPONS WERE
HEARD. PRINCE JOHNSON'S INDEPENDENT NATIONAL PATRIOTIC FRONT OF LIBERIA
(INPFL) FORCES CONTINUE TO ADVANCE ON MONROVIA BUT WERE REPORTED TO BE
ENCOUNTERING RESISTANCE FROM POCKETS OF AFL SOLDIERS THROUGHOUT THE
DOWNTOWN AREA. AT THE MOMENT THE U.S. EMBASSY APPEARS TO BE SITUATED IN A
"FREE ZONE", I.E., IN AN AREA THAT IS NOT CONTROLLED BY THE AFL OR THE INPFL.
LARGE NUMBERS OF REFUGEES WERE REPORTED TO HAVE DEPARTED THE U.S.
EMBASSY GREYSTONE COMPOUND FOR THE SAFETY OF INPFL HELD BUSHROD ISLAND
(06-21N, 10-47W) THIS MORNING. STORES IN DOWNTOWN MONROVIA REMAINED
CLOSED. THERE WAS NO TELEPHONE SERVICE, PUBLIC WATER, OR ELECTRICITY.
Collection: CC
Creator:
Agency Acronym: CIA
Office Name: NCS
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