SITUATION REPORT AS OF 1100 HOURS LOCAL TIME

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06769333
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: March 9, 2023
• Document Release Date: September 3, 2020
• Case Number: F-2017-02018
• Publication Date: July 20, 1990

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//NF) SUBJ: SITUATION REPORT AS OF 1100 HOURS LOCAL
TIME
Identifiers:
Messaging System: 90 0488637
Document Number:
Ingestion ID: 33977221
GUIDE: guide://1012/102c6v
Dates:
Date Acquired: approximated undefined 20-Jul-1990
Date Published: 20-Jul-1990 09:20:00
Date Received: 20-Jul-1990 10:19:34
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
�E-G-R-E-T=-WN I NTEL- DIST: 20 JULY 1990
(U) REPORT CLASS-S-E-elt-E-17
JBY RECORDED
REPORTING OFFICER. ALL PORTIONS CARRY CLASSIFICATION AND CONTROLS OF
OVERALL DOCUMENT.> ORIG/REL: END OF MESSAGE �5.GREr-
�/NF) 1. THE LULL IN FIGHTING BETWEEN ARMED FORCES OF LIBERIA (AFL) AND
NATIONAL PATRIOTIC FRONT OF LIBERIA (NPFL) FORCES ENDED ON THE AFTERNOON
OF 19 JULY. A PICKUP TRUCK CONTAINING FOUR AFL SOLDIERS AND THE DEPUTY
MINISTER OF LABOR WAS AMBUSHED ON THE CALDWELL (06-23N, 10-46W) ROAD ABOUT
ONE MILE FROM ITS JUNCTION WITH UNITED NATIONS DRIVE. THERE WERE NO
REPORTS OF CASUALTIES. REBELS MOVED THROUGH THE CALDWELL AREA AND
FIRING WAS REPORTED COMING FROM THE AREA NEAR THE LIBERIA ELECTRICITY
COMPANY (LEC) GENERATOR IN NEW KRU TOWN (06-22N, 10-47W). AFL SOLDIERS WERE
SEEN RETREATING FROM THE CALDWELL AREA TOWARD MONROVIA. THERE WERE
UNCONFIRMED REPORTS THAT ADDITIONAL AFL TROOPS WERE DISPATCHED FROM
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THE PRESIDENT'S EXECUTIVE MANSION GUARD (EMG) TO REINFORCE THE CALDWELL
AREA. THE MILITARY CLOSED THE ROAD FROM THE FREEPORT OF MONROVIA (06-21N,
10-48W) TO BREWERV DAY AFTERNOON.
iedNF) 2. FIGHTING WAS OCCURRING ON BOTH SIDES OF MONROVIA BETWEEN AFL
SOLDIERS AND NPFL FORCES ON THE MORNING OF 20 JULY. HEAVY EXPLOSIONS WERE
HEARD FROM THE DIRECTION OF CAMP SCHEIFFLIN (06-13N, 10-35W), PAYNESVILLE (06-
17N, 10-41W), AND THE FREEPORT OF MONROVIA THIS MORNING. TWENTY-FOUR AFL
SOLDIERS WERE REPORTEDLY DISPATCHED TO REINFORCE THE POSITION SOUTH OF
THE ST. PAUL RIVER BRIDGE (06-23N, 10-47W) ON THE MORNING OF 20 JULY. FIRING
WAS HEARD IN THIS AREA AND APPROXIMATELY 20 REBELS, WEARING RED ARM
BANDS, WERE OBSERVED CROSSING THE ST. PAUL RIVER BRIDGE AT 0923 HOURS.
SMALL ARMS FIRE ALSO WAS HEARD IN THE AREA OF THE WATERLOO CHECKPOINT
NEAR BREWERVILLE (06-25N, 10-47W) SHORTLY AFTER THE REBELS CROSSED THE
BRIDGE.
......481/NF) 3. THERE WERE REPORTS OF GUNFIRE IN THE SINKOR-CONGOTOWN AREA,
DOWNTOWN MONROVIA, AND NEAR THE U.S. EMBASSY ON MAMBA POINT ON THE
MORNING OF 20 JULY.
,(61/NF) 4. TENSION IS EXTREMELY HIGH IN MONROVIA. NERVOUS AFL SOLDIERS
ESTABLISHED A TIGHT SECURITY CHECKPOINT AT JALLATOWN ROAD, THE NORMAL BY-
PASS ROUTE AROUND PRESIDENT SAMUEL K. ((DOE))'S EXECUTIVE MANSION, ON THE
MORNING OF 20 JULY. AFL SOLDIERS AT THE JALLATOWN ROAD CHECKPOINT
REPORTEDLY STOPPED VEHICLES AND STATED THAT THE ROAD WAS CLOSED TO ALL
U.S. VEHICLES; HOWEVER, AN OFFICER FROM THE EMBASSY DEFENSE ATTACHE
OFFICE PASSED THROUGH THE AREA WITHOUT INCIDENT. FRIGHTENED CITIZENS
DESERTED THE STREETS AND RETURNED TO THE SAFETY OF THEIR HOMES. SHOPS IN
THE DOWNTOWN AREA REMAINED CLOSED IN THE MORNING AND IT IS UNLIKEI Y
BUSINESSES WILL OPEN THIS AFTERNOON.
Collection: CC
Creator:
Agency Acronym: CIA
Office Name: NCS
Description: (U) None
Language: en
Precedence: 0
Source:
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