(SANITIZED) GUERRILLA ATTACK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP08C01297R000700030068-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 25, 2012
• Sequence Number: 68
• Publication Date: September 25, 1983
• Content Type: CABLE

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COUNTRY: nn VENEZUELA (VE), COLOMBIA (CO)
SUBJ:
GUERRILLA CK/(U)
WARNING: (U) THI INFO REPORT, NOT FINALLY
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EVALUATED IN
DOT: (U)
REQS: (U)
Z-D13-VE001
SOURCE: (U)
TEL
830922
M-4BX-21845, K-OSI-00046, U-UCR-42673,
LOCAL PRESS
SUMMARY: (C) REPORT FORWARDS NEWSPAPER PHOTOS OF
DAMAGE/GRAFITTI LEFT AFTER GUERRILLA ATTACK OF 17 SEP 83
IN SOUTHWEST VENEZUELA.
TEXT: 1. (C) PHOTOS PUBLISHED IN LOCAL PRESS
AFTER THE 17 SEP 83 GUERRILLA ATTACK
DTG 202121 SEP 83 AND
DTG 222128Z SEP 83) IN EL CUTIFI (0709N/07158W)
NEAR THE VE-CO BORDER SHOW DAMAGE TO THE SINGLE GUARD-
HOUSE AND GRAFITTI LEFT AFTER THE ATTACK. THE LETTERS
"ELN" AND "FRENTE DOMINGO LAIN" ARE CLEARLY SEEN.
2. (U) THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION CONCERNING THE EL/7-
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WAS EXTRACTED FROM AN ASSOCIATED-PRESS ARTICLE?:
DATELINED BOGOTA WHICH APPEARED 22 SEP 83 IN "EL
NACIONAL" OF CARACAS:
A. FROM-PRESS7CONFERENCEHELD_BY_GUERRILLAS IN_MOUNTAINS
NEAR_MEDELLIN,itCO:
tHE-EJERCITO DE LIBERACION NACIONAL (ELN) IS TAKIINialif'.,
THE REVOLUTION-OF_CHE-GUEVARA TO "INTERNATIONALIZE-THE'
iROLETARIAN_STRUbGLE:ANDILIBEIi.ALIZEfLATiNIAMERICAFROM
YANKEE IMPERIALISM AND MAN'S EXPLOITATION_OF
THE-CUTIFI-ATTACK WAS THE BEGINNING OF THE IRTERNATIONA-a-
ZATION_OF_THE ARMED_STRUGGLE-IN-LATIN.AMERICA!AND WAS
LED BY SPANISH PRIEST DOMINGO LAIN, WHO HAD BEEN
PRESUMED DEAD 10 YEARS AGO.
ONE ELN CONTINGENT WAS TRANSFERRED TO EL SALVADOR TO
REINFORCE THE FMLN AND IS ALSO READY TO DEFEND THE
SANDINISTA REVOLUTION IN NICARAGUA.
B. iCOMMENTS-FR0M-THECOC'STATESECURITY4ORGANIZATIONS:
THE-ELN-IS ORE OF THE SMALLEST GUERRILLAIMOVEMENTS:IN
CO,,WITH_MEMBERSHIP NOT_REACHINGJ1000:1 ACTIVITIES IN
CO HAD BEEN LIMITED TO URBAN TERRORISM AND A FEW
ASSAULTS AND ABDUCTIONS IN RURAL AREAS. IPHE-ELN-ISI
FAR FROM HAVING THE POWEROF THE-OTHER_CO GUERRILLAr
IGROUPS,__FARC AND THE M-19!-- WHICH HAVE NUMBERS ESTIATED
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AT 2000 EACH. THE ELN HAS REJECTED GOVERNMENT AMNESTY
PROPOSALS.
COMMENT: (C) THESE ARE THE FIRST PUBLIC PHOTOS OF
THE INCIDENT. HARD EVIDENCE HAS NOT YET BEEN PRESENTED
WHICH IMPLICATED THE BANDERA ROJA.
PROJ:
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NO; REL TO: NONE
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