COLOMBIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP67B00446R000600260028-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 25, 2005
• Sequence Number: 28
• Publication Date: February 5, 1965
• Content Type: BRIEF

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5 February 1965
FOR THE HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE
COLOMBIA
I. In Colombia, Communists and other leftists are
continuing their efforts to turn the widespread
banditry of the back country into a coordinated
guerrilla insurgency serving political ends.
A. In the past, concerted army efforts have
ultimately won effective--if incomplete--
victories over guerrilla leaders who pro-
fessed and in some cases demonstrated ties
to Castro. The latest such campaign was
against a bandit known as Tiro Fijo, or
"Sure Shot," leader of the Communist en-
clave in the Marquetalia area, who the
Colombian Army finally claims to have
"neutralized."
B. A small urban terrorist organization of
about 100 men, calling itself the Army for
National Liberation or ELN, however, now
threatens to become the nucleus for a new
attempt to coordinate insurgency in
Colombia.
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1. On 7 January 25-50 ELN guerrillas at-
tacked a town in Santander Province
using tactics similar to Venezuela's
FALN. ELN efforts to broaden its
guerrilla base in other areas have
been reported and the ELN is also said
to control some urban groups. Clandes-
tine reports indicate the ELN has re-
ceived funds and training from Cuba.
II. Rural violence continues elsewhere in Colombia
while the government wrestles with acute politi-
cal and economic problems and labor unrest.
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