ECUADOR/OAS - - SECURITY SITUATION IN QUITO

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78S01932A000100110007-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 30, 1998
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: November 11, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

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DATE: 11 NOVEMBER 1974
SUBJECT: ECUADOR/OAS--SECLIURITY SITUATION IN QUITO
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ALTHOUGH EARLIER REPORTING SUGGESTED SOME DETERIORATION IN
THE SECURITY SITUATION FOR THE OAS FOREIGN MINISTERS' MEETING,
THE TARGETS OF SEVERAL SMALL BOMB EXPLOSIONS IN QUITO OVER THE
WEEKEND APPEAR NOT TO HAVE BEEN THE OAS 1;TSELF OR ANY OF THE
FOREIGN MINISTERS.
THE MEETING IN QUITO HAS ATTRACTED' OFFICIAL, SEMI-OFFICIAL,
AND UNOFFICIAL REPRESENTATIVES OF DIVERSE NATIONAL INTERESTS AND
IDEOLOGIES. MUCH IF NOT ALL, OF THE VIOLENCE THAT HAS TAKEN
PLACE HAS BEEN DIRECTED AGAINST ON OR ANOTHER OF THESE GROUPS OF
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VISITOR%S TO QUITO, JSUALLY BY A HOSTILE GROUP ALSO AMONG THE
VISITORS. CHIEF AMONG THE IDEOLOGICAL FRICTIONS PRESENT IN ECUADOR
DURING THE MEETING ARE THOSE INVOLVING CUBAN NATIONALS AND CUBAN
EXILES, AS WELL AS CHILEAN LEFTISTS AND THE CHILEAN DELEGATION.
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