POSSIBLE VIOLENCE IN QUITO DURING OAS MEETING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78S01932A000100180025-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 27, 1999
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: November 8, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

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WARNING NOTICE SENSITIVE INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHODS
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SCATTERED VIOLENCE NAY TAKE PLACE IN QUITO DURING THE OAS
FOREIGN MINISTERS' MEETING. REPORTING STRONGLY SUGCE:ST5,
HOWEVER, THAT THE MAIN ECUADOREAN COMMUNIST GROUPS--THE ORTHODOX
COMMUNIST PARTY AND THE CONFEDERATION OF ECUADOREAN WORKERS?
HAVE TAKEN STEPS TO MINIMIZE DISRUPTIONS DURING THE CONFERENCE
FOR FEAR OF UNDERMINING WHAT THEY FEEL IS A SATISFACTORILY
PRO-CUBAN SENTIMENT.
MORE E~,TR ..ME LEFTISTS IN THE SMALL PRO-PEKING COMMUNIST
PARTY AND SEVERAL STUDENT W TEACHER GROUPS ARE LESS CIRCUMSPECT
AND ARE QUITE .LIKELY .TO USE SOME.OF THEIR STOCKPILED MOLOTOV
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COCKTAILS AND DYNAMITE AGAINST TARGETS OF OPPOERTUNITY?
YESTERDAY'S EXPLOSIONS IN QUITO CAN PROBABLY BE ATTRIBUTED TO
THEM; AND THERE MAY BE MORE AT A DEMONSTRATION PLANNED TODAY?
SUCH DEMONSTRATIONS OR TOKEN VIOLENCE ARE UNLIKELY TO
DISRUPT THE CONFERENCE ITSELF. THE HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS OF THE
CONFEREES AND THE TRANSIT ROUTES BETWEEN HOTELS AND THE LEGISLATIVE
PALACE ARE MORE VULNERABLE, BUT ECUADOR'S PRO-PEKING COMMUNISTS ARE
YOUNG AND POORLY ORGANIZED,. AND THE COUNTRY'S SECURITY SERVICES
ARE FULLY CAPABLE OF CONTAINING THEM. E-2 IMPDET.rr
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