PERUVIAN GOVERNMENT'S BELIEF THAT US INTELLIGENCE IS MASTERMINDING PLOT AGAINST IT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78S01932A000100180057-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 27, 1999
• Sequence Number: 57
• Publication Date: November 25, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

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TO: IMMEDIATE WHITE HOUSE//SITUATION ROOM FOR MR FAZIO?Y
WARNING NOTICE SENSITIVE INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHODS
I TEN NO: WH-2 DATE: 25 NOVEMBER 1974
SUBJECT:' PERUVIAN GOVERNMENT'S BELIEF THAT US INTELLIGENCE IS
MASTERMINDING PLOT AGAINST IT.
THE GOVERNMENT IS CONVINCED THAT
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US INTELLIGENCE IS HEAVILY INVOLVED IN ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL
EFFORTS TO WEAKEN THE MILITARY REGIME OF PRESIDENT OVELASCO.
1'-1E BELIEF THAT THE US IS BASICALLY HOSTILE TO VELASCO'S
GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN AN UNDERLYING FACTOR IN PERU'S FOREIGN
POLICY SINCE THE MILITARY TOOK POWER IN 196g. THIS CONCERN HAS
INCREASED SINCE EVIDENCE OF US INVOLVEMENT IN CHILEAN AFFAIRS
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THE MEETING OF EIGHTXPRESIDENTS NEXT MONTH HAS ALSO MADE THE
GOVERNMENT SENSITIVE TO DOMESTIC UNREST.
THIS REPORT PROBABLY REFLECTS ACCURATELY THE PERUVIAN
GOVERNMENT'S CONCERN ABOUT FOREIGN INVOLVEMENT IN ITS INTERNAL
AkFAIRS PARTICULARLY AS IT COULD RELATE TO A POSSIBLE CONFLICT
WITH PERU THE REPORT, HOWEVER, SEEMS TO EXAGGERATE THE EXTENT
TO WHICH PERUVIAN LEADERS BELIEVE . :?0 US INTELLIGENCE IS INVOLVED.
N0REOVEk , THE ASSUMPTION OF US INTERFERENCE IS ONLY ONE OF
SEVERAL FACTORS INFLUENCING VELASCO'S REACTIONS TO PROBLEMS
FACING H~S 'REGIME
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