REVIEW OF INSURGENCY PROBLEMS

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• Publication Date: August 25, 1965
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REVIEW OF I TswtO CI' P'RO LEES
This publicationprovides aperiodic review of internal
security inndedeve1Qped,~countries there tier is
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This publication provides a periodic review of internal
security in underdeveloped countries where there is
a threat from Communist-supported insurgency.
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Honduras
Peru
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Office of Current Intelligence
25 August 1965
INTELLIGENCE MEMORANDUM
Review of Insurgency Problems
1. Thailand
Another skirmish between suspected Commu-
nist subversives and Thai border police, the fourth
noted in northeast Thailand sip~ae 29, Julm- occurred
in Ubon Province on 16 August.
2. Tanzania
Dar es Salaam is having second thoughts
about its militant support for the Congo rebels
and other dissident Africans, but remains ideologi-
cally committed to their cause.
Foreign Minister Kambona informed the OAU's
African Liberation Committee recently that his gov-
ernment wants the ALC headquarters moved out of
Dar es Salaam. The Tanzanians are tired of bearing
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the full burden of the OAU liberation effort with-
out receiving the promised financial contributions
from member states. They are also beginning to
realize the potential threat to their own security
posed by the sizable flow of arms through Tanzania.
President Nyerere and Kambona are now con-
cerned that their external diversions are exacerbat-
ing relations with Western countries at a time when
Nyerere is seeking major financial aid and are be-
coming a serious drain on the country's resources.
Military expenditures have nearly depleted the
development fund.
training in the Kigoma area has reportedly dropped
from 3,000 to about 1,000 and small boats have
been observed carrying men across Lake Tanganyika
to the Fizi area. The Tanzanians are probably
anxious to get rid of these unruly ruffians as soon
as they complete their training. However, many of
them are unwilling to abandon the good life in
Tanzania to fight in the eastern Congo, and the
Tanzanians fear that they will begin selling their
weapons within Tanzania. There is no indication
that the Tanzanians have stopped their arms supply
operations across the lake.
As it becomes more apparent to Nyerere that
he stands alone in Africa in backing a losing cause
in the eastern Congo, he may cut back his support
for that operation. He may also slow down the
southern African liberation effort, but it is un-
likely that he would be willing or able to abandon
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the cause. Nyerere's convictions and his country's
location almost ensure a continuin role fsor Tan-
zania in this militant; campaign.
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5. Honduras
President Lopez plans to send the Chief
of the Honduran Armed Forces to Guatemala this
week to coordinate plans for a joint attack on
guerrillas in the border area. He stated that
the existence of guerrilla groups in the Cerro
Azul area on the Guatemalan-Honduran border has
been confirmed, and that the guerrillas are aided 25X1
by a high degree of mobility and a good intelligence
and warning system. Furthermore, Lopez feels
that the nature of the vegetation and terrain pre-
cludes the use of aircraft.
6. Colombia
During the past six months central gov-
ernment forces have slowly but surely consolidated
their occupation of the Marquetalia region for-
merly ruled by the Communist bandit "Tiro Fijo."
The exact whereabouts of "Tiro Fijo" and his
force, however, are not known, and it is uncer-
tain whether they army has succeeded in winning
over the local population, some of whom still
assist scattered bandits. The army also occupied
the administrative center of the El Pato Commu-
nist zone on the Huila-Meta-Caqueta borders in
March.
Meanwhile, rural banditry of the classic
pattern, although continuing, is not the major
threat it once was. Considerable concern now re-
volves around subversive organizations on the
Castroist model which are attempting to set up
combined urban-rural apparatuses. Such an organi-
zation is the "Army of National Liberation" (ELN),
which now has claimed credit for the bombing of
three oil pipelines belonging to Texas Petroleum
and Cities Service near the petroleum center of
Barrancabermeja on 17 and 18 August. The ELN and
the hard-line faction of the Communist Party
(Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Colombia--
PCC-ML) have been responsible for one attempted
and two successful bombings of US Government
property and personnel since the beginning of
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the year. This may presage an increased terrorist
effort in this field in the near future. The lack
of success by terrorist groups to date in setting
up a coordinated rural-urban terrorist apparatug
is no guarantee against future successes,
Antiguerrilla military operations continue
in central Peru, but no significant skirmishes
reported, have been
Administrative counterinsurgency measures
have been taken to aid the military campaign. The
government has unified police and armed forces
command in the southern and northern military re-
gions and added two more departments to the Junin
central military command.. The Peruvian Congress
has passed two counterinsurgency bills which were
put into effect by President Belaunde on 20 August.
.One bill establishes severe penalties, including
death, for subversives engaging in violence or
guerrilla warfare, and the other authorizes a
defense bond issue to defray expenses of the anti-
guerrilla campaign.
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