REVIEW OF INSURGENCY PROBLEMS

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 5, 2006
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• Publication Date: September 1, 1965
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REVIEW OF INSURGENCY PROBLEMS
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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Colombia . . . , . 1
Paraguay . . . . . ~ . , . . , 2
Peru . . . , . . o . .
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Venezuela . . . , , , . . ;;
Thailand. . , . , . . 7
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fJCI No. ?579/65
INTELLIGENCE MEA+IORANDUM
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Office of Current Intelligence
1 September 1965
Review of Insurgency Problems
1. Colombia
The Colombian military forces chief of
operations recently stated that the chief counter-
insurgency effort of the armed forces is still in
the IV[arquetalia area, where two army battalions .are
operating "methodically but steadily" against five
or six principal bands. The population of the
area, he said, is basically antiarmy because of the
preponderance of extremist philosophies there
rather than because of military actions.. The of-
ficer believes that the Communist bandit leader
Tiro Fi~o has escaped to the area of Rio Chiquito,
where the military policy is still essentially one
of peaceful pacification. He asserted that the
EI Pato area, in the peripheries of which bandits
still operate, is still a problem.
Recent Colombian press articles indicate
that continued extremist training and warfare be-
tween Communists and non-Communists exist in the
traditional Communist enclaves of Sumapaz and Viota.
The chief of operations stated that, although there
were great problems in these traditional enclaves,
their easier accessibility to military patrols made
them of lower priority than the other areas. Lastly,
he said that the main stronghold of the Castroist
Army of National Liberation (ELN) appears to be in
Santander State, but that the ELN is making some
efforts in Antioquia State and may be trying to
establish a training center in Tolima State.
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l~ccording to the US Embassy, there are
rumors in the region of cent~?a l Santander Stat e
that the ELN is about to mount a campaign of
violence and terrorism. In mid-August the ambush
of an eight-man army patrol by a group of bandits
in army uniforms in Santander resulted in four
soldiers killed but the ELN has not claimed credit
for this act.
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Z. Paraguay
Brazilian authorities have raided a guer-
ri11a camp near Campo Grande in the state of Mato
Grosso and arrested about 15 members of a Paraguayan
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Communist guerrilla group. Among the 15 prisoners
is former Paraguayan Army Lieutenant Colonel Lorenzo
Abel Arrua, described as chief of Paraguayan guer-
rilla activities in Brazil. The Brazilian security
officials apparently uncovered a well-hidden arms
cache containing weapons from various countries,
which they believe may have been supplied by Cuba.
The guerrillas appear to have been primarily en-
gaged in training activities aimed at operations to
overthrow the government of Presid ent Alfredo
Stroessnerin Paraguay.
The Brazilian action came at approximately
the same time Paraguay's own security forces arrested
some 60 low-level Paraguayan Communist Party (PCP)
members in rural areas of central Paraguay where
they were attempting to farm cadres far guerrilla
columns. The two series of arrests seem likely to
leave the PCP with even fewer assets than before in
its unequal struggle against the Stroessner gov-
ernment .
The promp
Brazilian act on n noun ing up ie guerrillas and
the stated intention of security officials to
follow up their investigations will certainly be
another plus in the generall cordial relations
w en Brazil and Para a .
3. Peru
The armed forces appear to be preparing
for a large military operation against guerrillas
of the Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR)
in central Peru. A temporary joint army - air
farce base is reportedly being established in
Satipo, subordinate command post of the Huancayo
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military operations center, In additionD navy
gunbohts have been deployed at the confluence of
the Tambofl Ene9 and Satipo rivers,
MIft guerrillas in the central region--
n?w be~.ieved limited to two small groups of 50
and 20 men9 both consisting of trained cadre and
local Indihns--are apparently retreating toward
the Ene ftiverfl having lost their base-camps in
the Huancayo-Andamarca area, They may be heeded
south in an attempt to link up with guerrillas
in the Cuzco Department, Military strategy is de-
signed to cut off the retreat at the Ene and keep
the guerrillas from joining others in Cuzcow
Should they ?scap? to the south, armed action might
be triggered there where popular support for the
insurgents i,s greater than in central perue Thus
Eery serious outbreaks have been prevented in the
youth by v~irde.~~ca~le police arrests of suspected
subversives,
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