REVIEW OF INSURGENCY PROBLEMS

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• Publication Date: December 14, 1965
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INTELLIGENCE MEMORANDUM
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.
DIRECTORATE OF INTELLIGENCE
Office of Current Intelligence
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This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended.) Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
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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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Peru. . . .
Venezuela
Guatemala
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Office of Current Intelligence
14 December 1965
Review of Insurgency Problems
1. Thailand
Two minor skirmishes between police and
suspected subversives occurred in Nakhon Phanom
Province on 6 and 8 December. The number of sub-
versives involved was small in both instances, and
there were no police casualties. A government
helicopter was fired on during the 8 December en-
gagement, but sustained no damage. Both skirmishes,
the ninth and tenth in the northeast this year,
came as a result of government patrol activity.
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Communist-supported Cameroonian dissident
elements are getting a new lease on life as a re-
sult of hospitality and facilities being afforded
them by the radical regime in Congo (Brazzaville).
Although these elements do not pose any early
threat to moderate President Ahidjo's government
in Yaounde, Ahidjo and other Cameroonian authori-
ties are becoming increasingly concerned about the
security of the remote, heavily forested southeastern
corner of their country.
Reports
of a growing presence
in Congo (Brazzaville) of elements of the outlawed
Cameroon People's Union (UPC) have been accumulating
for several months. These elements, including long-
exiled UPC activists and some newer recruits, are
said to be receiving ideological and guerrilla train-
ing along with militants of the Brazzaville youth
movement at a site near Brazzaville. Other UPC ad-
herents are reportedly based at a forward camp in
the vicinity of Ouesso near the Cameroonian frontier.
Chinese Communists, who now number several hundred
in Congo (Brazzaville), have been reported serving
in supporting roles in both places.
Yaounde claims. to have uncovered evidence
of propaganda activity among the populace in south-
eastern Cameroon and has been increasingly fearful
that the dissidents may launch guerrilla attacks
across the border. The Cameroonian government be-
lieves that the immediate aim of such guerrilla
activity would be to ease government pressure on
UPC remnants still holding out in the southwest
highlands. The government has been concerned over
possible coordinated forays from eastern Nigeria
and the Central African Republic along with attacks
from the Congo.
Although Cameroonian fears are almost
certainly exaggerated--especially regarding the
numbers of UPCists now at peripheral points--the
situation bears careful watching. The dissidents
evidently are infiltrating the southeast in small
numbers. They may attempt some cross-border forays
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and force the government, which has already in-
creased its army and gendarmerie strength in the
area, to disperse its thin forces still further.
Any real insurgency there would probably consist
of low-level activity for the foreseeable future
and would hardly pose a direct threat to the
Ahidjo regime. However, government efforts to
cope with it would be impeded by the difficult
terrain and lack of roads as well as the weak-
ness of the security forces.
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The recent capture of two high-ranking
guerrilla leaders in central Peru is the first
serious blow to the Movement of the Revolutionary
Left (MIR) in that region. Until now, the hard-
core MIR membership in central Peru has remained
relatively unscathed, despite numerous clashes
with government forces.
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receiver at the Franciscan mission, demanded food
and supplies, and departed after spending the night.
Government forces are now searching for the band in
this area.
5. Venezuela
A booby-trapped gift sent to a congres-
sional leader of the governing Democratic Action
(AD) party on 6 December apparently was intended
to explode in Congress and would probably have
killed him and several of his colleagues had it
done so. The gift appeared to be a statuette of
the Virgin Mary, which the congressman took home
to his wife. The bomb detonated when she removed
a tag attached to the image, and she was killed.
No single act of
terrorism in Venezuela's
violence-ridden history
has created such wide-
spread revulsion among
the people and their .
leaders. This has been
directed generally at the
Communist Party (PCV) and
the Movement of the Revo-
lutionary Left (MIR).
Congress, in a special
joint session, unani-
mously condemned both or-
ganizations. President
Leoni also spoke out
against the PCV, claiming
the bombing was the Com-
munists' reply to over-
tures for pacification
issued publicly by a
group of intellectuals--
possibly with AD backing.
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6. Guatemala
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In a televised speech on the evening of 8
December, Peralta reassured the Guatemalan people
that his regime is capable of maintaining public
order and demanded that terrorists who have en-
gaged in kidnapings and other forms of extortion
cease their activities. If he fails to follow the
speech with effective measures against the terror-
ists, however, he may lessen public confidence
still further.
The terrorists struck again on the day of
Peralta's televised appearance. They killed three
farmers in Zacapa, and in Guatemala City shot the
visiting mayor of a village in the guerrilla-in-
fested Department of Izabal. On 9 December the
third victim in a series of kidnap plots was re-
leased in return for $75,000 ransom.
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