THE SECURITY SITUATION IN URUGUAY

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• Publication Date: April 10, 1967
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DIRECTORATE OF
INTELLIGENCE
Intelligence Memorandum
The Security Situation in Uruguay
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10 April 1967
No. 1056/67
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Directorate of Intelligence
10 April. 1967
The Security Situation in Uruguay
(Supp emend to- ].tua- ion eport Num er 33
Information as of 4:00 p.m. EST)
1. No new information has been received that
would change the basic conclusion reached in Special
National Intelligence Estimate 98-67, SECURITY CONDI-
TIONS IN URUGUAY, 23 March 1967. Nevertheless, Uru-
guayan security arrangements for the conference as a
whole have not developed as smoothly as we had hoped;
this increases the possibility that the Communists or
isolated terrorist groups would be able to create dis-
orders which could disrupt the conference or embarrass
its participants. Personal risk to President Johnson
still appears to be slight. We emphasize that we have
not identified any new or more serious-threat. It is
simply that weaknesses on the part of Uruguayan secu-
rity forces leave a greater opening for disruptive
activity.
2. The responsibility for the security of the
zone surrounding the San Rafael Hotel has been re-
turned from the army to the police, as originally
planned, and there are about 500 men on duty there.
Army troops have been provided to assist in the patrol-
ling of the outer periphery of the hotel area. The
police at the front entrance are specially trained in
crowd handling and riot control.
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5. The Surinamese security forces (about 1,100
Dutch troops) should be capable of providing adequate
protection at Zanderij airport, which is 20 miles
Bout. of Paramaribo. The only leftist party, the
Nationalist Republic Party, is small and ineffec-
tive. It probably could not mount a successful
anti-US demonstration. Surinamese are generally
pro-US, and it is unlikely that any significant
anti-US,anti-summit activities will be attempted in
Surinam.
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