NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00975A027900010010-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 28, 2005
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: July 7, 1975
• Content Type: REPORT

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ARGENTINA: Cabinet resignation designed
to lessen opposition to administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
LEBANON: Terrorist group lists demands
for US army colonel's release . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
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The resignation of the Argentine cabinet, announced last night, appears
designed to attenuate the rising opposition to President Peron's administration by
demonstrating that the President, not her controversial welfare minister and chief
adviser, Jose Lopez Rega, is in charge.
The President, in fact, may be moving not to lessen her reliance on Lopez Rega,
who is also her private secretary, but merely to create that impression. The
President's reluctance to limit Lopez Rega's role has led directly to her current
problems with labor leaders, who hold Lopez Rega responsible for the government's
decision to annul wage hikes negotiated last month.
Some leaders of the Peronist labor confederation reportedly now feel that
Lopez Rega's ouster is their most important goal-more important than gaining a
reversal of the decision on wages. The cabinet's resignation came only hours before
the start of a two-day general strike, the second since the government's decision.
Opposition politicians have called openly for the dismissal of Lopez Rega, and
even members of the ruling Peronist party are increasingly anxious for his departure.
And although they remain cautious, the military have indicated their sentiments. In
a statement issued during the weekend, the service chiefs listed among their
"principal concerns... giving the President the freedom of action to change the
members of her cabinet." The reference was clearly to Lopez Rega.
The Buenos Aires press in recent days has joined the chorus against Lopez
Rega. Stories on his possible departure have proliferated, despite fears of retaliation
by the right-wing terror squads that the minister is said to control.
Politicians and military officers are thus joining for the moment with organized
labor in opposing a common enemy, but the alliance is not necessarily a happy one.
Both the politicians and the officers realize that if a change of government is indeed
hastened by pressure from labor, the workers, who are becoming steadily more
undisciplined, will be an exceedingly difficult force to deal with.
Labor's leaders, for their part, do not necessarily wish 'to force the departure of
the President along with Lopez Rega. As the legitimate heir of Juan Peron, she is
essential to their efforts to retain control of the labor movement.
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The "Revolutionary Socialist Action Organization" that has threatened to kill
US Army Colonel Ernest Morgan in Beirut apparently is the same Lebanese radical
group that has carried out a series of attacks against official and private US interests
over the past two years. The group us?,.; leftist rhetnric and ferlaveen tartirs to cover
what are essentially criminal activities
A spokesman for the PLO denied last night that the fedayeen were responsible
for Morgan's abduction. Major fedayeen leaders-including the head of the terrorist
Black September Organization-have condemned the recent spate of kidnapings in
Lebanon and have threatened to "execute any Palestinian" who engages in them.
In a statement released to several Beirut newspapers last night, the kidnapers
said Morgan will be released if by Wednesday night the US makes public the
statement of the Revolutionary Socialist Organization, asks the Lebanese
government to stop searching for Morgan, and delivers to inhabitants of a poor
section of Beirut large quantities of food, clothing, and building materials.
These conditions are designed to improve the group's image and elicit
protection from the relatively deprived part of Beirut's population.
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