IMPORTATION OF ARMS FROM ARGENTINA BY MNR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002300370009-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 7, 1998
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: February 4, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Bolivia/Az-?Antirs
SUBJECT Importat3vn of Arms frog Ar~antina b6r 1~
PLACE
ACQUIRED
LATE OF tN
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:L ~~ Various :ar~.ll arr,~ c-,mini froQa 4rientlra have reoantlq been Pound in the
posse Iovir.;'.ento Tlaoionctlista 1'~~voluQionsrio (ilt~R) elernvnts in Bolivian
~~fo whim reported that Sul Tema Palace yras in poaseaeion of an
4r~entine suhrnachx.:e ~-tan when he was detzined by Bolivian authoritieso)
~? Police suspicion ~entEars at present oa Vi canto 0rdoyoo an Argentine national,
whose trip to 13o'.ivl.a r7c>ose of eellinL; arms to tie 21TdT{ has been pry
viously reporte~a (cfo ,and on two Lloyd Aereo I3oliviaa~o pilots,
t-731ter Arne Ro~r.s and Juan tloreirra tiost~,~3, Arse, who eras reported in SUm2000~
to F~~ne aided `f.1R leader Luis Penalozet to eocape fr+ors Cntayamerin,, and ;-ioa~ira
are said to hf ~,?e aided in the traiasportst:.on of acme Erna the Ar~entiae harder
n~~.on to the interior of Boa ivies Both c.i" th?se piYot$ were officers in they
Bolivian Air ':brce under Villa,rroal, and after the fall of that rode, were
convicted arv. punished for participation in the political activities of the
Lo~ia Itadep~a
:3 o PTerrbers o~ the AfifdR high corttvand in La Paz :Mate that ~iotor Paz ~stenssoro is
ini close `: such with the Peron Boverraxnen?t on the qu.?stion of obtaini
a revolt '.n Bolivia. -Paz ~stens~om is ro;7ort d ~ arms for
petrolo~a:~, in exc P ~ ~' Pr^omisin~ access to Bolivian
han~e for arms,
This document is horeby regrad?
CORif"iDEN~IAL in accordan .~ t'~e
letter of ~6 October from t:o
Director of Gent eiiigence to file
Archivist o nited States.
t >~o.
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Approved For Release 1999/099 : CIA-RDP82-004578002300370009-1