RAID BY THE ARGENTINE FEDERAL POLICE OF A TOP-LEVEL CONFERENCE OF THE REVOLUTIONARY COORDINATING JUNTA - 1976/04/14
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COUNTRY: ARGENTINA/CHILE
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SUBJECT: RAID BY THE ARGENTINE FEDERAL POLICE OF A
TOP-LEVEL CONFERENCE OF THE REVOLUTIONARY
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1.. ON 29 MARCH 1976 THE FEDERAL POLICE LED A RAID ON
AN ESTATE IN MORENO, BUENOS AIRES PROVINCE. WHERE A TOP-LEVEL
CONFERENCE OF THE REVOLUTIONARY COORDINATING JUNTA CJCR)
WAS IN PROGRESS. THE CONFERENCE WAS BEING PRESIDED OVER
BY THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE PEOPLE'S REVOLUTIONARY ARMY
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(ERP), ALONG WITH THE REVOLUTIONARY WORKERS PARTY (PRT), WHICH IS THE
POLITICAL ARA OF THE ERP. INDIVIDUALS, WHO HAVE NOT BEEN IDENTIFIED,
WERE ALSO IN ATTENDANCE FROM THE CHILEAN MOVEMENT OF THE REVOLUTIONARY
LEFT (MIR), THE URUGUAYAN NATIONAL LIBERATION MOVEMENT/TUPAMAROS AND THE-
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BOLIVIAN REVOLUTIONARY WORKERS PARTY, THE POLITICAL ARM OF THE ARMY OF
NATIONAL LIBRATION (ELN).
2. IN THE COURSE OF THE RAID THERE WAS A SHOOTOUT#
DURING WHICH TIME SEVERAL OF THE PARTICIPANTS OF THE JcR
MEETING ESCAPED, INCLUDING MARIO ROBERTOSANTUCH 0,
ALIASES HPOBI" AND "cARLos," WHO IS BOTH COMMANDER OF THE
ERP AND SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE PRT, SOME OF THE ERP/PRT
MEMBERS PRESENT, HOWEVER D WERE TAKEN PRISONER AND NUMEROUS
DOCUMENTS WERE C0N7ISCATED0 SEVEN 70 ELEVEN 017 THE
PARTICIPANTS WERE tILED DURING THE sHOOTOuTc AND THE
AUTHORITIES 0,RE PRESENTLV 2N THE ,,,,CECE- OF sTTEKPTING TO
DETERMINE THEIR IDENTITIES,
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CONFERENCE HAD
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BEGUN 27 MARCH AND WAS SCHEDULED TO END ON
1976. A PRINCIPAL TOPIC OF DISCUSSION WAS
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THE STRATEGY THE ERP/PRT SHOULD ADOPT IN THE FACE OF THE
NEW MILITARY GOVERNMENT IN ARGENTINA, PARTICULARLY WITH
RESPECT To FUTURE ACTIVITIES THE ERP/PRT SHOULD PURSUE WITHIN
THE LABOR SECTOR.LIlIllil COMMENTI THERE IS NO INFORMATION
AT THIS TIME AS TO WHAT SPECIFICALLY MAY HAVE BEEN DECIDED,
IF ANYTHING, AS A RESULT OF THE DISCUSSIONS WHICH HAD BEEN
TAKING PLACE DURING THE JcR CONFERENCE SESSIONS.)
4. ONE oF THE DOCUMENTS CAPTURED WAS A PRESENTATION
PAPER OF THE CHILEAN MIR REPRESENTATIVE.
FOCUSES
ON THE IMPORTANCE OF LEARNING FROM PAST EXPERIENCES AND
MISTAKES OF THE VARIOUS JCR MEMBER ORGANilAtIONS, IN
THIS REGARD, THE MIR ADMITS THAT IT ERRED IN OVER-ANTICIPATING
A STRONG POPULAR RESISTANCE TO THE MILITARY REGIME FOLLOWING
THE OVERTHROW OF PRESIDENT SALVADORALLENDE, THE
MIR ALSO CONFESSES TO UNDER-EVALUATING THE WEAKNESSES WITHIN
ITS OWN oRGANIZATION WHICH HAVE BEEN REVEALED EACH TIME
THE MIR HAS TRIED TO TAKE THE INITIATIVE AGAINST THE MILITARY
GOVERNMENT IN THE POLITICAL AND MILITARY SPHERE. IN THE
PROCESS OF SELF-ANALYSIS. THE MIR HAS CONCLUDED THAT IN THE
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PAST IT H\S PLACED TOO MUCH EMPHASIS ON THE ARMED STRUGGLE
AND CLANDESTINE ACTIVITY, IGNORING FOR THE MOST PART LEGAL
AND SEmI-LEGAL FORMS FOR ACHIEVING ITS OBJECTIVES, THE
DOCUMENT STATES THAT A MORE INTENSIVE EFFORT BY THE MIR TO
WORK THROUGH LEGAL AND SEMI-LEGAL STRUCTURES HAS ALREADY
BEGUN, TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE REFORMIST TENDENCIES OF THE
WORKING CLASS, AND THAT PROGRESS CAN BE NOTED, PARTICULARLY
WITHIN THE LAST FEW MONTHS, THE DOCUMENT SENDS GREETINGS
FROM THE NEW SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE MIR, WHO IT IS NOTED
WAS RECENTLY NAMED.
5. AMI NG OTHER ERP/PRT PEOPLE. IN ADDITION TO MARIO
SANrucHO, WHO ESCAPED DURING THE RAID WERE DOMINGO M E N A,
ALIAS "GR:NGO") JUAN MANUELCARRIEO, ALIASES "CAPITAL
FR44c/SCO, AND "EL FLACO"; JUANMANGINI, ALIAS "CAPITAL
PEPE," WH( HAS BEEN THE ERP G.2 (INTELLIGENCE) CHIEF IN
TUcumAN: rARTINSTREGER; AND "NESTOR._"
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ADDITIONAL ERP/PRT MEMBERS WHO ESCAPED WERE
LILIANA DELFINO DEoRT0LANI, BENITO JORGE
URT.EAGAAND MARTIN SALVADORFALCO N. ERP
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ONE OF THE INDIVIDUALS KILLED WAS
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