SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES ON THE COUNTERINSUR-GENCY CRITICAL LIST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00429A001200040019-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 17, 2004
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: October 15, 1963
• Content Type: IM

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OCI No. 2865/63
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Office of Current Intelligence
15 October 1963
CURRENT INTELLIGENCE MEMORANDUM
SUBJECT: Significant Developments in the Latin
American Countries on the Counterinsur-
gency Critical List
A. Countries on the Critical List
Venezuela
Terrorist activities since 7 October have
continued at a high rate with no sign of abating.
Most of the terrorist attacks were aimed at police,
military, and government personnel and installations
and at public communications. There were eight re-
ported assaults on police headquarters, seven as-
saults on government personnel and property, seven
attacks on radio and TV installations, and three
attacks on army personnel and installations. Of
ten attacks on private property, four were on US-
owned property.
The police have borne the brunt of the cas-
ualties. At least six police were killed and eight
wounded in the terrorist attacks and street gun-bat-
tles since 7 October. The Caracas police have lost
over 50 men during the past year.
According to Havana press, the Armed Forces
of National Liberation (FALN) terrorist offensive
is going into its third phase, "operation dignity."
The commander of the FALN addressed a speech to the
people calling them to form "self-defense groups"
in order to "prevent offensively, by every means,
the extermination raids being conducted by the
repressive forces of the dictatorship." He also
urged national guardsmen, police, and soldiers to
desert the "murderous ranks of the government."
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Although the leading opposition candidates
have denounced the government's strong-arm measures,
President Betancourt is going ahead in his effort
to strengthen the government's effectiveness against
the terrorists. His firm measures apparently have
appeased the military, at least temporarily.
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