CLANDESTINE RADIO TRANSMITTER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000500730102-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 8, 2003
• Sequence Number: 102
• Publication Date: November 30, 1998
• Content Type: REPORT

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on 6 Juno 1949 at 21:30 EST a voice broadcast in Spanish from a clandestine short-'wave
transmitter in the direction of Venezuela was intercepted calling the "people of
Venozmla (to) join in the battle of the resistenoe against the Military Juata" vb=
it lQp as the "expression of anti-popular reaction." The sponsors of tlp claadegtiue
radio wore revealed i n t h e next sentence: "Ag3SO D is the va d of the
people of Venezuela in their battle without qua;-ter against the fascist dictatorship...
Citizen! FLmmber that the dictatorship is everyoosy's plague, and the fist to over-
throw it should be everybody's."
"Fellow party members" were urged to increase their party propaganda, to teice subccriptione
to the clandestine press, and to listen to the Resistance Radio. The latter, it said,
stood for "the overthrow of the dictatorship, the reconquest of popular sovereignty which
has beamusurpod, and a rotarn to constitutionali,y."
The station identified itself as "IIa Emisora do la Resistencia" and gave no location,
but used the call letters YV6AD. (Note: According to the Venezuelan system of indicating
the distri ` in which a radio station is located, the 'letters T76 denote the district
formed by the provinces of Guarico, Anzoategui, Sucre,Mmagae and Bolivar. Hence by
assuming those call letters, the Resistance Radio indicated itself as an Aceibn.
Democratica transmitter in the a'Mve district.) The wavelength was announced as 45 maisre
or 6.8 megacycles; the actual measured frequency was 6743.6 kilocycles.' The signal was
fairly strong, and inte7li.gibiltty fluctuated considerably and.suddenly, as if technical
adjustments to the mmdulatien were being made during the broadcast. A distinct power
hum was evident in the carrier.
The broadcast closed at 21:50 after the saaomncer said that they had to leave the air
for a time. "But soon we will be with you, combatting the-military dictatorahip'in
Venezuela as always." A careful watch has been kept since, but no f1a ther broadcasts
have been int++rcepted.
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