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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP08S01350R000601870002-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 26, 2012
• Sequence Number: 2
• Content Type: REPORT

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TURKEY-SYRIA: Evidence of Syrian Sabotage
Turkish authorities have concluded that the Syrian Secret Service
(Al Muhabbarat) was responsible for a fire that killed eight and
injured 27 at an ammunition plant in August 1986, according to press
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working in the plant recently confessed that a Syrian diplomat used a
Jordanian diplomat as an intermediary to organize and pay them to
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Comment: The alleged sabotage took place soon after a bilateral
conference failed to resolve a water rights dispute and thus may be
perceived as a Syrian warning. Nevertheless, Turkey could use its
control over Syria's principal source of water?the Euphrates River?
as a bargaining chip to encourage Syria to stop supporting Turkish
dissident groups. Recent disclosures linking Syria to the
assassination of a Jordanian diplomat and an apparent plot against
an electrical plant near the Syrian border have already strained
relations
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TOD Secret
PERU: Election in Lima Certified, Protested
Nearly two months after the vote, the municipal election board has
ruled there was no fraud in Lima's mayoral election and has declared
the candidate from President Garcia's American Popular
Revolutionary Alliance, Jorge del Castillo, the victor over the Marxist
incumbent, Alfonso Barrantes. The decision has been appealed to the
national election board by leftwing and rightwing opposition parties.
The leftist Tupac Amaru terrorist group detonated two bombs,
including a car bomb placed near the municipal board's office, in
apparent protest of the decision, according to sources of the US
Embassy.
Comment: The national board is likely to affirm the municipal board's
rulings, but the appeal process will further delay del Castillo's
inauguration. Barrantes's defeat may also provoke more radical
opposition to the Garcia government, and more leftist street violence
is likely.
SWEDEN: Hard Times for Army
The Swedish Army may soon be 1,100 officers short of its
9,900 allotted billets as resignations continue because of low wages
and poor morale, The Army
Chief of Staff has promised to seek higher wages for commanding
officers in the defense plan now under consideration for 1987-92.
Meanwhile, the Army has adopted an austerity program to offset a
recently identified $85 million shortfall in the 1986 budget. The
program will include cuts in procurements and reservist training.
Comment: Although the government may vote supplemental funds
for the Army this month or next, they would probably be too little and
too late to redress quickly the Army's problems. As a result of the
smaller officer corps and reduced training, the Swedish Army's
readiness level probably will drop over the next two years.
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