WEEKLY SITUATION REPORT ON INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM APRIL 1977[SANITIZED] - 1977/04/06

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• Collection: Argentina Declassification Project - The "Dirty War" (1976-83)
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• Publication Date: April 6, 1977

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Argentina: Montonero's Financial Assets Seized
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TAB A - Chronology of Significant International Terrorist
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Argentina: Montonero's Financial Assets Seized
The Montonero's ability to carry out terrorist opera-
tions is likely to be severely curtailed as a result of the
loss of about 85 million U.S. dollars of the group's funds
to Argentine security officials. The Montonero official in
charge of finances was captured by the security forces last
February. During questioning he provided detailed information
on the terrorist organization's financial structure, including
the location of deposits in Europe.
Escorted by security officers, the former Montonero
treasurer traveled to Madrid, where he withdrew $14 million
from a bank account. The group then proceeded to Geneva,
Switzerland, where some $50 million was taken from an account
and stock certificates of an unknown value were removed from
a safe-deposit box. The money from the Geneva account was
given to the Argentine embassy in Bern which sent it to
Buenos Aires by means of the embassy's diplomatic pouch.
The $14 million acquired in Madrid was carried back to
Argentina by the group. As of late March $1-2 million of
the money obtained in Europe was missing, apparently taken
by one of the security officials who went on the trip.
Shortly after their return, the former Montonero led officials
to a safesite in Cordoba where $17 million was found and
also to a site in Mendoza where $4 million had been hidden.
Most of the Montonero funds were probably from its
kidnaping activities. From the early 1970s until the end of
1975 the Montoneros, like other terrorist groups and bands
of common criminals, engaged in kidnapings. Ransoms paid
for the release of their victims were often quite high. The
Montoneros reportedly received between $30-60 million for
the release of two businessmen, the Born brothers, in 1974.
Tough security measures by the government as well as the
departure of many non-Argentine business representatives who
have been prime targets for kidnapers, has resulted in a
sharp decline in the amount of ransom collected by the
various Argentine groups.
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CHRONOLOGY OF SIGNIFICANT INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST ACTS
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28 March 1977
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Buenos Aires
Exkplosion in Buenos Aires at
Building HousTETSoviets
A bomb exploded outside a
Buenos Aires building containing
the offices of the Soviet
commercial attache and the
residences of members of the
Soviet embassy. No one was
injured. The attack was one
of several bombings in the
city on the same night.
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BACKGROUND ARTICLE
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Foreign Activity of the Revolutionary Coordinating Junta
Almost since the founding of the Revolutionary Coordina-
ting Junta (JCR) by the People's Revolutionary Army (ERP) of
Argentina, the National Liberation MovemelitiTupamaros (MLN/
Tupamaros) of Uruguay, the National Liberation Army (ELN) of
Bolivia, and the Revolutionary Movement of the Left (MIR) of
Chile during February 1974, there has been a simultaneous
initiation of activity by Latin American exiles in Europe
under the JCR banner. JCR membership was originally concen-
trated in France, with substantial numbers also in Sweden,
Ital and Portugal.
By September 1976, however, JCR activity both in Latin
America and abroad was almost at a standstill; only the
Latin American Press Agency (APAL), based :in France and
operated by the MLN/Tupamaros, was continuing propaganda
activity on a significant scale. Some attempts were being
made by the JCR exiles to proselytize in Latin American
e:Kile colonies, particularly among student groups, and in
solidarity organizations, but this brought very little
return for the investment of time and effort.
A JCR congress, originally set for October 1976, was
finally held in Rome in November 1976.
The main items on the agenda were a short resume of revolu-
tionary activity in Latin America since the Cuban revolution,
a description of the current revolutionary situation, indi-
vidual reports on the situation in JCR meObers' countries,
and an assessment of the JCR and agreements on basic guide-
lines. JCR representatives agreed to establish the principal
base of the JCR in a country other than that of any of the
members. This was felt necessary in viev(of the success of
countersubversive operations by several Latin American
governments and because of the internal sOism in the JCR
caused by the diverse policies of its constituency. The JCR
membership split when opposing factions of the MLN/Tupamaros
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began struggling for overall control of their organization.
Notwithstanding these divisions, the JCR congress agreed
that its Central Bureau should meet every six months and it
established a permanent executive secretariat which would
attempt to locate its headquarters in a Latin American
country, with Mexico being selected as the optimum choice.
The congress decreed that the JCR secretariat should be
charged with preparing statutes for the JCR, deciding JCR
strategy and plans, publishing the third issue of the JCR
magazine, and studying the internal dissensions of the MLN/
Tupamaros.
The JCR's most recent activities have included providing
documentation, safe havens, and other support to members of
the Bolivian ELN who have been trained in Cuba and are
scheduled to be sent to Europe and infiltrated back into
Bolivia. They will serve there as a base for future anti-
Bolivian government guerrilla activities.
The JCR propaganda mechanism has contacts with approxi-
mately 16 different organizations in France. Included are
such groups as the Committee for the Support of the Struggle
of the Argentine People, the Solidarity Committee for the
Struggle of the Ecuadorean People, and the Guatemalan Soli-
darity group. The JCR also publishes a bulletin in Venezuela
entitled the "Noticia Tres."
As of April 1977, JCR activity in Italy is non-existent,
with the ERP and the MIR having decided to completely abandon
direct participation, utilizing instead the services of the
Antifascist Committee Against Repression in Argentina (CAFRA),
which has the support of the Italian Communist Party (PCI).
An Argentine ERP member who travels between Rome and Milan
is the CAFRA representative in contact with the PCI. The
MLN/Tupamaros are not engaging in any public activity in
Italy, while the ELN of Bolivia is no longer actively repre-
sented there. The CAFRA also serves as a contact point
between the ERP and the Montoneros of Argentina. The Mon-
toneros, however, while nominally belonging to CAFRA, continue
to carry on activities separate from the ERP and CAFRA
because they object to CAPRA's close association with the
PCI. The Montonero leadership maintains that the PCI does
not recognize either the Montoneros, the ERP, or other
groups in CAFRA as legitimate political alternatives to the
present Argentine government. They contend that the PCI is
using CAFRA for its own political objectives in Italy.
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Date:
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11 April 1977
Argentina,
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ArgentinExecutive of U.S.-
connecte&Company Slain
An Argentine executive of
the Surrey Company, which
operates under a license
from General Motors Corpora-
tion, wasshot and killed in
Buenos Aires on 11 April.
Anonymous callers to Buenos
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