WEEKLY SITUATION REPORT ON INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM AUGUST 1976[SANITIZED] - 1976/08/03

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• Publication Date: August 3, 1976

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TERRORIST THREATS AND PLANS
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** Indicates a new threat reported for the first time.
* Indicates a revision of a threat reported in previous issues.
Target: MORMON MISSION
PRESIDENT
Place:
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Buenos Aires
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** The president of the Mormon
Mission in Buenos Aires re-
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that he and his family
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Target:
Target: Argentina ** The Argentine government has
Diplomats alerted its diplomats about
a possible terrorist attack
Place: Europe by a Paris-based group. The
Latin America threat against the Argentine
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The Argentine embassy in
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Cuban Support to South American Subversives
According to Patricio Antonio Biedma, the Revolutionary
Coordinating Junta (JCR) and national liberation movements
within the southern cone of South America have received
financial support from the Cuban government through diplomats
in the Cuban embassy in Buenos Aires and through couriers.
Biedma, the representative of the Chilean Movement of
the Revolutionary Left (MIR) in Argentina and the MIR repre-
sentative within the JCR, was detained by Argentine auth-
orities in early August. He succeeded Edgardo Enriquez, the
Chilean MIR coordinator in the JCR and MIR representative in
Argentina, who was killed in early April during a raid of a
JCR meeting site near Buenos Aires by Argentine security
forces.
Biedma said that Cuba currently is conducting, a polit-
ical and military training school for leftist subversives,
and that Cuban funds and support are provided on a regular
basis to the JCR, the Chilean MIR, the Argentine People's
Revolutionary Army (ERP) and the Argentine Montoneros.
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In addition to the financial assistance received by the
MIR, ERP, and Montoneros through direct payments from the
Cuban embassy in Buenos Aires, a courier carried funds from
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TERRORIST THREATS AND PLANS
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Target: U.S. BUSINESSES
Place: Argentina
Date: 19-22 August
1976
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Terrorists plan to attack U.S.
businesses in Argentina between
19 and 22 August, according to
a U.S. businessman who was so
advised by a government secu-
rity official. The terrorists
plan to take over factories
and blow up parts of them to
halt production.
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the ERP and Montoneros have
decided jointly to attack the
Place:
Argentina,
security guards at the foreign
Buenos Aires
embassies in Buenos Aires and
targeted individuals will be
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Target:
Argentina
The Argentine government has
Diplomats
alerted its diplomats about
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Place:
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by a Paris-based
roup.
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TERRORIST THREATS AND PLANS
I. Western Hemisphere,
Target: Security Guards
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the ERP and Montoneros have
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security guards at the foreign
embassies in Buenos Aires and
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Booby-Trapped Packages Injure Officials of Foreign Firms
in Argentina
Four persons were injured in Buenos Aires on 26 August
when they opened package bombs mailed by unidentified persons
to officials of six foreign firms, including four U.S.
companies. The packages were delivered to officials of IBM,
Ford Motor Co., a Ford subsidiary company, General Motors,
Squibb Laboratories, and Renault Argentina. The bombs were
concealed in small boxes of a type used for a popular pen
and pencil set sold in Argentina. They were accompanied by
transparent plastic flower boxes containing orchids. At the
home of IBM chairman Benito Esmeroni, instructions had been
given never to accept packages without knowing the sender.
In this case the package was accepted from a messenger who
said only that it came from a friend of the family. Esme-
roni's daughter, although suspicious, opened the package
carefully while standing as far away as possible. The
explosion blew off her left hand and some fingers of the
right hand. A security official later estimated that the
explosion would have killed her had she bent over the package
The other packages were delivered at factory offices.
The director of Renault Argentina and the Ford subsidiary
official also received severe injuries to their hands. The
other recipients were suspicious and turned over the packages
to factory guards or police, who detonated them. In one
case a package detonated in an open yard left a one-meter
crater in the ground. At Squibb, a policeman also sustained
hand injuries while trying to neutralize the explosive.
In early 1976 at least eleven U.S. companies operating
in Argentina received threatening letters from the Montoneros,
but it is not known whether the above companies were threat-
ened. Both the Montoneros and People's Revolutionary Army
(ERP) have attacked foreign firms in the past, but both
terrorist organizations generally make public claims of
responsibility for their terrorist acts, for propaganda
purposes. So far there is no evidence 1inkin2 either of
these organizations to the package bombs.
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Two Cuban Embassy Personnel Missing in Argentina
Two staff members of the Cuban embassy in Buenos Aires
have been missing since 9 August. according to the Aruentine
news media.
Argentine security forces abducted the
Cubans, who were believed to be providing support to the
subversive People's Revolutionary Army (ERP).
the Cubans have been killed.
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the Cubans were kidnapped
and killed by the Cuban exile organization CORU. The exiles
hope by this means to intimidate the Mexican authorities
into releasing two Cuban exiles who attempted to kidnap the
Cuban consul in Merida. (See the issues of 27 July and 10
August.) At this time it seems probable that Argentine
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CORU leaders may simply be taking advantage of the publicity
surrounding the disappearance of the two Cubans in order to
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CHRONOLOGY OF SIGNIFICANT INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST ACTS
Date:
Place:
27 August 1976
Argentina,
Buenos Aires
Flower Bombs in Buenos Aires
Three people were injured in
separate incidents when bombs
hidden in flowers and other
gift packages exploded. One
of the victims was associated
with the Renault automobile
company, another with IBM,
and a third with a Ford
subsidiary.
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