[SANITIZED]JCR REPORT - 1978/07/28

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Argentina Declassification Project - The "Dirty War" (1976-83)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 03238346
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: April 3, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 12, 2019
• Publication Date: July 28, 1978

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THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
WASHINGTON, D. C. 20505
Office of Legislative Counsel
Mr. Louis W. Hunter
International Division
Room 4824
United States General
Accounting Office
Washington, D.C. 20548
Dear Mr. Hunter:
OLC RECORD COPY
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26 JUL 1970
I am forwarding a classified report on the
Junta de Coordinacion Revolucionaria (JCR). This
report was requested by Mr. Louis Zanardi of your
International Division.
I am hopeful that this report will be useful
to you.
Sincerely,
7s1
Frederick P. Hitz
Legislative Counsel
Enclosure
Unclassified When
Separated from Enclosure
Distribution
Orig adse
1 - PCS/LOC
1 - OLC Subject
1 - OLC Chrono
(25 July 1978)
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JCR
The Junta de Coordinacion Revolucionaria (JCR) was
established in 1974 at the behest of the ERP of Argentina.
Its original membership comprised the ERP, the MIR of Chile,
the ELN of Bolivia, and the MLN/Tupamaros of Uruguay. The
goal of the JCR was to create a joint international committee
which would coordinate and support the various activities
of Latin American national liberation and terrorist groups.
From the original groups, the JCR rapidly expanded its con-
tacts to other Latin American, and later to purely European,
groups. A number of Latin American groups were counted as
members of the JCR with voting rights, others were members
without voting rights. The JCR leadership was made up of
the leaders of the member-organizations.
One point of special note: The JCR was originally con-
ceived of as an umbrella organization for coordinating
regional operations. The various national groups would
handle their own policies and run their own operations and
personnel within their own countries, �but would work through
the JCR when other countries were involved. As such, the
JCR did not have the power to force its will on its members.
When government forces began to succeed in their fight
against the terrorists in Latin America, JCR leaders decided
to flee to Europe. There they tried to establish power bases
and began planning their return to Latin America. However,
they had problems in financing their activities, and the
groups soon began to fragment due to diverse personality and
policy problems. The result was a shift from planning and
support of guerrilla actions to propaganda activity in the
international press. They also began to contact interna-
tional groups to solicit support, such as from the UN
Commission on Human Rights.
The JCR in Latin
America is currently, in our view, moribund. In Europe, the
JCR appears limited to conducting legal propaganda activities.
There has been no hard proof that the JCR as an organization
has been involved in international terrorist incidents
either in Latin America or in Europe.
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