NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE DAILY (CABLE) WEDNESDAY 25 MAY 1983

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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2022
• Document Release Date: August 9, 2018
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• Publication Date: May 25, 1983

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EL SALVADOR: New Government Campaign
San Salvador's planned civil-military campai n in the southeast is
a crucial gamble for the armed forces.
//The government is planning a major pacification operation to
establish control of the strategically important departments of San
Vicente and Usulutan. Military sweep operations will begin in about
two weeks and will involve as many as seven Army battalions./
//After the sweep operations, some military forces are to remain
behind to prevent the guerrillas from returning until new civilian
defense forces can be trained. Civilian government agencies�using
US development aid�will be in rebuilding the economic and social
infrastructure.//
The insurgents, meanwhile, continue to attack roads, bridges,
and other targets in the region. The government plans to set up a
temporary bridge over the Lempa River to replace the key Oro Bridge,
which linked central El Salvador with the east until it was destroyed in
1981.
Eleven US-supplied temporary Bailey bridges have been installed
to replace structures damaged by the guerrillas. Press reports say the
insurgents destroyed one of the bridges in La Union Department over
the weekend.
Comment: The government's plan is designed to break the
guerrillas' momentum. Prospects for success are limited, however,
because of the lack of good military field commanders and material
resources. Moreover, the insurgents probably will react by increasing
attacks against economic and military targets on other fronts, thereby
divertina the armed forces before the program is completed.
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