TERRORIST FORCES - 1979/03/19

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Keywords: IRAN
• Collection: Argentina Declassification Project - The "Dirty War" (1976-83)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 05228286
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: April 3, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 12, 2019
• Publication Date: March 19, 1979

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message below reports on security conditions in Buenos Mires.
1. TERRORIST FORCES CURRENTLY PRESENT NO TIMEAT
wHATEvER TO GOVERNMENT STABILITY. FOR sEvERALIYEARS.
( �UNTIL THE OUSTER OF THE PERONIST GOVERNMENT BY MILITARY
FORCES IN MARCH 76, LEFTIST TERRORISM WAS A SERIOUS AND
GROWING PROBLEM IN ARGENTINA.. AS THE RgsuLT cut A TOUGH
( ANTI-SUBVERSIVE CAMPAIGN WAGED BY GOVERNMENT SECURITY
FORCES SINCE MID 1976, MAJOR TERRORIST ORGANIZ TIONS
IMONTONEROS, WI HAVE BEEN DECIMATED. .LEADERS OF THESE
( GROUPS NHO MANAGED TO EVADE CAPTURE HAVE BEEN FORCED INTO �
EXILE ABROAD, MOSTLY IN EUROPE, CURRENT ESTIMOP BY
SECURITY SERVICES INDICATE THAT THE moNTONEROSIMXvE ABOUT
( 245 MEMBERS IN THE COYNTRY AND ANOTHER eat) IN evrLE
ABROAD. THE ERP (PEOPLE'S REVOLUTIONARY ARMY) IS ESTIMATED
TO HAVE 138 MEMBERS IN ARGENTINA AND 90 ABROAD.
2. WHILE THE moNTONERDS AND INP STILL MAINTAIN A
UNITED CAPABILITY TO UNDERTAKE ISOLATED TERRORIST ACTS,
4HE LAST KNOW ACTION OCCURReD IN AUGUST 1978 WHEN THE
'MONTONERDS BOMBED THE HOPE OF THE NAVY .CommANDER IN CHIEF,
KILLING HIS 0A3G4TER. 0 , �
3."7THERE Is NO SIGNIPIcANT POLITICAL/SOCIAL UNREST
IN ARGENTINA AT.CUPRENT,INE. SECUREITY FORCES ARE CAPABLE
t OfetIANDLI:Ai ANY DEPONSTRAIIONS THAT MIGHT BE MOUNTED IN
NEAR FUTURE.
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