NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE DAILY

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06626216
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• Document Creation Date: March 9, 2023
• Document Release Date: January 23, 2020
• Case Number: F-2016-02132
• Publication Date: February 6, 1982

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GUATEMALA: Counterinsurgency Effort
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The move was prompted by the recent discovery that
total guerrilla forces--possibly somo 4 500--are
twice the number estimated earlier.
The Army has formed three new battalion-size units
composed primarily of veterans recalled to active duty.
These forces will supplement a 3,800-man task force set
up late last year to operate in Quiche Department against
the country's major insurgent group, the Guerrilla Army
of the Poor.
The new units will operate farther north in the Ixil
Triangle.
Comment: The sweep in the Ixil Triangle, along with
the other operations in the area, underscores the govern-
ment's commitment to a long and tough campaign, based in
part on a new awareness that the insurgents have gained
significant Indian support in the highlands. Although
the three new units could add as many as 1,600 men to the
15,000-man Army, large-scale sweeps are already stretch-
ing the Army's manpower in other zones of guerrilla
activity.
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6 February 1982
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