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• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06626243
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: March 9, 2023
• Document Release Date: January 23, 2020
• Case Number: F-2016-02132
• Publication Date: May 31, 1977

The
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Published by the Director of Central ntelligence for Named Principals Only
TUESDAY MAY 31, 1977
VOLUME 4, NUMBER 125
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4 TUESDAY MAY 31, 1977
THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE DAILY
News
BRIEFS
modest, the Guatemalan government
departed from Its usual hard-line approach
toward dealing with terrorists and allowed the
text to be read.
The group, the most active Guatemalan
guerrilla band In recent years, has carried out
kidnapIngs, robberies, assassinations, and
the destruction of sugar cane fields.
Senior Guatemalan officials reportedly
decided yesterday to wait until alter the IDB
session ends on Thursday before launching a
roundup of suspected members of the
guerrilla group It the ambassador is still being
held then.
The ambassador lathe second Salvadoran
official to be kidnaped In two months. A
Salvadoran terrorist group kidnaped El
Salvador's foreign minister In April and
murdered him on May 11, alter the
. Salvadoran government had refused to
release 37 political prisoners.
Guatemala
A Guatemalan terrorist group, theiGuerrilla
Army of the Poor, kidnaped El Salvador's am-
bassador to Guatemala on Sunday. The inci-
dent coincided with the annual meeting of the
Interamerican Development Bank�held this
year In Guatemala City�and the kidnapers
demanded that a "communique" be read at
the meeting.
Because the hostage Is a foreign official
and the initial demand of the kidnapers was
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