WEEKLY SITUATION REPORT ON INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06626244
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: March 9, 2023
• Document Release Date: January 23, 2020
• Case Number: F-2016-02132
• Publication Date: February 8, 1977

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Weekly Situation Report
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International Terrorism
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8 February 1977
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Guatemalan Guerrilla Army of the Poor Allegedly Kidnaps
U.S. Citizen
Several men suspected of being members of the Guatemalan
Guerrilla Army of the Poor (EGP) kidnaped Edmundo Brol, a
naturalized U.S. citizen of Guatemalan extraction, on the
morning of 7 February, only a few hundred feet- from the U.S.
embassy where. Brol's son-in-law is a commercial attache. A
letter left with Brol's driver at the scene of the incident .
very much resembles a ransom letter sent by the EGP following
the late December 1976 kidnaping of Juan Jose Hermosilla, a
Guatemalan businessman. Like the Hermosilla letter, the
Brol ransom letter demands $500,000 dollars in various
specified denominations. .
, Supporting the assumption that the EGP is perpetrating
the kidnaping is the fact that accompanying the ransom
letter was a document removed from one of several- coffee-
hauling trucks owned by Brol. The trucks had been burned by
EGP members on the south Guatemalan coast during late 1976.
As far as family members know, the kidnapers are not
aware that Brol is a U.S. citizen. The Brol family, fearing
action by government forces which would endanger the victim's
life, have not yet decided whether to report the kidnaping
to the Guatemalam government or to try to obtain Brol's
release on their own. This may be the second incident
between the EGP and U.S. personnel during the last few
months; the first incident involved a Shenandoah Oil Company
drilling camp, which was occupied for several hours on the
morning of 26 November 1976. (See the 30 November 1976
for additional background.)
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Date: 7 February 1977
Place: Guatemala,
Guatemala City
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'U.S. Businessman Kidnaped in
Guatemala City
Edmundo Brol, a' naturalized
U.S. citizen of Guatemalan
extraction, was kidnaped by
several men in Guatemala City
on 7 February. A ransom of
$500,000 was demanded in a
letter, purportedly from the
Guatemalan Army of the Poor
(EGP), which was left with
Brol!s driver. Brol is the
father-in-law of a U.S. em-
bassy officer in Guatemala
City. (See Article.) (SE-
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