LATIN AMERICAN TRENDS: STAFF NOTES SEPTEMBER 22, 1976[SANITIZED] - 1976/09/22

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Argentina Declassification Project - The "Dirty War" (1976-83)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06627603
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: April 3, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 12, 2019
• Publication Date: September 22, 1976

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LATIN AMERICAN TRENDS
This publication is prepared for regional specialists in the Washington com-
munity by the Western Hemisphere Division, Office of Current Intelligence.
with occasional contributions from other offices within the Directorate of
Intelligence. Comments and queries are welcome. They should be directed to
the authors of the individual articles.
CONTENTS
September 22, 1976
Argentina-Cuba: Castro support for
Local Subversion"'
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Argentina-Cuba: Castro Support for
Two leftist subversives in the
authorities have detailed what they
support for terrorism in Argentina.
Local Subversion?
hands of Argentine
claim is Cuban
Argentine security forces last month captured
Patricio Biedma and Mario Espinosa, Chileans who for
some time had been working for the terrorist cause
in Argentina. Biedma says he was both the leader of
Chile's Leftist Revolutionary Movement (MIR) in
Argentina and that group's delegate to the Revolution-
ary Coordinating Junta (JCR), a loose coalition of
regional terrorist organizations. Espinosa claims
also to have been a MIR member and most recently a
combatant for the Argentine Peoples Revolutionary
Army (ERP).
Biedma states that he met frequently with an of-
ficer of the Cuban embassy in Buenos Aires who "on a
regular basis" provided funds for the JCR as well as
for the ERP and Montoneros.
e ma a so c aims that Havana has channeled funds
to the ERP and Montoneros through a courier sent by
a circuitous route to Buenos Aires.
Espinosa echoes the assertion that Cuba's embassy
provides funds to Argentine leftists and says that he
himself was trained in Cuba and then introduced to
the ERP by a Cuban contact in Argentina.
Argentine authorities began-inveStigating links
between the terrorists and the Cuban embassy almost
immediately following the March coup. By mid-summer
the Argentines were said to be nearly certain that
the embassy was providing a safe haven for top ERP
members and others associated with that group.
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/the junta would not hesitate to take
"harsh action" against the Cubans if Havana's involve-
ment were firmly established. Indeed, security of-
ficials may have been responsible for the abduction
and apparently killing of two Cuban embassy officers
last month.
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