WEEKLY SITUATION REPORT ON INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM 11 MAY 1976[SANITIZED] - 1976/05/11

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Argentina Declassification Project - The "Dirty War" (1976-83)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06627643
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: April 3, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 12, 2019
• Publication Date: May 11, 1976

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Weekly Situation Report
on
International Terrorism
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WEEKLY SITUATION REPORT
CONTENTS
Articles:
11 May 1976
Argentine Terrorists Take Hostage to Force Release
of Chilean Ally (Page 4)
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Argentine Terrorists Take Hostage to Force Release of Chilean
Ally
In late April the Argentine People's Revolutionary Army
(ERP) kidnapped an Argentine air force commodore, believed
to be Robert Moises Echegoyen, and has subsequently demanded
the release from prison of one Enriquez--probably Edgardo
Enriquez, a leader of the Chilean Movement of the Revolution-
ary Left (MIR) and member of the Revolutionary Coordinating
Junta (JCR). Enriquez reportedly was arrested by Argentine 3.3(b)(1)
authorities when they raided a JCR meeting on 29 March.
The Argentine air force has told the
ERP that unless Echegoyen is returned unharmed, action will
bers of the ERP now in custody. 3.3(b)(1)
Enriquez is dead; however, the
rgen ine government as not yet acknowledged the fact that
it captured Enriquez nor has it reported his death.
The incident marks the first time that an Argentine
terrorist group has conducted a kidnap operation to free a
terrorist from another country. Kidnapping to force the
release of prisoners is rare but not unknown in Argentine
terrorism. The Montoneros kidnapped and later murdered
Honorary U.S. Consul John P. Egan in Cordoba in February
1975 to secure the release of prisoners, and the Armed
Forces of Liberation (FAL) kidnapped the Chief Justice of
the Provincial Supreme Court of Buenos Aires to secure the
release of Ser:io Schneider an .,-� FAL leader.
the Argentine air
torce is maintaining maximum security over the whole affair
in order to maximize the chance f7r the safe return of
Echegoyen.
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I. Terrorist Threats and Plans:
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Target: Business
Executives
* In late April it was re-
ported that the Montoneros
planned to renew operations
rlace: Argentina to kidnap executives of
large and wealthy firms in
Date: Unknown order to obtain funds. On
8 May the U.S. embassy re-
ported that Dow Chemical
and Chrysler Corporation,
as well �as nine other U.S.
companies, have received
identical threatening form
letters from the Montoneros.
The embassy and local police
take the threats seriously
and have so advised the com-
pany representatives.
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* Indicates a revision of a threat reported in previous issues.
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