[SANITIZED]WEEKLY SITUATION REPORT ON INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM 1 AUGUST 1979 - 1979/08/01

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Argentina Declassification Project - The "Dirty War" (1976-83)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06628089
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: April 3, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 12, 2019
• Publication Date: August 1, 1979

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Weekly Situation Report
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inter ationai Terrorism
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WEEKLY SITUATION REPORT
CONTENTS
Articles:
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Montoneros Broadcast Clandestine Television Audio
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Montoneros Broadcast Clandestine Television Audio Messa es
The Montonero terrorist organization of Argentina is
currently utilizing radio transmission equipment smuggled
into Argentina to override the audio portion of television
programs and broadcast antigovernment propaganda during
early evening hours. Thus far the Argentine authorities
have recovered three of the radio transmitters, two of which
were smuggled into the country by two women traveling from
Uruguay. The equipment is small and believed to b�ransport-
ed in a vehicle from which the broadcasts are made
The Argentine police have been investigating a series ,�
of about 23 broadcasts which began in March 1979 and which
have used local television frequencies in the cities of
Buenos Aires and Cordoba. The first broadcast took place in
Cordoba on 13 March and was identified as the voice of
Montonero leader Mario Firmenich, who lives in exile. All
broadcasts have taken place in the early evening between
1900 and 1930 on weekdays. The federal police estimate
that the reception of the clandestine broadcasts is limited
to a radius of ten city blocks from the transmitter. Normal-
ly, regular television programming is interrupted and the
sound and picture is temporarily lost. Then a voice (but
without a picture image) comes on the air to deliver an
antigovernment propaganda message sponsored by the Montoneros.
In each case the "on the air" time has been approximately
two minutes. The police suspect that a telephone company
truck contains the transmitter, since it has been seen in
the immediate vicinity of the interruptions on several 3.5(c)
occasions.
Montonero activities during June 1979 included four
broadcasts which interrupted television programs in eight
different sections of Buenos Aires. Another broadcast was
transmitted on 23 June after the machine-gunning of an
Argentine military regiment in Santa Fe.
During the broadcasts Firmenich has announced that the
Montonero movement will resume its offensive in Argentina
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during the month of August. Argentine security services
believe that some type .of terrorist act will occur to uphold
Firmenich's statement, and they anticipate that the act
will consist of a bombing of an official Argentine instal-
lation.
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