[SANITIZED]WEEKLY SITUATION REPORT ON INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM 20 AUGUST 1980 - 1980/08/20

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Argentina Declassification Project - The "Dirty War" (1976-83)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06628091
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: April 3, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 12, 2019
• Publication Date: August 20, 1980

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Weekly Situation Report
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International Terrorism
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CONTENTS
Articles:
20 August 1980
Strange Deaths of Montonero Terrorists (Page 7)
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Strange Deaths of Montonero Terrorists
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Argentine, Spanish, and other foreign press services
have been publicizing the death in Madrid under uncertain
circumstances of Argentine citizen Noemi Esther Gianotti de
Molfino on 20 July. Press accounts vary as to the actual
cause of death--one describes death by natural causes while
another refers to an assassination by Gianotti's two Argen-
tine companions, one identified as Julio Cesar Ramirez.
According to Spanish police, the woman had entered Spain on
an Argentine passport issued in the name of Maria del Carmen
Sain: and had resided in a Madrid apartment which had been
rented by Ramirez and where her partially dressed body was
discovered on 23 July.
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Newspaper reports identify Gianotti as one of four
Argentines, including Ramirez, who were arrested and deported
from Peru to Bolivia in June 1980 for being alleged Mon-
toneros (Pcronist Montonero Movement) and for having entered
Peru illegally. Other reports say that the alleged Mon-
toneros were kidnaped in Lima by Argentine military forces
aided by Peruvian authorities. Still other published
articles claim that the Argentines were tortured in Peru and
that, in fact, Gianotti and two others had died as a result
of the tortures. The confusing information presents an
unclear picture as to the actual _events concerning the death
and travels of Gianotti. Undoubtedly, conflicting infor-
mation and speculation will continue concerning this "inter-
national" incident.
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on 12 June 1980
Peruvian and Argentine security personnel arrested three
Argentine subversives, including Julio Cesar Ramirez and
Nocmi Esther Godoy de Molfino, in Lima, Peru. The three
subversives had entered Peru with alias Argentine passports.
Codoy's alias passport was in the name of Maria del Carmen
Salccdo.
cations base in Lima, probably for the support of unidentified
subversives in Argentina. As previously arranged between
the security services, the Argentine suspects were to be
transported to the Peruvian city of Desaguadero on the Bolivian
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border, where they would then be transferred to Bolivian
authorities. The plan included the immediate transfer of the
subversives from Bolivian to Argentine authorities, who would
take custody of the trio on the Bolivian side of the border.
This incident has received extensive media coverage with
Peruvian security authorities being publicly condemned and
criticized for their involvement with the Argentine securit�
services. It is known that in late July Peruvian intelli-
gence officials were engaged in an all-out effort to prove
that the three suspected Argentine subversives were indeed
transferred to Bolivian authorities in Desaguadero on 17
June. 3.5(c)
One Peruvian leftist weekly newspaper alleged that a
fourth Argentine, Federico Frias, was detained on 11 June by
Argentine security service personnel operating in Peru. The
newspaper also claimed that a fifth Argentine subversive was
being sought by Peruvian and Argentine authorities. The
Peruvian Government, however, has mentioned publicly that
only three Argentines were detained and deported from their
country. 3.5(c)
In an unrelated incident, according to press reports,
on 3 August two Montoneros committed suicide in Puerto
Iguazu, Argentina, on a boat which docked in that port city
near Brazil. The two Montoneros were identified as Liliana
Ines Goldemberg and Eduardo Gonzalo Escabosa, both Argentine
citizens. An Argentine Army communique states that the
couple had disembarked from the boat but apparently panicked
when they noticed armed forces personnel controlling the
immigration post. Both returned to the boat and immediately
swallowed a poisonous substance which killed them instantly.
Additionally, the communique describes Goldemberg as a
:4entonero who in 1979 was in charge of Casa Argentina in
:4adrid but had recently been operating in Buenos Aires.
Among the personal effects seized from the couple were false
identification documents, directives for sabotage and terrorist
actions and manuals for preparation of explosives. Allegations
were made that the couple carried instructions to receive
coded messages through Radio Noticias del Continente which
transmits from Costa Rica.
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Radio Noticias operates on the shortwave band and has
transmitted critical reporting about the military governments
of the southern zone countries. It was granted an operating
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license in early August 1979. During March 1980 a small
bomb exploded in the San Jose offices of Radio Noticias del
Continente causing minor property damage. Costa Rican
authorities were not convinced that the bombing incident was
a genuine act of terrorism, since during a 1 January attack
on the station's radio transmitter installation it had been
widely speculated that the station itself was responsible.
Costa Rir-n officials later learned that the radio station
had actua,ly executed a fake commando-style attack against
its own transmitter site with the intent of generating
publicity favorable to the station but critical of conserva-
tive opposition to the station's continued operation in
Costa Rica. During the 1 January attack the radio station
became the focus of unofficial diplomatic protests by the
southern zone governments of South America which were targets
of critical editorial and news commentaries. 3.5(c)
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