JACK ANDERSON GUERRILLA MOVEMENT BIG POWER PLAYS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-01601R000300210004-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 14, 2000
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: August 13, 1972
• Content Type: NSPR

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Jack A.izder?san
-Guerrilla Movement
COMMUNIST guerrillas
are operating across Latin
American borders with in-
creasing boldness.
For instance, two Guatema-
Ian guerrillas, known by the
underground names of
`-`Tomas" and "Raul," are re-
ported to have delivered
Cuban financial aid to the Ni-
caraguan Sandinista move-
ment in Managua.
liuherto Alvarado Arel-
lano, a Guatemalan Commu-
interested in settling their
differences with the Cubans,
since it appears that the
Cuban Communist Party is fi-
-nally lining up with the Sovi-
ets."
Both . Soviet and Cuban
funds are now used to fi-
nance subversion in Latin
-America.
nist leader, has been quoted
by the CIA, meanwhile, as
stating that "the Latin Amer-
ican parties are very much
Big Power Plays .
1V FEW weeks 'ago, the
.prime ministers of India and
-Pakistan at down at a con-
ference table and reached an
agreement that could. bring
plornacy . by the United -
States, or Russia, or China. It
was the result of the great
powers at last, minding their
own business,
peace between these neigh-
bors who have fought each
other three times in the last
quarter century.
Their latest war threatened
to engulf the world in a
larger, more terrible conflict.
A U.S. naval task force,
headed by the nuclear carrier
Enterprise, was detached from
the Seventh Fleet and order-
ed to the Bay of Bengal as a
"show of .force-." The task
force had contingency plans
for a Dominican Republic-
style invasion:
The plans weref disguised,
as was the Dominican land-
ing, as an "evacuation." All -
the while, the Wliite House
insisted America was remain-
ing neutral.
In the meantime, the
Chinese moved troops near
? the Indian border, and Paki-
stan's President Yahya Khan
was quoted by the CIA as
,saying he had assurances
the.'-.
Chinese were ready to invade,,,
India,
The Russians promised
India that any Chinese attack
would be countered with a
Soviet thrust against remote,'
Sinkiang province, , the.
Chinese nuclear and rocket
test area. The Russians also
assured India they would use
their naval forces in. the Bay
of Bengal to block any` hos-
tile action by the U.S. task
force.
In the end, a wider conflict-
was avoided, not by the diplo-
inacy or good intentions of
the great powers, brit by the
collapse of the Pakistan army.'.
in the cast.
It was a shabby chapter in
the history of big-power.poli-
tics. It was an even worse
blot on the record of the
United States, which lectures
the rest of the world oh de-.;
mocracy but supported the
Pakistani military dictator. ,
It is interesting to note
that the agreement reached
at the recent summit confer-
ence between Indian Prime
Minister Indira Gandhi and
Pakistani President All.
Bhutto, ? was the result of
their own' efforts. They de-
cided that the best interests
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