DCI WORLDWIDE BRIEFING - HONDURAS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83M00914R002100170023-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 24, 2006
• Sequence Number: 23
• Content Type: REPORT

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DCI WORLDWIDE BRIEFING - HONDURAS
Government Forces: 18,400 total
Extreme Left: Number of armed militants unknown, probably less
than 500.
Government
-- The government of President Suazo, the first civilian
president in a decade, is providing Honduras with its most
competent leadership in years.
-- The Suazo Administration established from the outset a
harmonious relationship with the Armed Forces Commander
Alvarez and with other senior military officers.
Extreme Left
-- Cuba has increased training, funding, and arms smuggling
to the Honduran extreme left because of its belief that
Tegucigalpa is acting in complicity with the US against
the Salvadoran insurgents.
-- Acts of terrorism and sabotage began to increase in
Honduras during 1981.
-- Honduran terrorist groups, with major assistance from
Salvadoran insurgents, appear determined to continue the
expansion of their campaign of violence and subversion
against the government.
-- The most spectacular terrorist incidents this year were
the July bombing of Tegucigalpa's main power supply and
the seizure of over one hundred businessmen as hostages
during September. Salvadoran insurgents worked closely
with Honduran leftists in planning and conducting these
and other terrorist operations.
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HONDURAS
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*Although a legally inscribed party, the PCH is involved in some terrorist actionb
as well as gunrunning, and is preparing for armed revolution.
**PASO is also a legally inscribed party, but is involved in arms trafficking from
Nicaragua to El Salvador.
***ALIP4 is a faction of the PLH, and its semi-autonomy is . recognizedby the PLH..
leadership; some ALIPO leaders are leftists and tied to Cuba.
****FUL is a faction of the PLH, but is not recognized as such by the PLH leadership.
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