SALVADORAN CAPTURE OF SANDINISTA GUERRILLA

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 19, 2006
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: March 6, 1982
• Content Type: CABLE

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MEMORANDUM FOR. Appr ed For Release 2007/02/08 : CIA-RDP84
Summary of interrogation of captured Sandinista
by Salvadoran authorities.
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(B) SAN SALVADOR 1830 (NOTAL)
1.-7:UMMARY:THERE FOLLOWS A DESCRIPTION OF THE CICUMSTANCES
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SURROUNDING THE CAPTURE AND SUBSEQUENT ESCAPE OF THE
SANDINISTA GUERRILLA!, LIGDAMIS ANAXIS GUTIERREZ ESPINOZA
,a LIST OF DOCUMENTS NOW IN POSSESSION OF GOES POLICE, A SUMMARY
OF GUTIERREZ" CONFESSION MADE TO THE NATIONAL POLICE.
2...C.TRCUMSTAN ON FEBRUARY 22, A?SANDINISTA GUERRILLA
LIGDAMIS AHA I: GUTIERREZ ESPINOZA! WAS CAPTURED BY
THE SALVADORAN MILITARY IN THE TOWN OF LAS CHINAMAS IN THE
DEPARTMENT OF AAUACHAPAN!. APPROXIMATELY 5 KMS FROM THE
GUATEMALAN BORDER. THIS INDIVIDUAL WAS TURNED OVER TO THE
NATIONAL POLICE FOR INTERROGATION ON FEBRUARY 22
GUTIERREZ WAS INTERROGATED BY THE NATIONAL POLICE DETECTIVES
UP UNTIL FEBRUARY 25. THEN. ON MARCH17AREN EY THE NATIONAL POLICE
AGENTS. TO THE MEXICAN -EMBASSY IN AN ATTEMPT TO IDENTIFY HIS
(GUTIERREZ') CONTACT BY THE NAME OF jORGE1 WHO WAS 7_,UPPOSEDLY
AN EMPLOYEE OF THE. MEXICAN EMBASSY. ACCORDING TO? THE POLICE
REPORT! WHEN THE POLICE AGENTS AND GUTIERREZ ARRIVED AT THE
EMBASSY, THE EMBASSY GATE WAS BEING OPEN TO ALLOW A VEHICLE
TO ,-DEPART. AT THAT TIME GUTIERREZ ASKED ONE OF THE PERSONS
INSIDEjHE COMPOUND! ''WHO JORGE?" IMMEDIATELY ANOTHER
INDIVIDUAL! IN. A.? VIOLENT MANNER! GRABEED?OTIERREZ BY THE
?
ARM AND PULLED HIM INTO THE EMBASSY. WHEN THE NATIONA
POLICE AGENTS TRIED TO TAKE HIM AWAY, THE SAID INDIVIDUAL
INFORMED THEM THAT. THEY WERE NOT ABLE TO ENTER THE EMBASSY
-PREMISES AS IT IS CONSIDERED MEXICAN. TERRITORY. AT THE
SAME MOMENT, TWO OTHER INDIVIDUALS ARRIVED AND TOOK
GUTIERREZ INTO THE EMBASSY BUILDING ..IT IS PRESUMED BY THE
POLICE THAT THE INDIVIDUAL WHO GRABBED GUTIERREZ' ARM IS THE
INDIIVIDUAL KNOWN AS JORGE BECAUSE, ALTHOUGH THE AGENTS
IDENTIFIED THEMSELVES AS NATIONAL POLICE USING THEIRPOLICE
IDENTIFICATION, THEY DID NOT RELEASE GUTIERREZ. LATER THE
SAME DAY., MR. CARLOS EDUARDO AMEZQUITA MARTINEZ, MEXICAN
CHARGE D' AFFAIRES! ASKED FOR POLITICAL ASYLUM FOR
GUTIERREZ AND TWO SALVADORANS ALONG WITH SAFE CONDUCT PASSES
FOR THE THREE INDIVIDUALS. THE NATIONAL POLICEMEN WHO
ACCOMPANIED GUTIERREZ TO THE MEXICAN EMBASSY MADE A COMSPOSITE
OF THE INDIVIDUAL WHO HAD GRABBED GUTIERREZ AND PULLED HIM
INTO THE COMPAOUND. THE COMPOSITE IS AN IDENTICAL LIKENESS
OF THE MEXICAN CHARGE D' AFFAIRES. IT IS OUR UNDERSTANDING
THAT THE CAPTURED SANDINISTA GUTIERREZ IS STILL LOCATED IN
THE MEXICAN EMBASSY AWAITING GOES DECISION .REGARDING THE
MEXICAN REQUEST FOR POLITICAL ASYLUM AND SAFE CONDUCT OUT OF
THE ? ... ? .
3. DOCUMENTATION IN THE ROSSES'AON OF THE GOES AUTHORITIES:
A. CAPTURED SANDINISTA GUTIERREZ' NICARAGUAN PASSPORT WICH
DOES NOT BEAR AN ENTRY STAMP FOR EL SALVADOR.
E. STATEMENT ?MADE TO THE GOES AUTHORITIES EY GUTIERRE? THAT HE ?
RESIDED AT VISTA IDEAL Na. 517! COLONIA LINDA VISTA! GUADALUPE!
MONTERRY.! NUEVO LEON.
C. GUTIERREZ/ STATEMENT TO THE GOES AUTHORITIES THAT HE IS A
STUDENT AT ESTUDIANTE DE FACULTAD DE FISICA IN MONTERREY.
D. GUTIERREZ' NICARAGUAN PASSPORT SHOWS THAT ? HE APPLIED FOR
A US VISA AT THE US CONGEN AT MONTERREY ON MAY 201 1981.
HIS PASSPORT ALSO SHOWS THAT HE RECEIVED A MEXICAN TOURIST
VISA ND. 721 ON JANUARY 301 1981 FOR 90 DAYS. HIS PASSPORT
ALSO SHOWS AN ENTRY STAMP INTO GUATEMALA ON FEBRUARY 19, 1982
AT TALISMAN L CARMEN, SAN MARCOS AND A STAMP SHOWING .
DEPARTURE FROM GUATEMALA ON FEERUARY 20, 1982 AT VALLE.
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ON 2/25/82. IT IS SUMMAEIZED BELOW. THE ORDER IN
WHICH HE MADE HIS DECLARATIONS HAS BEEN ALTERED IN
ORDER. .TO. GIVE THE STATEMENT CHRONOLOGICAL SENSE
5. QUOTE OF GUTIERREZ STATEMENT:
THE. DErLARANT REPORTS THAT HIS FULt NAME IS "LIGDAMIS
ANAXIS..GUTIERREZ ESPINOZA. HE WAS E.:RN INflANAGUAI
.NICARAGUR. SINCE jULY 1978 (AT R!NO1H7? ..RdINT HE SAYS
JANUARY 1979), HE WAS AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF THE
iSANDINISTA MOVIMIENTO ESTUDIANTIL SECONDARIO (HIGH
'....OHOOLNSTUDENT MOVEMENT). HE FOUGHT WITH THE ESEN
IN THESE.ISURE OF THE NICARAGUAN TWON OF JINOTEPE
LIMITEDAFFICIAL USE SECTION 2 OF .R SAN SALyTiDOR 1889
ON 7/5/7- AFTER TAKING THE TWON. GUTIERREZ jOINED ?
THE CIVIL DEFENSE COMMITTEE OF JINDTEPE AND CONTINUED
TO ASSIST THE FSLN WAS EFFORT. AFTER THE SANDINISTA
VICTORY ON 3/24/80 (DATE AS STATED GUTIERREZ
REROFJS THAT HE SPENT FIVE MONTHS TEACHING SANDINISTA
POLITICS. AND IDEOLOGY. HE THEN RERURNED TO SCHOOL
UNTIL JANUARY 1931.
--6. IN jANOARY EHIEFOF THE SANITTA
FOR GUTIERREZ' ZONE -- III ..MER GARCIA?KLATER EALLED
WILMER RAMIREZ BY THE DEELARANT) A- -ORITERED GUTIERREZ
TO ATTEND A GUERRILLA TRAINING SCHOOL IN MEXICO. .
GUTIERREZ IDENTIFIES THE SCHOOL AS "EL INSTITUTO
DE SALTILLO" LOCATED IN ELIAHUILAN MEXICO. HE
TRAVELED TO MEXICEION 2/13/81 IN TAE COMPANY OF TEN
OTHER NICARAGUANS: LUIS ROMONN JAIME PEREZ' OSEAR
ESTTAGENN EDUARDO LAU' EDUARDO :UNICA' ARNOLDO
CONTRERA-' WILLIAM STUN MAR IO BORNORGEN EDUARDO .
ONINTERITSN AND AHAN ROMERO. L14CE IN MEXIAEIN THE
GRONP CONTACTED A NICARAGUAN NAMED "WILLIAM"N WHOM
GNTIERREZ IDENTIFIES AS THE FORMER FSLN COMMANDER
OF THE SOUTHERN FRONT DURING THE NICARAGUAN REVOLUTION..
GNTIERREZ REMAINDED AT THE GUERRILLA. TRAINING SOHDOL
IN MEXICO FROM 281 UNTIL SPETENBER.:1981. HE
REPORTS THAT THERE WERE APPROXIAMTELY 40 TRAINEES AT
THE INSTITUTE. TWENTY WERE SALVADORANS' SIX WERE
MEXCIANS1 AND THE REMAINDER WERE NICARAGNAN. THERE
WERE THREE INSTRUCTORS -- TWO NICARAGUANS AMD ENE
CUBAN. THE STUDENTS WERE THAUGHT SOPHISTICATED
GUERRILLA TAoTICSN INSTRUCTED 1H THE USE OF vARIOLi
WEAPONS AND EXPLOSIVES' AND TRAINEITIN GUERRILLA
LOGISTICS. HE DESCRIBES THE COURSE -AS AN ADVAHCED
GUERRILL TRAINING COURSE. GUTIERREZ-LEARNED THAT
THERE WERE SIMILAR GUERRILLA TRAINING -CAMPS IN
JALISCO' ZACATECAS, DURANGO' AND CHIAPAS ALL IN
MEXICO. HE REPORTS AS WELL THAT THEY WERE RECEIVING
HELP FROM THE PRI.
7. IN JANUARY' 19a2, GUTIERREZ WAS INFORMED BY HIS CHIEF
.INSTRUETOR "WILLIAM" THAT HE WAS TO EE TRANSFERRED
TO EL SALVADOR. HE WAS TO BECOME THE SECONDATN-COMMAND
AT A GUERRILLA CAMP SOMEWHERE IN EASTERN EL SALVADOR.
HIS PRIMARY FUNCTION WOULD BE THE TRAINING OF THE
INEXPERIENCED SALVADORAN GUERRILLAS. GUTIERREZ
DEPARTED FOR EL SALVADOR ON 2/16/82....HE TRAVELED
WITH A GROUP OF NINE OTHER GUERRILAS. THE OTHERS
CARRIED MEXICAN PASSPORTS AND DOCUMENTATION. SEVEN
MEMBERS OF THIS GROUP WERE TO REMAIN IN GUATEMALA TO
ASSIST THE GUATEMALAN GUERRILLA MOVEMENT. GUTIERREZ
AND?TWO OTHER WERE TO CONTINUE ON TO EL SALVADOR.
HE WAS GIVEN A SMALL SUM OF MEXICAN PEOSEAND TOLD
THAT HIS MONTHLY SALARY WOULD BE 300 U.S. DOLLARS.
GUTIERREZ CLAIMS THAT HE THOUGHT THAT HE WOULD
REMAIN IN EL SALVADOR FOR ONLY a SHORT TIME. HE WAS
TO :STAY ONLY SO LONG RS IT TOOK HIM TO TRAIN HIS
GUERRILLA UNIT. HE WAS GIVEN TO EELIEVE THAT THE
FMLN WOULD LAUNCH A MAJOR OFFENSIVE IN FL SALVADOR
ON 3/10/82.
8. GUTIERREZ' ODERS STATED .THAT HE WAS TO MEET A
CONTACT CODE-NAMED "DAVID" OUTSIDE THE TOWN OF
APANECA, AHUACHAPAN DEPARTMENT' EL SALVADOR ON
2/21/82. DAVID' IN TURN' WAS TO GUIDE HIM TO HIS
GUERRILLA UNIT. NOTE: AT THE BEGINNING OG HIS
STATEMENT GUTIERREZ SAID THAT HIS GUERRILLA camp
WAS LOCATED ON THE SRN VICENTE VOLCANO. AT THE
END OF HIS STATEMENT HE CLAIMS THAT HE DOES NOT
KNOW WHERE HE WAS TO SERVE.
9. GUTIERREZ PROVIDES CONSIDERABLE DETAIL ABOUT HIS
SUPPOSED CONTACTS IN EL SALVADOR. "PAID" N HIS
SUPPOSED GUIDE IN WESTERN EL SALVADOR' IS THE DEPUTY
TO A MAN CODE-.NAMED "jORGE". JORGE WORKS IN THE.
.MEXICAN EMBASSY JN: SAN SALVADOp PIP. =41TIEFREz
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.IS THE LIAISON OFFICER BETWEEN THE GUERRILLA TRAINING
CAMPS IN MEXICO AND THE GUERRILA MOVEMENT IN EL
SALVADOR. HE HAS BEEN IN EL SALVADOR SINCE jANUARY
1982. HE HANDLES. THE PASSPORTS AND DOCUMENTS FOR
THE FOREING GUERRILLAS WHO ARE FASSED INTO ANDOUT
OF EL SALVADOR. GUTIERREZ IS UNCLEAR ABOUT WHETHER
HE HAS ACTUALLY MET EITHER "JORGE" OR -DAVID". HE
WAS. CAPTURED AT LAS CHINAMASI AHUACHAPAN DEPARTMENT,
EL SALVADOR ON 2/20/82 -- ONE DRY BEFORE HIS SC;HEDULED
RENDEZVOUS. END QUOTE.
TO. THE STATEMENT IS TAKEN IN LONGHAND. IT IS NOT
SIGNED. .
11. PRESIDENT DUARTE WILL ISSUE A STATEMENT ON THE
SUBJECT MORNING OF MARCH 6.
12. ACTION REUESTED: BY SEPTELN POST IS REQUESTING
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AMEMEASSY GUATEMALAN AMEMBASSY MANAGUA, AMEMBASSY MEXICO CITY AND
ANCONSUL MONTERREY TO FURNISH SPECIFIC INFORMATION Al:
OUTLINED TO DEPARTMENT AND THIS EMBASSY AS .7:DON AS
POSSIBLE. THE SECRETARY OF STATE IS PERSONALLY
INTERESTED IN THIS CASE- HINTON
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