ANTI-JUNTA ACTIVITY OUTSIDE OF CHILE

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• Publication Date: August 12, 1974
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Anti Junta Activity Outside of Chile
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DCI/NIO 1766.74
12 August 1974
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I. STRONG INITIAL INTERNATIONAL REACTIONS TO THE
OVERTHROW OF ALLENDE 2
II. EFFORTS OF THE SOVIETS AND THEIR LEFTIST ALLIES TO
ORGANIZE AN INTERNATIONAL OFFENSIVE .............. 4
The World Peace Council 4
Other Soviet-Controlled Organizations ........... 5
Cuban Effort .................................... 6
The Role of the French Left ..................... 7
Activities in Other Western European Countries .. 8
III. EFFORTS OF EUROPEAN TROTSKYIST AND OTHER GROUPS
OF THE RADICAL LEFT .............................. 9
Arab Terrorist Support of the Chilean Cause ..... 10
IV. CHILEAN EXILE GROUPS IN EUROPE AND NORTH AFRICA .. 11
V. CHILEAN RESISTANCE ACTIVITY IN LATIN AMERICA ..... 13
Argentina ...................................... 13
25X6A Peru ............................................ 14
is
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VI. EXILE PROBLEMS ................................... 16
The Communist Party ............................. 16
The Socialist Party ............................. 17
The MIR ......................................... 18
General Problems ................................ 18
VII. FINANCES ......................................... 19
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12 August 1974
ANTI-.JUNTA ACTIVITY OUTSIDE OF CHILE*.
A variety of elements opposed to the Chilean military
regime have found wide sympathy and support abroad. This sup;~ort
has been the most extensive in Western Europe, where the fervor
of popular reaction to the violent overthrow of Allende's
government was particularly strong. Refr 'ees from Chile were.,
welcomed by a number of European and Western Hemisphere
countries, and solidarity committees sprang up, deriving ma?timum
publicity value from stories, many exaggerated, of tortures
and executions by the military government. The whole spectrum
of the Left joined in sponsoring rallies and fund-raising
activities to support this new-found popular cause. The orthodox
Communist parties were joined by various Trotskyist groups in
urging resistance to the Chilean Government. Moscow and
Havana have played both direct and indirect roles in encouraging
such activity, and official support has been forthcoming from
such governments as the Swedish, Finnish, and British. The
efforts of the various groups have caused problems for Chile in
international forums. Deliveries and servicing of military
equipment from Britain have been suspended, and Chile hris had
serious difficulty in securing arms. The resistance groups have
the capacity to cause the Chilean government considerable diffi-
culty and embarrassment, but until they develop an intornal capa-
bility in Chile, they will pose no real threat to the stabilit.y
of the regime.
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I. STRONG INITIAL INTERNATIONAL REACTIONS TO THE OVERTHROW OF
ALLENDE
1. The coup d'etat in Chile on 11 September 1973 came as
a shock to the Left throughout the world, particularly in Europe.
The Marxist and social democratic camps believed, or wanted to
believe, that the Allende government provided proof that there
was a peaceful road to socialism. To the European Socialists
and Communists in power or nudging toward it, the leftist
government in Chile was confirmation that their course was cor-
rect and that violent revolution was unnecessary. They chose to
ignore the economic mismanagement and the resulting political
polarization that was tearing Chile apart. Three years of
Allende' s propaganda had left them unprepared for his sudden
downfall and the paucity of resistance by his supporters.
2. A wave of anger and indignation swept over the continent,
nourished by factual and exaggerated reports of brutal treatment
and executions by the military. Tales of thousands killed and
more thousands imprisoned gained wide acceptance. Although the
Military Junta gradually began to exert control over too zealous
troop commanders, a drum beat campaign had already begun in favor
of Allende supporters who had fled the country, been taken prisoner
or were being sought by the new governmei t. Three days of ter the
coup the first solidarity committee was meeting in Liege, Belgium,
and before the end of the month the World Peace Council (WPC) held
a conference in Helsinki, Finland. Chile replaced Vietnam as the
burning issue for leftist idealists and propagandists. There
were demonstrations in Paris and Vienna, Chilean diplomatic mis-
sions were attacked in Paris and Bonn, and solidarity committees
sprang up all over Europe. Swedish organizations of all kinds
became involved in whipping up sentiment and raising money for
Chilean resistance, and the doors were opened for refugees from
Chile.
3. The coup also produced internal repercussions within the
organized Left in Europe. In Italy it shook delicate political
balances and relations among the Italian political parties, forcing
some to examine basic premises, raising doubts about long-range
plans, and arousing fears of internal divisions. The Ztal ian
Communist Party (PCI) found itself caught between its political
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commitment to the center-left government and its ideological com-
mitment to the extreme Left, which accused the PCI of being Fiof t
or, the Chilean military. 25X1X6
4. The Soviets and Cubans were extremely disappointed and
perturbed by Allendale overthrow.
the Russians had felt a clash was inevitable, but they were sa -
greeebly surprised that only isolated groups and individuals ac-
tually fought against the military coup. The Soviets criticized
the Chilean Communists for failing to meet violence with violence.
They had expected a leftist uprising of major proportions to re-
sist a military takeover. The USSR immediately embarked on the
task of harnessing the forces under its control throughout the
world in order to oust the Junta and restore the Left to power.
The Cubans also reacted vigorously to the coup, which they saw
as closing opportunities for them in South America. Cuba wel.-
corned refugees, started organizing a resistance movement, and
centered a propaganda campaign on appearances of Allende's widow
and daughter.
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II. EFFORTS OF THE SOVIETS AND THEIR LEFTIST ALLIES TO ORGANIZE
AN INTERNATIONAL OFFENSIVE
5. The Soviet-controlled international organizations in the
fields of peace, labor, youth, students, women, and others have
been in the vanguard of the effort by the Soviet Bloc countries
to make Chile a central issue and keep it indefinitely before
world attention. The objectives are to turn public opinion against
the Junta, isolate it in world forums, and eventually bring about
its overthrow. Corollary objectives are to create vehicles for
unified action around a "just cause" by which diverse national and
international organizations and individuals work under Communist
aegis, and to promote the Communist cause at the expense of the
West in general. The October war in the Mideast put a temporary
brake on activity, but after the first of the year full fo-us was
again turned toward Chile.
The World Peace Council
6. Foremost of the Soviet-managed international organizations
engaged in the Chile campaign is the WPC. Less than three weeks
after the coup the WPC sponsored the International Conference of
Solidarity with Chi.Le in Helsinki which set the tone for subsequent
efforts throughout the world. Plans were made to organize a
Popular Unity (UP; apparatus with headquarters in Rome under the
control of the communist Party of Chile (PCCh). The Soviets
wanted Helsinki, not Rome, but were outvoted. They had control
of finances, however, and insisted on retaining Helsinki as the
source of funds. The Finnish CP was named fund custodian, with
the WPC acting as intermediary.* The Soviets, who provide the
bulk of WPC funds, have not been profligate. They withhold funds
when they are displeased at the effic~enev of the Finnish coordina-
ting committee, which was established at the Helsinki conference.
The Soviets want a liaison committee with a broader international
base, but so far they have been unsuccessful in achieving this goal.
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7. The Helsinki conference was followed in October by a
conference in Moscow, completely dominated by the CPSU, which con-
trolle&l, the list of speakers. The organizers expressed satis-
faction with the results at the meeting, and felt that the mili-
tary coup, while dealing a setback in Chile itself, had provided
the Communist camp with a slogan, "Solidarity with Chile" around
which social Democratic and Christian parties could be rallied.
8. In December the WPC was seeking prominent world figures
to serve as jo.lnt sponsors of a Black Book on Chile, and ill February
a meeting was called to set up solidarity conferences in tt;e
Western Hemisphere and Europe for 1974. The WPC also began plan-
ning for an International Commission of Inquiry into the Crimes
of the Chilean Military Junta. The Soviets hoped that the Com-
mission and the Black Book would help focus world attention on
Chile and generate support for an International Liaison Com-
mittee for International Solidarity with Chile. Once these ob-
jectives were attained, the WPC expected the Soviets to begin funding
resistance activities in Europe.
9. The preparatory meeting for the Commission ol Inquiry
held in Helsinki in late March, was completely dominated by
the Soviets. Taking a detente line, they insisted that Chile
was a strictly internal matter, not like Vietnam, and refused
to allow the proceedings to take an anti-US tone. Nikolay Voschinin,
WPC secretary, was pessimistic over prospects for aiding the
resistance because the Junta appeared to be entrenched. Never-
theless, they said aid to the WPC and the opposition movement
would continue. The conference was a disappointment to WPC offi-
cials and the Soviets alike because little was accomplished.
The Commission of Inquiry itself met in Last Berlin in April. A
secretariat was set up and a committee established in Buenos Aires
to provide for contact with Chile.
Other Soviet-Controlled Organizations
10. The World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY), the Wom-
en's International Democratic: Federation (WIDF), and the Inter-
national Union of Students (IUS), sent investigators to Chile
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in the months following N 1lende's overthrow to report on the human
rights issue and arranged programs throughout'the world to call
attention to the Chile story. The WIDF arranged for the appearance
of Allende' s widow at the UN early in 1974. At the World Trade
Union Congress in Bulgaria in October, the Soviets proposed and
achieved the formation of a broadly based trade union committee
of solidarity with Chile. The WFDY was charged with keeping the
issue alive during the first part of 1974 until other international
events could be organized.
Cuban Effort
11. Perhaps surpassing the Soviets in zeal and in the inter-
national scope of their activities against the Chilean Government
are the Cubans, who consider the Chilean Government a prime target,
The coup was a severe setback for the Cubans and closed off oppor-
tunities that had opened up for them in South America. The Cuban
propaganda machine went into high gear immediately after the coup.
On 14 September Cuba was taking soundings at the UN on a possible
Security Council condemnation of the Chilean military, and later
that month the beginnings of a resistance movement were taking
shape in Havana. Refugees arriving in Cuba formed the nucleus of
a solidarity committee, and the Cubans began to sponsor appearances
of the widow and daughters of Allende at events all over the world
12. Cuban intelligence officers play a leading role in the
25X9A1 various support activities for Chilean resistance.
General ly the
Cubans work closely with the Soviets in organizing and carryir?'j
out internatic'.... conferences and organizing propaganda work.
Propaganda spec4alists from both countries met in Havana in May
1974, to map out a year-round campaign against Chile. The Cubans,
like the Soviets, feel they must keep the "-buses" of the Chilean
Junta before world opinion.
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13. Despite this cooperation, there are considerable dif-
ferences of view between the Cubafls and the Soviets on the means
of returning Marxists to power in Chile. The Soviets believe in
relatively peaceful moans -- political manipulation, control of
laboz and other economic forces, infiltration of security forces,
and pressure tactics in international organizations, while the
Cubans are more action-minded and feel force will ke needed to
unseat the Junta. Cuban officials give the definite impression
that they favor revolution, but they are cautious about the time
and place. They feel tho Chilean people must first tire of the
Junta and its policies. The Cubans are not sanguine about the
prospects of converting the Chilean exiles into guerrilla fighters,
but they have tried to induce a combative spirit in them. Some
exiles have been provided training for eventual infiltration into
Chile.
14. In recent months, the upwards of 1,000 Chilean refugees
in Cuba have caused problems for the government. They are divided
along party and ideological lines much as they were in Chile, with
the Communists disputing with the moderate Socialists and neither
talking to the extremist elements. Most are generally unhappy
about their lot in Cuba. Although they are provided with housing
and some have work, they feel isolated and cut off from meaningful
political activity. (Something similar has occurred in the large
Chilean contingent in East Germany.)
The Role of the French Left
15. In the spring of 1974, the French Communist Party (PCF),
at the urging of the CPSU, took charge of accelerating joint Com-
munist-Socialist actions in solidarity with the Chilean leftists.
The PCF convoked a meeting of seven French leftist organizations
in March 1974, and about the same time learned from the French
Socialist Party (PSF) that nearly all the European Social Demo-
cratic parties were prepared to participate with the Communists
in a unified campaign to promote resistance to the Junta. The
PCF leaders recognized at once that this meant a single, joint
front could be organized which in their view would have great
historical significance. It would not only damage the Chilean
Junta, but promote Communist-Socialist cooperation in Europe.
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16. The PCF, the PSF, and the other French leftist organizations
called a European Solidarity Conference in Paris fir 6 and 7 July
with an agenda limited to four issues: illegality of the Junta,
an end to the state, of war, an end to oppression, and restoration
of full civil rights in Chile. The strict agenda reflected a
decision to avoid contentious debate. Three hundred delegates
from East European Communist Parties and Western European Communist,
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Socialist, and Social Democratic parties attended the meet
Francois Mitterand of the PSF was the principal driving force be-
hind the meeting and probably the one most responsible for over-
coming Socialist and Social Democratic resistance to meeting with
the Communists. Italian Social Democrats and the British Labour
Party were represented, along with Socialist parties from Belgium,
Danmark, Spain, Sweden, Finland, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, and
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pleased with the resu s nference and soon afterward be-
gan searching for ways to rally the Left around another issue and
thus solidify the broad front that had been brought together on
the popular Chile theme.
1.7. The speed with which the leftwin7 organizations in
Europe reacted to the Chile coup is exemplified by the Paris based
Curial Apparatus, a support group for national liberation move-
ments, with suspected Soviet backing, with headquarters in Paris.
Before the end of September Henri Curial had begun to formulate
a clandestine program to oppose the Military Junta. Curiel is
involved iii collecting funds, setting up support committees,
dispatching agents to Chile, and training a few selected individuals
in guerrilla warfare. The Curiel program calls for recruiting
activists for training in France, providing exiled activists living
near Chile's borders with the major portion of their funds, and
organizing an international committee to plan clandestine actions.
Some of the funds Curiel has collected came from the World Council
of Churches.
Activities in Other Western European Countries
18. In June 1974 the peace forces in Belgium were engaged in
making preparations for a week of solidarity with Chile scheduled
for September. In Portugal, plans were being formed during July
for a world solidarity conference of workers to be held in Lisbon
in September.
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III., EFFORTS OF EUROPEAN TROTSKYIST AND OTHER GROUPS OF THE
RADICAL LEFT
19., The various groups making up the radical European Left
have their on Chile solidarity programs which both complement
and compete with the Soviet and Cuban-sponsored programs. The
most, important and active groups are the Trotskyist Fourth Inter-
national (FI) and the Continuous Struggle (Lotta Continua -- LC)
of Italy.
20. The Trotskyist movement is involved with Chilean re-
sistance in several countries. Trotskyist organizations, like
the Communist League, dominate the French Committee of Support
for the Revolutionary Struggle of the Chilean People, formed
shortly after 11 September. The League's objectives are to de-
velop and popularize aid to the resistance and prolong the debate
on the Allende experience. It organizes material and financial
support, arranges pamphleteering, and conduct rallies. There
are two funds, one for aiding refugees, the other for the pur-
chase of arms and supplies. The committee has Cuban support and
is partial to the Chilean Movement of the Revolutionary Left
(MIR). It has clashed with the Democratic Chile Committee in Rome
over the latter's preference for dividing funds according to
the Chilean parties' importance -- i.e., their electoral showing.
21. The FI, headquartered in Brussels, sent an agent to
Argentina in February 1974 with the ambitious mission of or-
ganizing "support commandos" for the Chilean resistance and
coordinating the efforts of the Peronist and Marxist left. The
FT has connections with the Argentine Trotskyist terrorist groups
but is enmeshed in intrigues against one of them, the Santucho
faction of the Peoples Revolutionary Army (ERP).. The Chilean
section of the FI apparently suffered heavy losses during the
military coup, but other Trotskyists, not affiliated with the
FI, are free inside Chile and cooperating with the MIR.
22,. The Trotskyist effort in Italy is aided by the LC and
is centered in the Committee for Support of Chilean Resistance,
with offices in Rome and Milan. Danilo Trelles Fernandez, an
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Uruguayan motion picture producer,, is the Rome coordiratnr. The
principal objective is to raise support for the MIR, under the
slogan of "Arms for the MIR." The LC collected $115,000 after
the coup and sent it to Cuba. The Cubans a,'t as distributing agents.
The LC helped organize a conference of Chilean support committees
in Frankfurt from 24-to 27 April, under the auspices of the
Trotskyist controlled European Coordinating Committee for Com-
mittees of Support for the Struggle of the Chilean People.
Chilean, Italian, Spanish, Irish, Danish and German groups par-
ticipated. A good many groups, but not all, were in favor of col-
lecting money to buy weapons; for the MIR. Some 3,000 people
demonstrated at the close of the conference. The Spanish dele-
gates represented Trotskyist-controlled committees in Madrid and
Barcelona.
Arab Terrorist Support of The Chilean Cause
23. In July the Chilean Ambassador to Lebanon, General Al-
fredo Canales, was gunned down in his Beirut apartment house in
an attempted assassination by Lebanese terrorists sympathetic to
the exile cause. The perpetrators announced that the objective
of the attack was to emphasize the struggle of the third world
arainst American "imperialism."
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IV. CHILEAN EXILE GROUPS IN EUROPE AND NORTH A1'RICA
24. The Popular Unity forces in exile have been in agree-
ment from the beginning that their primary objective in to over-
throw the Military Junta and rdturn to power. Their ideas on
how to achieve this objective and on the kind of society and
government they want vary, but they have no disagreement on the
primary task. To this and they have sot up centers for resist-
ance in several world capitals.
25. Rome is the headquarters for UP activities in curope
and Havana handles North and South America. The Rome offices
or Rome Committee, as it is sometimes called, combines two
organizations, Democratic Chile (DC) and the Salvador Allende
Association (SAA). The DC, a so-called information and press
agency, represents the UP in Europe and has the backing of the
Soviets, the Cubans, the major Italian leftist parties, includ-
ing t;ie PCI and the PSI, and most Chilean refugees. It promoter
resistance to the Chilean government, raises funds, aids refugees,
and pressures the Italian Government to withhold recognition
of the Chilean Government. It has also attempted to form an
interriationnl brigade to fight in Chile, but without success.
The DC is headed by Jorge Arrate, the former head of the Chilean
Copper Corporation. Arrate spent several months in Argentina
before going to Italy. The Cuban Embassy takes a close interest
in the DC and has almost daily contact with it.
26. The SAA, located at the same address, is composed of
Italian leftists and run principally by the PCI. It has the task
of coordinating Chilean-oriented activities of the Italian
left and aiding refugees. The PCI and the PSI are satisfied with
the work of the Association., which they believe is the best of
its kind in Europe. However, the PCI feels the PSI should contri-
bute more. The Italian Government, the Christian Democratic
Party, and Olivetti enterprises have provided support to the
Association.
27. The Chilean Communist leaders in Moscow, led by Volodia
Teltelboirn and Manuel Cantero, head the Moscow office of the UP
which is supported by the Soviet Solidarity Committee under
Stepan Shalayev, secretary of the Soviet Central Council of
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Trade tiniona. Little in known of the artivi.ticsa of thin .itnup.
but thcsy t114 rpccivo a placlgo or nutipott from cvrai 1 4L14'ret in
Harsh
29. The Algiori Committop has an offk o -'lth rlr>aa to
t%g;' dozen People, and pn )oyrs the aup1x)rt of 'tho Algor inn i oovetn--
ment. It to Chiefly intoroatod in prorrotinq rovoltItlon in
Chile and in engaged in tha pr.cctiro$ont or putomat.ie voa;:rrlt,a in
Yugonlavin and C choglovakin. Tb@ comriti.ttap, bnvcvor, conning'
Primarily of intollpet.ua1 a and is not fit for quorr i l la war -
faro.. The Algeri_+nn rinnatpd at laant (UJ) S',O,OOO to thin group
and may have donated a50,000 more. The hand of tho eu-m titt.ae
is I4uarclo flalum, forror Chilean Ambaaaador to Alt7oria. vb() fa
repttionaibl2 for all of ;ioYth Africa, anti ha maintains rnntaCt vi:h
tho dome Committee. !1u hap Claimg(I that tharp va? a phiI-urpnt
of t*tfoll arms in t3aplep (Pource unknnwn a;xi probably dpat ino+i for
th.' H112 or 5ocialiut Pxtraminta), but atoragp and franc;?nrt. pre-
gented problemp and the Pxi.laa warp lookinn to 1-he Cubans anri
,;-)vi?t $ for help.
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2_l, With the excoptlon of Argohtina, and pnaalhly t4ox$Co,
t'hi ).can reaiatance activity throughout tha. 1 ataro Honinphorn
hac been Pr,:atte.-Ar1 and inoffcctive. Tho prgvalenca of military
and q t. ron j`*an rerl $Poq t.)ortivgt )sit Latin Air ica cnntt ibUten
markof)y tr) that rirfirnilt_iat4 of tha raaiatafC_p t4r)ver~ent. In
dpvoIopinrl nuplx)rt aetlvit,y and operational Momentum in the
ticr~inphar~. I;frnrta to orianire a hets~laphatQ viclo aoAitlartt-y
e(mraranca have split t ararl, and the floviatg c;tvr'i(jw1 in June to
9attla For rg7.ior-al crahf ar4nCaft. They are al#r) puohinrj lot a
remat. inr.J of ).at_ in Ater ican Coty- nunist Part ien in Havana at the
end of 1174 to (1a.a1 with Chile and other topic_P, htit_ the, Cuhanp
have Pl)rme p i p'J i v i h'1,e a l w) s i t the idea.
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1tt. Atr3antina'a 'JO-r raphir proximity and un? II recantly+.
)oititiral racpt)ti;+ity ha:>o provided a good bane for oxilo oparat_Ionp.
Alt.hr,z.irjl) tha Anrloe large;ant a formidable h.4rricr try en s:nicat_i n,
tharc arc many' ien)ai-ad haaccec w;-Nicy can t u,acl n1i!"4:apKflilly
by c.--'tiricre and infi ltratorn aloe{.I t)ta long int_etnat_ir~tial t n~inrlary
t twee ArrJant ina and Chile. Probably the Pont fn -nrablo factor
for the Chilean ex i l Ag hap tin the Pi)ccegp of the Arn Ant ina
ext.roml nt orr.]anizat i-np in cL trying o:.it ki(Inap-ranar';-i olycrat it nR,
which ha?.c ?yipldcrl oxpr t l nca, cki11, and )na largo a"?~tintn of ,>l% t'.
11 U. sherd are t hn ;Lgn4a of Chi li ana in At{sprit ina, Pfv, -
ept r:~at_ac Put the n1;rbar At* high an 14,000. They are rsrn)ip-4
principally in ituar,r,e Airep. hendo7a, talta, and around tlariloche.
In tl.e waekc the coup they orhaniged tha:~+celvan into
two rival rtroupp, or,- rodarat?, one radical. The are the Patr in', ie
- >. .. t ~ ? e r res. I 1 t ear-~r_~ rr~Cis *.s r 1. as.~.. a~ 1 / i T+ a`_. 27 . WL3'-.i ~ i A {.
i;c?cial iptn. Aadicalp. and memborp of the modaratc fart ion of tl e
llnit.acl i'ol-Ail ar Ac t I i )4c-vo nt (t4APll) : and the Chilean Pevol~st i unary
Pec ietance {RA-C). Cr:-11r?Pad of the h IA and the radical winrlP of the
nclniiPt Party and ?!Mii. (It is not aurpriping that t he UP Ir.
exile hap continu l Shp traditional c:ivipion tatwpan ~nc'arat.an and
oxtrcv';iptq that exiPtc4 in Chile.)
32. In late 1'! 1, the rrPC watt rot rteJ to ponPePC Pcima '~O
r if ten, plenty of orgy, and contacts with the Soviet and Cuban
hita9tiieP. Titre APC t'.an received money and ar-ma from the Argent inn
extremist organizations. The Santucho faction of the IPP is allied
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with the 14th and tPCent_ly provided 1-0, with tJi; $3 mitt ion from
the tane'nm of a US oil Company official.. It ban furni.rahPt1 other
support services, ouch an documentation for H114 p"rRonnel, and hall
agreed to turn over its weaponts Cacheq in Chile.
33, The r:DI' l q the anct>nr ortiani ration of the ft e(1g1 inrl but
pot.ent_ially dan'jprouq Latin American Pevalutionary Coor.dinat_ing
Croup, which includoq the Chilean 1,41k, the Uruguayan Tvpatnaroq
(Mt,.*), the Dtolivian National t,iheratinn Army ttt.,!t), and 1.1Aaihly
one or ttOte Peruvian '4tOupa. The Cubans are behind thie inter-
national effort, and In Mario 4anturho, they have a gicrrilla
fighter of Intel 1 igence and energy, wtxo probably env i e ions himppl f
an the auccPapnr to Che Guevara.
34. The PCCh d-cirded shout the beginning of 1974 that much
of the work of rer;ruankxinq it# comr+Inn1onp and military apparatus
could be done mote efficiently and securely outside the country.
It therefore bbQgan pendinq selected meshes to Argentina and
Peru to meet and make pl ana, and then retur,i home to impl eii nt.
thorn. Ono of the l.argant concentrat iont3 of PCCh tnc'ml *re ip in
Mendota, where 300 youn-I party mat%berp are living and wxirkinfi.
There are MIA an3 ;-ocial int. exiled in Menl,loxa alno, but they are
largely inaCtivp.
3 '). The t.tincolent political conditions in ArgPntina ha.'-
probably spry-Prl t n d ,c*tract governnpnt attention away from t.hp
Chilean exiled, hut this situation may not last ton long1.
Pefugeee in ttuenoc Aires. who number about 1.800, recently
protepted a winigtry of Interior order designed to force tl;pt~
out of the capital into the provinces. Many plan to leave, Ar-
q nt.Ina. Although the order wars ieaued prior to 4`eron'e death,
there a t evi.te.."'^ to date that the ne resvirv p1a- a to reverna
the trend toward t , rhten inq retatr is t ions on Chi lean exiles.
Peru
36. tlwin-ri to It proximity to Chile, Peru preaento a
natural haven for r'aiistance fightora. 14owevnr, tennion be-
tween the two gw.'Prnr entn has actually prevented the Left from
exploitinr2 i`eru'R gPortraphical position and leftist leanings.
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oncaunp of Peru' A concern over Chi lean intent ions, the gOVerr.-
ment watches the Chi leann in If -m miclnt rlocely and han tak_on
atni-n to novorely limit the number of r.efugn'n permit_tnd to
stay. Thus, exi-1on must op rate clandintinely to avoid amhar-
ranRinq and antnurini?inq the Peruvian authoritios. Tiere are
irnlicat_ionn thct they have hoqun to do thin althouch on a
l imit_nd Acale, Peru In the Alen of the International .,ol idarity+
(ommippion, through which tinancinl aid to the PCI h in funne1Acl.
Act ivit'* l:lu h~r~ in Latin America
.19 . There have been attacks on Chilean dilplomatic tnicuinnn
in 1:1 i-alvador and Peru. The t=or.r3nint Youth of Colombia in
plannin