TERRORISM

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• Publication Date: August 5, 1985
• Content Type: MEMO

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5 August 1985
Executive Registry
85- 3059
MEMORANDUM FOR: National Intelligence Officer for Counterterrorism
FROM: Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT: Terrorism
See Santiago You may have it on your production schedule
but I think we need as soon as possible a complete and comprehensive
picture of terrorism in Latin America which deals with what this cable
from Ambassador Theberge in Chile so nicely conveys the flavor of.
Wi iam J. Casey
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SU9JECT$ CHILEI TERRORIST VIOLENCE AGAINST US CITIZENS AND PROPERTY
to SECRET-WNINTEL-NOFORN-NOCONTACT.ORCON-FNTIPF TEXT.
2. ON JULY 19 A CAR ROw9 WITH OVER 40 KILOS OF
EXPLOSIVES WAS DETONATED IMM FRONT OF THE US CONSULATE
IN SANTIAGO AT APPROXIMATELY 2100 HOURS. IT DID,
DAMAGE TO THE CONSULATE AND TEN ADJOINING Rt1TL.r)TNGS.
IT KILLED ONF CHILEAN WOUNDED TWO POLICFMENT, AND TWO
OTHER CHILEANS. FORTUNATELY, NO US CITIZENS WERE
HARMED. THIS BOMBING WAS CLEARLY INTENDED TO BE PERCEIVED
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AS AN ATTACK ON THE US CONSULATE. PWONE CALLS ATTQIQUTFD
TO 1HE MANUEL RODRIGIIEZ PATRIOTIC FRON1 (MQPF). AN
ARMED TERRORIST UNIT OF THE CHILEAN COMMUNIST PARTY
(PCCW). WERE RECEIVED RY THE POLICE AND NEWS SERVICES.
THESE EAPLY WAQNINGS MAY HAVE BEEN INTENDED TO APING
THE POLICE TO THE SITE OF THE A0"RTNG IN nRDEP TO KILL
OR *11UND POLICE OFFTCFRS.
SU SEQUENT TO THE EXPLOSTTON. CONFIRMATION MAS RECEIVED
CIF THE MPDF?S RESPONSIBILITY FOP THE ROMRIG (SEE
TDFIROR-3151-----RS HCS-121A7.)
3, FOUNDED IN 19839 THE MQPF IS ANOTHER LINK IN A
GEJOaING TERRORIST NETWORK SPONSORED RY CUFIA. NICARAGUA
AND THE SOVIET UNION IN THE WFSTEQN HEMISPHERE, THE
MPQF RECEIVES TRAINING AND OTHER SUPPORT FROM CUBA. *HTCH
IS OF COUSE A CLOSE ALLY OF NICARAGUA'S SANDINISTA
GOVERNMENT. THE MPDF OPERATES IN COORDINATION WITH THE
MARXISTaLENINIST MOVEMENT OF THE REVOLUTIONARY LEFT (MIR).
A TERRORIST FACTION WITH FOREIGN HEADQUARTERS IN HAVANA.
THE MIR. IN TURN. HAS RECEIVED TRAINING IN CUBA. LIBYA
AND ELSWEHWEPE. USUALLY BY CUBAN INSTRUCTORS. THE MQPF
IS THE TERRORIST ARM OF THE 000-MOSCOW PCCH. WHOSE
PARTY LEADER. LUIS COVALAN. LIVES IN MOSCOW. THE PCCH.
ONE nF THE MOST SERVILE PRO-MOSCOW PARTIES IN TPE WORLD.
WES FOLLO*ED THE SOVIET LINE WITHOUT DEVIATION FOR HALF
A CENTRY. THUS. IN THE CASE OF CHILE AS TN OTHER
COUNTRIES IN LATIN AMERICA. THE LOCAL TERRORISTS ARE
MARXISM-LFNINTST IN IDEOLOGY. AND RECEIVE TRAINING
FINANCIAL SUPPORT. AND POLITICAL GUIDANCE FROM CUBA AND
THE USSR. THIS TERRORIST NETWORK IN CHILE ALSO HAS
EXTENSIVE EXTPA-HFMISPHERE SUPPORTERS SUCH AS LIBYA.
ALGFRIA. FRANCE (MITTERAND?S SOCIALIST GOVERNMENT HAS
GIVEN MORAL. POLITICAL AND SAFEHAVEN?SUPPORT TO THE MIR
IN DECENT YEARS). SPAIN'S ETA. THE POLO AND SOVIET BLOC
COUNTRIES. THE TERRORIST NETWORK IN LATIN AMERICA IS
CENTERED IN CUBA. AND INCREASINGLY NICARAGUA. AND- THE
UNITED STATES. ITS CITIZENS AND PROPERTY. APF BEING TARC,ETTED
IN CHILE AS THEY ARE ELSE.HERE.
4. FUQTHFPMnQF. FIDEL CASTRO HAS STEPPED 11P THE NUMBER
OF CHILEAN TEPWOPTSTS BEING TRAINED TN C11RA AND THIRD
COUNTRIES (LIKE LIBYA AND ALGFRIA) IN THE PAST TWO YEARS
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THEY APE PETUPNING TO CHILE, AUGMENTING THE POOL OF
PROFESSIONALLY TRAINFD TEPOORTSTS AT *nPK. IT IS.
THEoEFnuE, IJOT SUPRISIvr, THAT TEPPOPIST INCIDENTS HAVE
UUAOPURLFD IN 1904 COMPARED TO 100?, IN ADOITTnN THE
MIR AND MPPF HAVE INCPEASEn THE LFVEL OF VInLFNCE (CAP ROMPS
AND ROCKETS APE NOW IN USE. WHEREAS THEY WFPF NOT EMPLOYED
Ton AND THREE YEARS AGO) DIRECTED AT THE CHILEAN GOVEPNMENT
AND OTHEW TARGETS. FINALLY, THE TADGFTTIFNG OF U.S.
GOVT QUASI-OFFICTAL (LIKE RTNATIONAL CULTUPAI_ CENTERS).
AND PRIVATE INSTALLATIONS (I.I.S. COMPANIES, THE Mr)RMnN
CHRUCH, HANKS AND THE LIKE) WAS ALSO IINOEWGOIJE A OIIANTT-
TATTVE LEAP IN THE PAST TWO YEARS, U.S.-PELATEO
INSTALLATIONS WERE IN SURJFCT OF ONE TERRORIST TNCTOFNT
IN 1982, FIVE IN 19039 FTFTFEN IN 1994 ANI5 NINETEEN THUS
FAR IN 1085. THE CAP ROMATNG IN FRONT OF THE II.S.
CONSULATE IN SANTIAGO IS ONLY THE MOST PECENT EVENT IN A L
TREND TOWARDS GREATER FOCUS ON U.S. INSTALLATIONS IN
CHILE. WE STRONGLY EXPECT THAT THIS TPEND PILL CONTINUE
WE CAN ALSO ANTICIPATE AN INCREASE IN NICARAGUAN SUPPORT
FOP9 AND COORDINATION OF, TERRORIST STRIKES AGAINST U.S.
PERSONNEL AND INSTALLATIONS TN THE FUTURE, AS NICARAGUA'S
MAPXIST-LENINIST REGIME 5ECr1ME MORE CLOSELY INTEGRATED
INTO THE NETWORK OF TERRORIST STATES HOSTILE Tn'THE
UNITED STATES.
5. CUBAN AND SOVIET-SUPPORTED TERRORISM IN CHILE AND
ELSE*HERF WILL CONTINUE AND THER IS NO REASON WHY IT
SHOULA NOT. VIOLENT ATTACKS AGAINST U.S. GOVE B1IILDINGS,
THE ASSASSINATION OF U.S. DIPLOMATS AND MAPINES, THE
KIDNAPPING AND MURDER OF U.S. OFFICIALS AND CITIZENS
IN LATIN AMERICAN INDEED IN THE ENTIRE WORLD. APE
VIRTUALLY COST-FREE TO TERRORIST STATES LIKE CUBA AN
LIiYA, AND THE TERRORIST WHOM THEY TRAIN, ARM AND
FINANCE. TERRORISTS RUN THE DISK OF BEING KILLED OR
CAPTURED BY LOCAL SECRUTTY FORCES AUT THEY RE SECURE IN
THE KNOWLEDTE THAT NEITHER THE UNITED STATES NOR OTHER
COUNTRIES (1SREAL EXERTED) WILL TAKE ANY FORCEFUL
ACTION AGAINST THEM OR THEIR FOREIGN SUPPORT BASES. THIS
SITUATION. AS PRESIDENT REAGAN AND SECRETARYSHIILTZ WAVE
POINTED OUT, IS INTOLERABLE. WE MUST CHANGE THIS
REALITY. AND SOON.
6. THE DEFENSIVE MEASURES BEING TAKEN AT THIS AND OTHER
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EMBASSIES IN THE WFSTERN NF0 ISPHERE APE IMPORTANT HUT
THEY DU NOTHING TO DOUNTEP OR REVERSE THE RISING
TERRORIST TWFND AND TARGETTING OF U.S. OFFICIALS AND
PROPFQTY. THE TRADITIONAL PASSIVE APPROACH TOWARDS TTE
EXPANDING TERRORIST NETWORK AND TERRORIST STATFS DOES
NOTHING TO DISCOURAGE TERRORIS. AS WE HAVE SEEN OVER
THE PAST DECADE OR MORE, DEFENSIVE ACTION DOES NOT, IN
THE LONG PUN. PROVIDE THE DESIRED GREATER SECURITY FOP
EMBASSY PEROONNEL AND PROPERTY. IT PROVIDES THE
TEMPORARY ILLUSION, NOT THE REALITY OF GREATER-SAFETY.
7. A SEPRATE. MORE DETAILED TELEGRAM FOLLOWS ENUMERATING
SPECIFIC EMBASSY PEOUIREMENTS FOR ADDITIONAL SECURITY
PERSONNEL AND EQUIPMENT WHICH WILL BE REAUTRED TO
IMPLFMENT THE ENHANCED SECURITY PROGRAMS AND PROCEDURES
NEEDED TO COUNTER THE INCREASED THREAT. WE APPRECIATE
THE DEPARTMENT'S SUPPORT FOR POST SECURITY IN THE
PAS AND WE URGE THAT IT PROVIDE THE EMBASSY WITH THE
REQUIRED RESOURCES NOW. HOWEVER, DEFENSIVE ACTIONS
MUST BE COMBINED WITH DIRECT ACTION AGAINST TERRORIST
STATES (THE DESTRUCTION OF GUERRILLA TRAINING CAMPS,
FOR EXAMPLE) STRIKES AGAINST THE TERRORIST INFRASTPUCT-
URF(DISRUDT COMMUNICATIONS. SEIZURE AND TRIAL OF
TERRORISTS INVOLVED IN CRIMES AGAINST TTE UNITED STATES),
AND ANTI-TERRORIST ASSISTANCE TO FRIENDLY COUNTREES.
U.S. S01ECI-AL FORCES PROVIDED INVALUABLE ASSISTANCT TO
THE BOLIVIAN ARMY WHICH LEO TO THE CAPTURE OF
CHE GUENRA IN BOLIVIA IN 1968. COOPERATION WITH
SELECTED. FRIENDLY COUNTRIES IN THE TARGETTING OF
THE LEADERS OF TERRORIST ANOGUERRILLA GROUPS WOULD RE
A SALUTARY WARNING THAT THOSE INVOLVED IN ASSASSINATIONS
AND OTHER VIOLENCE WHICH AFFECTS U.S. INTERESTS ARE NOT
IMMUNE FROM RETRIBUTION, AS THEY HAVE BEEN UP TO NOW.
Be IN SHORT, A SWITHCH FROM A LARGELY DEFENSIVE TO A
JOINT DEFENSIVE/OFFENSIVE STRATEGY AGAINST INTERNATIONAL
TERRORISM IS TRAGICALLY OVERDUE AND ESSENTIAL IF WE
WISH TO LIVE IN RELATIVE TRANQUILITY IN OtJR OWNCOUNTRY
AND IN THIS HEMISPEPE. TNEREDGE
ENM. Of MESSAGE S.ECRFT
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