DOW-QA SALVADORAN GUERRILLAS PROPOSE SIX-HOUR TRUCE THURSDAY E0174

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90M01243R001000300002-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 25, 2013
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: November 30, 1989
• Content Type: MISC

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DOW-QA SALVADORAN GUERRILLAS PROPOSE SIX-HOUR TRUCE THURSDAY
E0174
1 SAN SALVADOR -(DJ)--THE REBEL LEADERSHIP LATE
WEDNESDAY PROPOSED A SIX-HOUR TRUCE THURSDAY MORNING TO
EVACUATE FOREIGNERS FROM THE NEIGHBORHOODS THEY INVADED
EARLY WEDNESDAY TO COMBAT WITH GOVERNMENT FORCES. THERE WAS
NO IMMEDIATE PUBLIC RESPONSE FROM THE GOVERNMENT.
GUERRILLAS BRIEFLY HELD A U.S. EMBASSY OFFICER"S HOME
WEDNESDAY AND TOOK OVER THE JAPANESE EMBASSY, WHICH IS FOUR
BLOCKS FROM THE HOME OF U.S. AMBASSADOR WILLIAM WALKER,
OFFICIALS SAID.
IN A BROADCAST BY THEIR CLANDESTINE RADIO VENCEREMOS,
THE REBELS ALSO SAID THEIR FIGHTERS HAD CAPTURED THE HOMES
OF THREE "OLIGARCHS" BUT FREED THE OCCUPANTS TO SHOW THEY
ARE A "RESPONSIBLE FORCE" FIGHTING FOR "DEMOCRACY."
U.S. EMBASSY SPOKESMAN BARRY JACOBS SAID A CHARTER
FLIGHT MIGHT DEPART THURSDAY WITH EMBASSY DEPENDENTS WHO
WANT TO LEAVE EL SALVADOR, AND EMBASSY PERSONNEL WHO
PLANNED TO GO HOME FOR CHRISTMAS WOULD LEAVE EARLY.
HE SAID SOME DEPENDENTS AND OTHER AMERICANS HAD MOVED
INTO THE HEAVILY FORTIFIED EMBASSY IN DOWNTOWN SAN SALVADOR
TO GET AWAY FROM THE FIGHTING A FEW MILES AWAY.
THE U.S. EMBASSY SAID THERE ARE ABOUT 8,000 TO 10,000
U.S. CITIZENS IN EL SALVADOR AT ANY ONE TIME.
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