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• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005630060
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: June 24, 2015
• Document Release Date: June 14, 2011
• Case Number: F-2010-00505
• Publication Date: March 5, 1982

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DATE: 05-25-2011
National Intelligence Daily
Friday
5 March 1982
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 led the coup attempt last year.
Leaders of the principal political parties have
generally cooperated to keep the trial of the plotters
from becoming a 'partisan issue. Written statements
submitted by the two most prominent defendants--Generals
Armada and Mi.lans del Bosch--disagree on which of them
Comment: The crucial moments in the trial will
arrive when the court attempts to resolve the contradic-
tions between the defendants' statements. The testimony
so far appears to have averted the greatest danger--
branding the King with a charge of first encouraging
and then betraying the coup. That accusation would not
be credible without support from Armada--a longtime close
5 March 1982