GUERRILLA GROUP ATTACKS VENEZUELAN BORDER POST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP08C01297R000700030074-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 25, 2012
• Sequence Number: 74
• Publication Date: September 19, 1983
• Content Type: CABLE

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SUBJECT: rGUERRILLA GROUP ATTACKS VENEZUELAN BORDER POSTii
1. THE GOV HAS ANNOUNCED THAT A COLOMBIAN GUERRILLA BAN%
ATTACKED A VENEZUELAN BORDER POST THE NIGHT OF SEPTEM-Jr-
X.1,3ER 17. ONE MEMBER OF THE ELEVEN-MAN NATIONAL GUARDuiT
MANNING THE POST REPORTEDLY WAS KILLED, EIGHT 0THERS1
NOUNDED. THE GOVERNMENT'S COMMUNIQUE CLAIMS THAT TH1
tUERRILla GROUP IS PART OF THE NATIONAL LIBERATION ARM12
1(ELN) OPERATING IN COLOMBIA. ACCORDING TO THE PRESS,
IT IDENTIFIEEFITSELF AS GUERRILLA FRONT, CELL "DOMINGO
LAIN SAEZ," FOUNDED ON SEPTEMBER 4, 1980 IN ARAUCO,
COLOMBIA. ALSO ACCORDING TO THE PRESS, THE INSURGENTS
PAINTED SIGNS OF THE NATIONAL LIBERATION ARMY AND THE
BANDERA ROJA AND LEFT PAMPHLETS ATTACKING BETANCUR,
HERRERA AND THE US. THE FRONTIER POSIT-NAMED cuTuFr779
05tATED IN THE UPPER APURE REGION, TWO MILES FROM THEII
eARAUCA RIVER, WHICH FORMS THE_BORDER WITH COLOMBIAF?THE
GOV STATED THAT IT WAS SEEKING COLOMBIAN COOPERATION,
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UNDER THE AGREEMENT OF GUASDUALITO, FOR THE SEARCH AND
DESTRUCTION OF THE GUERRILLA UNIT.
2. ?THE MISSION IS SEEKING ADDITIONAL DETAILS FROM THE
AUTHORITIES. MOON
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