DCI/NIC REGIONAL CONFERENCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88B00443R000200850025-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 5, 2010
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: June 26, 1985
• Content Type: REPORT

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SECRET
NIO/LA
26 June 1985
DCI/NIC REGIONAL CONFERENCE
El Salvador
The insurgent threat of assassination attempts against US personnel
in El Salvador will likely remain serious for the foreseeable future.
-- An insurgent radio broadcast called the killing of the US
Marines an act of "revolutionary justice" and warned that
such actions would continue.
-- While there is no evidence that Havana or Managua were
directly involved in the operation, they undoubtedly are
aware of the insurgents' terrorism campaign.
-- The armed forces of both countries were put on alert after
the killings, probably because of fear of US retaliation.
The Salvadoran insurgent group responsible for the killings, the
PRTC, has a long history of terrorist acts in the capital.
-- The PRTC claimed responsibility for the first terrorist
kidnapping of US citizens in El Salvador, businessmen
McDonald and Bucheli in September 1979.
-- The group has branches throughout Central America, and has
committed other terrorist acts in Honduras and Costa Rica.
-- The Soviets have had close ties to some of the PRTC's
leadership since the early 1960s, and there is evidence of
longstanding Cuban support as well.
The armed wing of the PRTC is one of the smallest of the FMLN
insurgent factions, with perhaps only 700 men.
-- The group has camps in central El Salvador in conjunction
with other factions.
-- Nadia Diaz, the third-highest ranking member of the PRTC, is
currently a captive of the Salvadoran Army.
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