THE PHILIPPINES COMMUNIST INSURGENTS: RELATIONS WITH MANAGUA

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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 6, 2012
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: July 21, 1988
• Content Type: MISC

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21 July 1988
The Philippines Communist Insurgents:
Relations with Managua
The 21 July Washington Times' article is generally accurate in describing the
relationship between the Communist Party of the Philippines and Nicaragua, but
exaggerates prospects for Sandinista military assistance to the CPP.
--The CPP has cast a broad net in its search for foreign patrons willing to provide
arms and other assistance and has sent representatives to Nicaragua several times
since the early 1980s
suggests that the CPP is primarily interested in
Nicaraguan medical and propaganda assistance.
shows, for example, that the CPP, for unknown reasons, failed to follow up
Sandinista offers in late 1985 for military training and other unspecified military
aid.
The CPP established party-to-party relations with the Sandinistas earlier this
year, and senior CPP officials who visited Managua to formalize party-to-party ties
expressed serious reservations about the Nicaraguan revolution
--The insurgents described their Nicaraguan counterparts as ideologically shallow
and unnecessarily exploiting the population.
it was unstructured and
inconsistent, and apparently convinced CPP leaders not to send additional cadre to
Managua for similar courses.
--Nevertheless, we expect the CPP to maintain a representative in Managua
primarily to establish contact with other leftist Latin American groups.
Several factors, including resource constraints in most potential Latin American
donors and the distance between the Philippines and Latin America, makes it unlikely
that the CPP would receive a clandestine shipment of arms directly from the region
except perhaps from Havana, with which the CPP also recently established
party-to-party ties.
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--During their meeting with CPP leaders earlier this year, the Cubans apparently
raised insurgent hopes for an arms transfer by suggesting that further discussions
be held in North Korea; P'yongyang reportedly agreed last year to provide the CPP
arms but so far has yet to deliver any as a result of the insurgents' inability to
resolve logistic and security problems.
--The CPP's only military relationship in Latin America is with Salvadoran rebels,
who reportedly promised the CPP explosives and clandestine radio training earlier
this year but no arms.
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