Approved for Release: 2018/09/17 C00450342 xCurrent Class- SECRET CurrePt Handling: n/a Document Number: 1976STATE128059 SECRET PAGE 01 STATE 128059 -46 ORIGIN VO-03 -INFO OCT-01 SCA-01 ISO-00 SCCT-01 ARA-06 INSE-00 CIAE-00 FBIE-00 NSAE-00 /012 R DRAFTED BY SCA/VO WFKINGSBURY: EKM APPROVED BY SCA/VO J. DONALD BLEVINS SCAjVO:WTHALL ARA:GLISTER(INF�) S/CCT:EHURWITZ(SUBS) ARA/APU:JSMITH(SUBS) ARA/APU:AEBRAZEAL(SUBS) ARA /BC:RSPACE(SUBS) ARAjBC:RDRISCOLL(INFO) INS:SISENSTEIN (SUBS) DESIRED DISTRIBUTION INS - ADJUDICATIONS, MR. ISENSTEIN _IR250022Z MAY 76 7M SECSTATE WASHDC TO AMEMBASSY.BUENOS AIRES AMEMBASSY 'LA PAZ -AMEMBASSY MONTEVIDEO .INFO AMEMBASSY SANTIAGO SECRETSTATE 128059 VISAS E.O. 11652: XGDS-2 TAGS: CVIS, PINS SUBJECT: VISAS: APPLICABILITY OF SECTION 212(A)(28)(F) TO MEMBERSHIP IN CERTAIN ORGANIZATIONS 062886 1. EMBASSY SANTIAGO HAS SUBMITTED A PROFILE OF THE CHILEAN MOVEMENT OF THE REVOLUNTIONARY LEFT (MIR) ESTABLISHING THAT ORGANIZATION FALLS WITHIN PURVIEW OF SECTION 212(A) (28)(F) OF INA. INFO PROVIDED BY EMBASSY SANTIAGO SHOWS SECRET SECRET Current Class: SECRET pproved for Release. 2018/09/17 C00450342 Approved for Release: 2018/09/17 C00450342 Current Class: SECRET Curre.nt Handling: n/a Document Number: 1976STATE128059 PAGE 02 STATE 128059 'age: Channel: n/a SIGNIFICANT TIES BETWEEN MIR AND PEOPLE'S REVOLUTIONARY ARMY (ERP) AND REVOLUTIONARY COMMUNIST LEAGUE (LCR) OF ARGENTINA, THE REVOLUTIONARY COORDINATING JUNTA (JCR) BASED IN ARGENTINA, THE NATIONAL LIBERATION MOVEMENT (MLN- TUPAMAROS) OF URUGUAY, AND THE NATIONAL LIBERATION ARMY (MN) OF BOLIVIA. THIS INFO WARRANTS FURTHER INVESTIGATION TO DETERMINE WHETHER ERP, LCR, JCR, MLN-TUPAMAROS AND ELN ALSO SHOULD BE FOUND WITHIN PURVIEW OF (28)(F). 2. FOLLOWING ARE PERTINENT PORTIONS OF EMBASSY SANTIAGO'S MIR PROFILE (THIS INFO SHOULD BE TREATED AS NOFORN) : "DURING 1970-1973, THE MIR ESTABLISHED CLOSE TIES WITH � SISTER TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS IN URUGUAY AND ARGENTINA, INAMELY THE ARGENTINE TROTSKYIST PEOPLE'S REVOLUTIONARY ARMY (ERP) AND THE URUGUAYAN NATIONAL LIBERATION MOVE- MENT (MLN-TUPAMAROS). THE MIR PROVIDED ASSISTANCE TO ERP AND MLN MILITANTS WHO WERE MOVING CLANDESTINELY BETWEEN CHILE AND ARGENTINA/URUGUAY. IN AUGUST 1973, THE MIR/ERP/MLN AGREED ON THE INTERNATIONAL UNIFICATION OF THEIR ORGANIZATIONS TO FACILITATE MUTUAL COOPERATION ON THE GOALS OF EACH TERRORIST ORGANIZATION IN ITS RESPECTIVE COUNTRY." "IN EARLY 1974, THE MIR/ERP/MLN AND THE BOLIVIAN NATIONAL LIBERATION ARMY (ELN) ANNOUNCED IN PORTUGAL THAT THEY HAD FORMED A REVOLUTIONARY COORDINATING JUNTA (JCR), BASED IN ARGENTINA. IN JUNE 1974, THE ERP ISSUED A COM- MUNIQUE STATING THAT IT HAD GIVEN $5 MILLION TO ITS SISTER ORGANIZATIONS IN THE JCR. THE MONEY WAS PART OF THE RANSOM FROM THE ERP KIDNAPPING OF A U.S. EXXON EXECU- TIVE. ACCORDING TO A USUALLY RELIABLE SOURCE, THE MIR'S PORTION WAS $3 MILLION.... BETWEEN SEPTEMBER 1974 AND MARCH 1975, CHILEAN SECURITY SERVICES INTERCEPTED OVER U.S. $204,000 BEING BROUGHT TO THE MIR BY ERP COURIERS." "IN JULY 1975, THE JCR DREW UP A PLAN FOR A MAJOR GUERRILLA OPERATION TARGETED AGAINST ARGENTINA, CHILE AND BOLIVIA, WITH THE MIR PORTION TO BE INITIATED IN NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1975 WITH THE ASSASSINATION OF FOUR SECRET SECRET Current Class: SECRET Page: 2 pproved for Release: 2018/09/17 C00450342 Approved for Release: 2018/09/17 C00450342 Current Class: SECRET rrept Handling: n/a Document Number: 1976STATE128059 'PAGE 03 STATE 128059 SENIOR GOVERNMENT PERSONALITIES, WHOSE IDENTITIES WERE GIVEN IN CODE. CHILEAN SECURITY SERVICES UNCOVERED THE PLAN FOLLOWING A MID-OCTOBER CONFRONTATION WITH THREE MIR LEADERS... OTHER DOCUMENTS FOUND AT THE TIME REFERRED TO THE FACT THAT THE JCR HAD SENT THE MIR U.S. $1 MILLION IN OCTOBER 1975, AND ALSO REPORTED ON THE STATE OF READINESS OF THE JCR'S NEW REMOTE-CONTROLLED ROCKET, WHICH WOULD COMPLEMENT THE MACHINE GUNS AND GRENADES ALREADY BEING PRODUCED IN THE ARGENTINE-BASED JCR WEAPONS/AMMUNITION FACTORY." "IN ADDITION TO ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH THE ERP IN THE JCR, THE MIR IS ALSO COLLABORATING WITH THE ARGENTINE REVOLU- TIONARY COMMUNIST LEAGUE (LCR), AN AFFILIATE OF THE TROTSKYIST FOURTH INTERNATIONAL IN FRANCE. IN MID- 1975, THE LCR PROVIDED U.S. $50,000 TO THE MIR, THE FUNDS REPRESENTING PART OF THE RANSOM FROM THE KIDNAPPING OF A PROMINENT ARGENTINE ENGINEER...." 3. THE PRACTICAL EFFECT OF ESTABLISHING THAT AN ORGANI- ZATION COMES WITHIN THE PURVIEW OF (28)(F) IS TO FACI- LITATE A FINDING OF INELIGIBILITY UNDER THAT PARAGRAPH FOR ANY ALIEN KNOWN TO BE AFFILIATED WITH THE ORGANIZA- TION. OTHERWISE, THE ALIEN COULD BE FOUND INELIGIBLE UNDER (28)(F) ONLY BY THE MORE DIFFICULT PROCESS OF ESTABLISHING THAT HIS PERSONAL ACTIVITIES CONSTITUTE ADVOCACY OF THE ACTS DESCRIBED THEREIN. A (28)(F) ORGANIZATION WOULD BE LISTED IN APPA, EXHIBIT I AS A CATEGORY 4 ORGANIZATION UNLESS IT ALSO HAS COMMUNIST CONNECTIONS WARRANTING ANOTHER CATEGORY NUMBER. 4. PLEASE FURNISH ANY OBTAINABLE INFO REGARDING THE LISTED ORGANIZATIONS IN YOUR COUNTRY THAT COULD BE PERTINENT TO A FINDING WHETHER THEY TOO COME WITHIN THE PURVIEW OF (28)(F). THIS INFO SHOULD INCLUDE WHETHER ANYONE AFFILIATING WITH THE ORGANIZATION COULD REASONABLY BE EXPECTED TO BE AWARE OF ITS TERRORIST NATURE. PLEASE ALSO PROVIDE EMBASSY COMMENT ON THE DESIRABILITY OF SUCH A FINDING. SECRET SECRET PAGE 04 STATE 128059 Current Class: SECRET Page: 3 pproved for Release. 2018/09/17 C00450342 Approved for Release: 2018/09/17 C00450342 Current Class: SECRET urre4t Handling: n/a DocuMent Number: 1976STATE128059 5. FOR BUENOS AIRES: PLEASE COMMENT ALSO ON APPROPRIA- TENESS OF APPLYING SIMILAR FINDING TO MONTENEROS. SISCO SECRET Current Class: SECRET PP roved for Release. 2018/09/17 C00450342

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