WEEKLY REVIEW FEBRUARY 21, 1975[SANITIZED] - 1975/02/21

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Argentina Declassification Project - The "Dirty War" (1976-83)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02898417
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 23
• Document Creation Date: April 3, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 12, 2019
• Publication Date: February 21, 1975

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� The WEEKLY REVIEW, issued every Friday morning by the
� Office of Current Intelligence, reports and analyzes significant
developments of the week through noon on Thursday. It
� frequently Includes material coordinated with or prepared by
the Office of Economic Research, the Office of Strategic
Research, and the Directorate of Science and Technology.
Topics requiring more comprehensive treatment and therefore
published separately as Special Reports are listed in the
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Army General Anaya announces start of guerrilla operatim .
ARGENTINA: ANTI-GUERRILLA CAMPAIGN
The army has begun a massi, anti-guerrilla
operation in the northern part of the country, but
the only information on its progress is coming
from communiques issued by military spokesmen.
As usual, these reports consist only of the num-
ber of arms caches destroyed and suspected guer-
rillas detained.
Soma 5,000 army troops and fedora! police
are combing the jungles and mountains of
Tucuman Province in search of about 400 mem-
bers of the Marxist Peoples' Revolutionary Army.
At leapt one skirmish occurred last week when
guerrillas ambushed a patrol. One army officer
and three ;nsurgents reportedly were killed in this
clash.
Army spokesmen are stressing that civilians
in the area are cooperating with the troops by
providing information, and one officer stated that
several "foreigners" had been arrested. There has
been no official announcement on how long the
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campaign will last, 1)111 one general crinmented
that the army would stay in the struggle "as long
as it considered necessary." Interior Minister
Rocarnora stated last wool< that tlw counter-in-
surgency operation might mova into other prov-
inc:es.
1 he extremists have responded to the (dm-
by stepping up terrorist actions ill Buenos
Aires. Last weelwnd, at least eight persons were
killed it) a new wave of attacks. Also, in a move to
attract international attention and embarrass the
government, the guerrillas declared a 1,500-
square-mikt area of -Fucuman Province a "liber-
ated area" and have called for international
protection in accordance with the Geneva Con-
vention.
It is doubtful that the army's operation will
turn up much. Humors that it was to occur have
been circulating for several weeks, so that the
guerrillas have had plenty of time to prepare.
Also, the army has not had a great deal of
counter-insurgency training or experience. Unless
small-unit commando tactics are used, the secu-
rity forces arc likely to have little luck in corner-
ing any real guerrillas.
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