WEEKLY SITUATION REPORT ON INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM APRIL 1976[SANITIZED] - 1976/04/06

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Keywords: TERRORISM
• Collection: Argentina Declassification Project - The "Dirty War" (1976-83)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02630604
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• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 101
• Document Creation Date: April 3, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 12, 2019
• Publication Date: April 6, 1976

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Targets: U.S. EMBASSY
Place: Argentina
Date: April 1976
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The "Red Brigade of Workers
Power" is planning a terrorist
campaign beginning 2 April
against several targets, one
of which is the U.S. mission
in Argentina
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about the above group, but
it is believed to have killed
some Buenos Aires policemen
in recent days.)
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The mother of a U.S. citizen
residing in Cordoba received
an extortion threat on 26
January when an unidentified
caller threatened that her
daughter would be killed if
he were not paid $50,000 by
24 April. The mother has only
recently advised authorities
in the U.S. of this threat.
The State Department considers
this a serious threat and
has informed the embassy in
Buenos Aires.
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Raid (Page 4)
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JCR Policy Meeting Interrupted By Argentine Police Raid
On 29 March the Argentine federal police conducted a
raid on an estate in Moreno, Buenos Aires province, and
interrupted a top-level policy conference of the Revolu-
tionary Coordinating Junta (JCR). The conference, which
began on 27 March and was scheduled to end on 30 or 31
March, included representatives of JCR member organizations--
the Argentine People's Revolutionary Army (ERP), the Chilean
Movement of the Revolutionary left (MIR), the Bolivian
National Liberation Army (ELN), and the Uruguayan National
Liberation Movement/Tupamaros (MLN/T).
The conference was conducted without the prior know-
ledge of the owner of the estate. When he became aware of
the meetings he informed the federal police. On 29 March
the police sent a group of plainclothed officer's to inves-
tigate. As the federal and local police approached the
estate, the insurgents opened fire. While the police a-
waited reinforcements from the police and army, at least six
ERP members escaped, including ERP leader Mario, Roberto
Santucho and Juan Mangini, ERP intelligence chief in Tucu-
man. Seven to eleven of the participants were killed during
the exchange of gunfire, and eleven ERP members were cap-
tured. Representatives from the Chilean MIR, Bolivian ELN
and the Uruguayan MLN/T also escaped. Based on information
provided by the prisoners and the captured documents, the
Argentine authorities learned that a principle topic of
discussion was the strategy which should be adopted by the
ERP and the Revolutionary Workers Party (PRT), the political
arm of the ERP, in confronting the new military government
in Argentina. Of particular concern was the role the ERP
and PRT should assume in future activities within the Argen-
tine labor sector.
Among the captured documents was a paper presented by
the Chilean MIR representative. The intact portion of the
document focuses on the importance of learning From past
experiences and mistakes of the various JCR member organiza-
tions. The MIR admitted that it had erred in anticipating a
strong popular resistance to the military regime following
the overthrow of President Salvador Allende, and that it
under-evaluated weaknesses within its own organization,
which were revealed each time the MIR attempted to take the
initiative in military and political spheres against the
Chilean government. According to the captured document,
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through legal and semi-legal structures, and already has
noted some progress in the last few months. No documents
were available concerning the progress or future plans of
the other JCR member organization.
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Paraguay Arrests Terrorist Suspects Returnina from Argentina
In early April Paraguayan security officers arrested,
more than 70 persons suspected of receiving terrorist train-
ing in Argentina, according to the U.S. embassy in Asuncion.
Those arrested included five Argentinians and one Uruguayan,
as well as Paraguayan citizens. The round-up began when a
known Paraguayan Communist was apprehended on 3 April as he
attempted to enter Paraguay from Argentina. He provided
information that led to other arrests. The authorities
learned from these first prisoners that some 200 Paraguayan
terrorists were in the process of moving back to Paraguay,
most of them leaving Argentina in the wake of the recent
coup there. They were said to be organized into several
cells of around 20 to 25 persons each. Some of the arrests
involved shoot-outs, and at least one terrorist leader and a
policeman were killed.
The Ministry of Interior released a press statement on
7 April which claimed that the terrorists were members of
the "Organizacion Politica Militar," linked to extremist
groups in Argentina. The leaders were identified as Juan
Carlos DaCosta del Castillo, described as a university
agitator, who was killed in a shoot-out with the police, and
Miguel Sanmarti Garcia, a Spanish Jesuit priest. According
to other embassy information, Sanmarti was expelled from
Paraguay in 1974 and is believed to be in Barcelona, Spain,
although he may have returned to Paraguay. This group
apparently was related, through support and training by the
Argentine People's Revolutionary Army (ERP), to a terrorist
cell discovered in Asuncion in November 1974, which re-
portedly had planned to assassinate President Stroessner
conduct other terrorist operations.
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According to an Interior official, the returning terror-
ists were still in an organizational phase and had not
developed specific plans for terrorist activity in Paraguay;
they simply had to get out of Argentina. This official said
the police seized quantities of modern small arms and bales
of Marxist/Maoist publications.
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A Paraguayan military intelligence official told several
foreign military attaches that those arrested were mostly
students, some from "good families," who had been studying
at the Northeastern University in Corrientes, Argentina.
They were not members of the ERP but had been trained and
supported by it. He claimed that these returning students
were prepared to begin extensive operations in April to
obtain money and weapons by robbing banks, kidnapping,
breaking into homes where weapons could be found, and at-
tacking police stations to seize weapons. As this statement
is not consistent with the information provided to the
embassy by the Interior official, the military official may
have exaggerated the danger somewhat when briefing the
foreign attaches.
According to the embassy, Paraguayan authorities have
assigned special guards to a number of foreign diplomatic
missions, ostensibly for their protection. There is wide-
spread belief in the diplomatic community, however, that
these guards have been assigned primarily to prevent ftwi-
tives from seeking diplomatic asylum.
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I. Terrorist Threats and Plans:
Western Hemisphere, Including the United States
Target: U.S. CITIZEN
Place: Argentina,
Cordoba
Date:
Target:
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Late April 1976
U.S. EMBASSY
Argentina
April 1976
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The mother of a U.S. citizen
residing in Cordoba received
an extortion threat on 26
January when an unidentified
caller threatened that her
daughter would be killed if
he were not paid $50,000 by
24 April./
The "Red Brigade of Workers
Power" is planning a terrorist
campaign beginning 2 April
against several targets, one
of which is the U.S. mission
in Argentina.
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a revision of a threat reported in previous issues.
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Currpnt Trends in Argentine Terrorism
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The military take-over in Argentina has not resulted in
a decline in terrorist activity. Most observers on the
scene feel that after an initial drop-off following the
coup, terrorist operations have once again reached the
precoup level. Most of the activity has centered around
shoot-outs between the terrorists and the police and mili-
tary. The terrorists are also conducting an assassination
campaign which is primarily directed against police, security
and military officials, although some businessmen have been
targets as well.
The attacks against businessmen differ from previous
campaigns in that the terrorists are currently murdering the
businessmen rather than kidnapping them for ransom. For
example, on 13 April, the two-man bodyguard team for the
Argentine administrative manager of the Goodyear Tire and
Rubber Company was ambushed and killed by the Montoneros
while the bodyguards waited to escort their boss to work.
On 14 April, the Argentine marketing manager for the Chrysler
Corporation was machine-gunned to death when he answered his
door. Attacks on businessmen have not been confined to
foreign targets, so it does not appear that this campaign is
directed specifically against foreign businesses.
Right now, the terrorists are engaging in high visibil-
ity, low risk, target of opportunity operations. Isolated
police units, small military units and bodyguards would fall
into this category. By attacking relatively soft targets
spread over a large area, the terrorists hope to accomplish
three things. First of all, the terrorists wish to demon-
strate to their followers that they can still operate despite
the military take-over. This will aid their recruiting
efforts. Secondly, these operations are useful training
exercises. Thirdly and most importantly, the terrorists
hope to create the illusion that the instability in Argentina
is greater than it really is, and thus provoke the military
into taking harsh repressive measures, thereby alienating
the Argentine population.
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For the past two years, the main objective of the major
Argentine terrorist organizations has been to provoke a
military coup. Now that the coup has taken place, the ter-
rorists' main aim is to provoke harsh repression, polarize
the population and thus set the stage for revolution and
civil war, which the terrorists theorize they will win.
Further, the terrorists can widen their base of international
support if they can equate the actions of the Argentine
junta with the actions of the Chilean junta and thus score
propaganda points for their cause by utilizing the theme
that the military government is suppressing human rights.
What all this means for the near future is hard to say.
If their current provocation campaign does not succeed, the
terrorists may start to concentrate on more formal operations
against higher-level, difficult targets such as government
officials or foreign diplomats; These operations could be
either assassinations �or kidnappings. The probability of a
major kidnapping operation will become greater if the govern-
ment captures key terrorist leaders.
Foreign businesses may also become prime
terrorists begin to run low on money.
targets if the
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the Montoneros are
considering kidnapping executives of large and wealthy firms
in order to obtain funds. It is also possible that by
indiscriminately murdering businessmen, the terrorists are
planning to start an extortion campaign, a tactic which they
used quite successfully in 1973, and which required less
preparation than a kidnapping operation.
Finally all the major terrorist organizations are
attempting to gain recruits among the labor unions. There-
fore any firm, foreign or domestic, that is experiencing
labor troubles could become a prime target for a terrorist
attack.
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I. Terrorist Threats and Plans:
Western Hemisphere, Including the United States
Target: Business
Executives
Place: Argentina
Date: Unknown
Target: U.S. CITIZEN
Place: Argentina,
Cordoba
Date: Late April 1976
Target:
Place:
Date:
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Argentina
April 1976
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of large and wealthy firms in
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men.
The mother of a U.S. citizen
residing in Cordoba received
an extortion threat on 26
January when an unidentified
caller threatened that her
daughter would be killed if
he were not paid $50,000 by
24 April.
The "Red Brigade of Workers
Power" is planning a terrorist
campaign beginning 2 April
against several targets, one
of which is the U.S. mission
in Argentina.
** Indicates a new threat reported for the first time.
* Indicates a revision of a threat reported in previous issues.
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