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FURTHER INFORMATION ON APPEARANCE OF 10 BODIES IN URUGUAY - 1976/05/27
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Publication Date:
May 27, 1976
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SOBJ: FURTHER INFORMATION ON APPEARANCE OF 10
BODIES IN uRusuAr
REF: MONTEVIDEO 1823, MONTEVIDEO 1818
1. /N REACTION TO FINDING OF 10 BODIES IN RECENT WEEKS
ALONG URUGPAYAN COAST, THE ICJ QUERIED GOU AS TO THE
POSSIBLE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THESE BODIES AND ALLEGED
DISAPPEARANCE OF FOUR PERSONS FROM LIBERTAD PRISON AND
SIX OTHER PERSONS, SEVERAL OF WHOM WERE ALLEGED TO HAVE
SEEN ARRESTED AND THEREAFTER MISSING WHILE ATTEMPTING TO
ENTER URUGUAY AT COLONIA. THE SAME NUMBER OF PERSONS
APPEARING ON THE ICJ TELEGRAM TO THE GOL HAS ALSO APPEARED
ON A LIST TRANSMITTED FROM WIRE SERVICEII THE,FONMINISTER
SHOWED THE ICJ TELEGRAM TO THE AMBASSADOR AND EXPRESSED
RESENTMENT AND CONCERN OVER THE IMPLICATION DRAWN BY -
THE ICJ.
2. THE GOU INVESTIGATED THE LIST
OF 0 NAMES ALLEGED BY THE ICJ TO BE MISSING PRISONERS
OR TO HAVE DISAPPEARED IN URUGUAY. FOUR OF THE PERSONS,
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MEMBERS OF THE MLN-TUPAMAROS, ARE CURRENTLY SERVING
SENTENCES IN L/BERTAD PRISON. THESE WER THE SAME -
ALLEGED BY ICJ TO HAVE DISAPPEARED. THEY WERE PRODUCED
BEFORE DEFENSE LAWYERS, MEDIA REPRESENTATIVES AND OTHER
PERSONS IN A NATIONALLY TELEVISED PROGRAM (MVO 1823).
THREE OF THE TEN, MEMBERS OF THE EXTREMIST OPk U ARE
BEING DETAINED BUT HAVE NOT YET BEEN PROCESSED.
\AUTHORITIES HAVE NO RECORD ON THE RENAMING THREE
PERSONS.
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3. THE GOU
HiP4 accri inrummtu PRIVATELY BY ARGENTINE AUTH ITIES THAT
EIGHT OF THE TEN BODIES FOUND ALONG THE URUGUAYAN COAST ARE
THE-RESULT OF ARGENTINE ANTI-TERRORIST OPERATIONS. THE
SOURCE SAID THE BODIES WERE JETTISONED OVER THE RIVER
FROM ARGENTINE HELICOPTERS AFTER INTERROGATIONS BY
ARGENTINE AUTHORITIES.
4. PROVID/NG_ADDITIONAL DETAIL
THE BODIES FOUND ALONG THE URUGUAYAN COAST
WERE THOSE WINTERNATICNAL TERRORISTS CAPTURED AND
LIQUIDATED BY THE ARGENT/NE NAVY. THERE WERE REPORTED TO
HAVE SEEN 20 INTERNATIONAL TERRORISTS IN ALL, AND ALL
WERE CAPTURED AND PRESUMABLY LIQUIDATED. WE BELIEVE
IT POSSIBLE THAT THE BODIES FOUND HERE, DESCRIBED AS BEING
ASIATIC /N THEIR MAJORITY, COME FROM THIS GROUP OF 20.
THE SOURCE DID NOT KNOW THE TARGET OR TARGETS OF THIS
INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST GROUP, BUT THE ARGENTINE NAVY
DID TELL THE SOURCE THAT THE GROUP WAS BROUGHT /N BY
ARGENTINE TERRORISTS "FOR A BIG JOB."
S. THE GOU'S PRODUCING OF THE FOUR ALLEGEDLY MISSING
PERSONS OBVIOUSLY DESTROYS THIS PART OF ICJ'S ALLEGATIONS
AND THUS TENDS,TO WEAKEN CREDIBILITY OF THE REMAINDER.
PROVIDES THE ONLY PLAUSIBLE EXPLANATION WE
HAVE SEEN GIVE SO FAR OF THE 10 BODIES AND, IF TRUE,.
ABSOLVES THE GOU FROM ANY RESPONSIBILITY.
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