[SANITIZED]NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE DAILY MONDAY MAY 17, 1976 - 1976/05/17

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Argentina Declassification Project - The "Dirty War" (1976-83)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02996496
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: April 3, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 12, 2019
• Publication Date: May 17, 1976

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Published by the Director of Central Intelligence for Named Principals Only Copy No. is3
MONDAY MAY 17, 1976
VOLUME 3, NUMBER 116
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Bolivia: Assassination in Paris
The assassination last week in Paris of
General Joaquin Zenteno, Bolivian am-
bassador to France, bears a marked
similarity to the murder of Colonel
Ramon Trabal, the Uruguayan military
attache who was shot in his Paris apart-
ment in December 1974.
In each case previously unknown
terrorist groups claimed responsibility for
the murder. A group calling itself the
Raul Sendic International Brigade
(named for the founder of the Tupamaros)
took credit for Trabal's "execution,"
and the "Che Guevara International Bri-
gade" claims it eliminated Zenteno.
Both men had prominent roles in
eradicating leftist subversive groups in
their own countries before being posted to
Paris. Trabal served as chief of military
security in Uruguay and had a primary
responsibility for planning and directing
the campaign against the Tupamaros. He
reportedly was given a diplomatic assign-
ment at the request of army superiors who
resented his ambition and ability.
Zenteno achieved international
prominence in 1967 for tracking down
and capturing Che Guevara; he later
became commander in chief of the armed
forces�the second most powerful posi-
tion in Bolivia. He went into "golden ex-
ile" in 1973 following a serious disagree-
ment with President Banzer over ad-
ministrative and political matters.
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organization, based in Argentina, that
calls itself the Revolutionary Coor-
dinating Junta is responsible for either or
both assassinations.
is possible that an international
this group is led by
representatives of subversive groups in
Bolivia, Uruguay, Paraguay, Chile,
Brazil, and Argentina and is dedicated to
the violent overthrow of military-backed
governments in those countries.
Bankers in Buenos Aires who have been
the victims of terrorist kidnaping
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ransom money was paid in gold and
deposited in banks in Beirut and in un-
marked Swiss accounts in Italy.
In the past, Latin American terrorists
generally confined their operations to
their own countries, but many observers
predict that operations now will be
modeled on the activities of Middle
East terrorist groups and will occur
anywhere
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