[SANITIZED]NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE DAILY CABLE TUESDAY JUNE 15, 1976 - 1976/06/15

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Argentina Declassification Project - The "Dirty War" (1976-83)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02997892
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 17
• Document Creation Date: April 3, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 12, 2019
• Publication Date: June 15, 1976

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Tuesday June 15, 1976 CI NIDC 76-140C
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TERRORISM
Recently captured documents from various sources
support earlier speculation that Latin American terrorists are
joining forces to engage in activities outside the hemisphere.//
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Shortly after the murder last month of the
Bolivian ambassador to France, General Zenteno, leads developed
by Paris police indicated that some form of international
terrorism was at work. Ballistics tests reportedly confirm that
the gun used to kill Zenteno was the same weapon that wounded
the Spanish military attache in Paris last fall. Moreover, the
murder of Zenteno bears a marked similarity to the assassination
of the Uruguayan military attache in Paris in December 1974.//
Speculation about the activities of a South American
guerrilla organization known as the Revolutionary Coordinating
Junta was also fueled by an advertisement it placed in the May 9
issue of Le Monde in Paris. Entitled "Latin America Fights in
Argentina," the manifesto is the organization's first such open
attack abroad.
It focuses attention on the repressive activities of
the new Argentine government and calls for a world-wide mobiliza-
tion to free Edgardo Enriquez, the founder of the Chilean Move-
ment of the Revolutionary Left and a member of the Junta's
secretariat, who was arrested by Argentine security forces on
April 10. This may be the beginning of an international propaganda
effort to discredit the military government--at least it serves
to arouse the sympathies of the French left on this issue.
'Information on the Coordinating Junta is
fragmentary. Some of it comes from clandestine sources of unknown
reliability or from South American security services that may
exaggerate the importance of available data for their own pur-
poses. Nevertheless, documents captured in raids on guerrilla
hideouts and arrests of extremists in Paraguay, Chile, Argentina,
and Bolivia confirm that such an organization does exist.//
/The organization may have originated during
informal contacts between various South American leftist move-
ments as early as 1968, but its formal existence was declared in
a joint communique in February 1974 when representatives of
guerrilla groups in Bolivia, Uruguay, Chile, and Argentina an-
nounced that they were uniting under the leadership of Roberto
Santucho, the head of the Peoples' Revolutionary Army in
Argentina. In March 1975 a Paraguayan extremist organization
reportedly joined the group and later that month a meeting was
held in Lisbon "to unify the Latin American revolutionary
movements."//
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The Junta is now said to have representatives
in several European countries, including Portugal, Sweden, and
France, but available evidence indicates that its headquarters
is still in Argentina and that most of its funds, and probably
its members, come from the Peoples' Revolutionary Army.//
Until now the Junta has not taken responsibility
tor any terrorist operations, as has been the practice of indi-
vidual guerrilla organizations in South America. This does not
mean that it has been inactive. On the contrary, it would appear
from captured documents that the organization takes its coordi-
nating function seriously and exists for that purpose and to
provide logistic support to its member groups. These functions
were strongly emphasized in the documents captured by the
Paraguayan government late last year, in those uncovered by
Argentine security forces in a raid on one of Santucho's
hideouts this spring, and in documents discovered in Bolivia in
April.//
Despite the lack of hard data on assets or
numbers involved, it would appear that the Junta has already
achieved a status and operational capability that exceeds past
efforts by Latin American revolutionaries to form an intra-
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