WEEKLY SITUATION REPORT ON INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM 2 DECEMBER 1975[SANITIZED] - 1975/12/02

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Argentina Declassification Project - The "Dirty War" (1976-83)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02696734
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 25
• Document Creation Date: April 3, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 12, 2019
• Publication Date: December 2, 1975

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Weekly Situation Report
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WEEKLY SITUATION REPORT
CONTENTS
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Argentine Police Discover ERP Report on U.S. Embassy (Page 3)
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Argentine Police Discover ERP Report on U.S. Embassy
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On 12 November Argentine police raided a People's Revolu-
tionary Army (ERP) safesite apartment in Buenos Aires, which
had been used by two members of the ERP general staff. The
police confiscated a large quantity of ERP documents, including
a report of some 20 pages in English entitle(:. "The U.S. Embassy
in Argentina." The document was not dated but appeared to have
been written in about April 1974. The report refers to several
U.S. Embassy officials, including the Ambassador. It includes
biographic data on some officers, which appears to come mainly
from the official U.S. diplomatic Biographic Register, and in
some cases attempts to analyze the responsibilities of a par-
ticular officer and the reason for his assignment to Argentina.
The report also analyzes various embassy functions, especially
in the political, labor and intelligence areas. It asserts
that the embassy exists primarily to formulate and implement
policies to complement the efforts of the right, the local
oligarchy and wealthy bourgeoisie, in order to preserve im-
perialist domination and exploitation. 3.5(c)
There was no indication in the document as to whether the
ERP had intended to take any sort of action as a result of this
report. Among the U.S. personnel named in the document, how-
ever, was Alfred A. Laun, director of the USIS center in Cor-
doha who wqq kidn,ann A the ERP on 12 April 1974.
There has been previous reporting
that the ERP was collecting information on the U.S. Embassy,
and several other plans for terrorist attacks on the embassy
and its personnel have been reported.
the ERP believed the U.S. Embassy was supporting the Argentine
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undertake an assassination campaign against embassy personnel.
Anti-Communist Alliance, and therefore the ERP planned to
the ERP was planning to
kidnap a U.S. diplomat and had assembled a list of all U.S.
personnel at the embassy. It is possible that the above docu-
ment was related to these aborted terrorist plans, as well as
the Laun kidnapping. As the ERP apparently compiled the
report well over a year ago and has not undertaken any terrorist
attack against embassy personnel since early 1974, the recent
discovery of the document probably does not indicate any unusual
current danger to U.S. diplomats./ /3.5(c)
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