NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE DAILY (CABLE) 11 MARCH 1982

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• Publication Date: March 11, 1982

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CENTRAL AMERICA: Military Offensive in El Salvador
The armed forces in El Salvador are taking the military ini-
tiative in order to upset insurgent plans to disrupt the elections.
Meanwhile, the Guatemalan Government appears headed for a showdown
with opposition parties protesting the election of General Guevara.
The Salvadoran Army has begun a large-scale offen-
sive against a major insurgent base area in the central
part of the country. Almost 2,000 troops are involved in
the operation, which was launched with unusual securit
precautions to avoid tipping off the guerrillas.
The base area is a key point in the distribution of
insurgent supplies throughout El Salvador. It also is
a potential staging area for an attack on one of the
remaining bridges across the Lempa River.
The insurgents, meanwhile, have reopened overland
supply routes between Nicaragua and El Salvador through
Honduras. Vehicles carrying money, small arms, and ex-
plosives are en route to insurgent units north of the
capital.
Comment: The Army's most recent offensive appar-
ently upset insurgent plans to attack San Salvador, and
this operation may disrupt guerrilla raids on cities in
the country's central and eastern regions.
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