IDENTIFICATION OF ARMED BANDIT GROUP IN CHIHUAHUA AS SAME GROUP WHICH INSTIGATED ANTI-DIAZ ORDAZ DEMONSTRATIONS DURING 1964 ELECTION CAMPAIGN

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00154031
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• Document Creation Date: July 13, 2023
• Document Release Date: February 9, 2022
• Case Number: F-2019-02317
• Publication Date: October 11, 1965

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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COUNTRY Mexico
.SUSACT Identiftcation of Armed Bandit
Group in Chihuahua as Same Group
! Which Ustigated Anti-Diaz Ordaz
Demonstrations During 1964 Election
Campaign i!
DATE OF 24 Septumber 1965
INFO.
PLACE& Mexico, Mexico City
DATEACO. (25 September 1965)
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(Field 7.)mment: The slaying by Mexican Army troops of Arturo Gamiz Garcia,
leader of u group of bandits which attacked a Mexican Army encampment
!near Mader*, in the State of Chihuahua, on 23 September 1965. was reported
! widely by the Mexican press on 24 Seot,.mber.
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According to Jose Trinidad Cervantes Davalos, national leader of the
National Sinarchist Union (UNS - Union Nacional Sinarquista - rightist,
Catholic political organization), the armed group, led by Arturo Gamiz
Garcia, which attacked a Mexican Army encampment near Madera, Chihuahua,
on 23 September 1965, was the same group which instigated disorders in
Chihuahua during the election campaign of President-elect Gustavo Diaz
Ordaz, in which the speakers' platform and photographs of Diaz Ordaz
were destroyed by fire.
'Field Comment: A report dated 30 April 1964 cited Gamiz, among others,
as a principal leader of the anti-Diaz Ordaz demonstrations in Chihuahua
on 6 April 1964. Gamiz was arrested for his participation, Was rPleamed
on bail, but was charged with destruction of property. (Cf.
4 JUne 1964).
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