WESTERN HEMISPHERE BRIEF 184-75.4

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 26, 2001
• Sequence Number: 86
• Publication Date: December 1, 1975
• Content Type: CABLE

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41ESTEy(M NEMI~tPHERE BRIEF ]GSM'-?S ? Y
3 ? //CHILE ~ A ?REAKDOYN EH RELATIOaS ?ETIIEEN THE PINOCNE"
fOYERNM6ltT AND THE CATHOLIC CNURCN IN CHILE. ~dNICH HAD APPEARED
'~l1INE0fT+ NAS SEEM AVi`RTED+ ALTNOU6N DEEP DIMrEIREMCfS REdAIN?//M
/~'@Y ?OOtlil~ TO PRESIDENT PINOC!`!ET?S RECENT RE4UEST TO DISSOLVE
ITS C6MniT7EE P'oR PEACE, THE CNURCN iNDIRECTL7 ADMITTED THAT SaNE
OF THB CO>itMITTEE?S PIE198ERS NAD ASSISTED Ft~GITIVEI IrR9l1 TNL TERRORIST
MOVEMENT 4P THE REYOA.UTIONAR'P LErT filIR3 ? SOME OF THOSE ARRESTED
FOR SliELTERIr~t LE~ID~lS Of THE tERRORIST CROUP YERE CHUtitN PERSONS
-i6LDY666 UY CYYai~iiYl1s~.//Y
J/EARLIER THIS MONTH, CARDIliAI SILVA, THE CNIIEA~t PRELATE,
PUBLICLY THREATEIlED TO EXCOMMUNICATE AN IIM'btlENTIA6 AND ULTRA-
COMSE1tVATIVE ADYI$ER TO PINOCifft YHO MAD ATTACKED THE ClFIUQCH FOR
CAMPLICITY Iw" TFRL MIR AFfAIR? THE CNURCN' e[Ei1ED ON THE VER6E 0/ AN
OPEN C~ASN KITH THE fOVERNMENT'? THIS, AS HELL AS THE CNURCH'Y ACUTE
EMBARRASSMENT OVER THE MIR RATTER. PROBABLY atID+ELLED CHURCH
? AUTNfR3TIES 'TO BACK arP FR011 THEIR' PREVIOUS TO1KN STAMC~?//q
//THE COVERNIIEIlT liAS ~ BEEN CAREFUL TO KEEP CNURCN-STAVE
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DIF(rEREPICES YITHIN MANACEASI.E LIMITS AMD TO t?-AVE THE DOOR OPEhI rdR
COOPERATION. PINOCHET HAS f1E't PRIVATELY YITH CARDIliAI SxLVA,
PRESUnABLY Tq YORK OUT AN IJNDERSTANDIMG, ACID 80TH HAVE APPEARED
DISPOSED TO TAKE Aq EVEN-HANDED APPROACH IM DEALING ifIT6+J Tk[IR
lUA~,ZELS ? //Y ~
//PI[IOCHET'T HANDLIN06 Of t6iE AR~ST AND SI~BIEOUENT FXPUlSION
Of Tl~E US CITIZENS CAM A~tS? ?E ATTRI?UT'ED 't0 A DESIRE TO fiVOID
FURTHER COMPLICATINi RE4ATYOOiS YITH THE US?!/Y
//CARDINAL SILVA IS CtJR1~ENT1.1' IN ROfIE i1HERE HE YS EIPECTED
YO HOL!- TALKx 91ITH THE POPE +1N THE CiAiRCN'S POSITION IN CHILE ? THE
CHURCH Ylll REI~AIa CAUTx,Ug IY DEALE~Ii YITH THE . P~ILITARV ~EiIAE:
FURTHER STRII"~E OVER SENSITIVE ISSUES IS i.IKE1.Y. R9iT IT It TO i'-1E
ADVANTAGE Of 00TH SIDES To Sf~ C019PR0'RlITES. THE JtFNTA YoULD STAaD
TO LORE THE MOST If IT USED AN IR?li HAND AGAINST tNE CNURCN aECAUSE
Of THE IMEE/ITABLE ZMStER?IATIONAL REPERCIUSSIObS? AT tNE SA!!E TIf1E, THE
CNURCN COtR.D LOiE THE SUPPORT Of CO#ISER~IATIYES. MHO NAVE ALREADY
CRYTICI _tFD I'fS zNVOLVEMENY 11ITH THE TERRORIS'i'T, IF IT CONTIYUES YO
CONFRONT THE COVERI~OIEMT? #COt~p'IDENTIAL MOFORaI//Y
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~. 0/L~AfIN AMERICA-US: LATIN AMERICAAI GOV?RNPIENTS WILf~ 8E
C1l.OSEl.Y EXAMINING THE d~EYL'~ AUTHORIZED GEAlERAI SYSTEt1 OP PREFERENCES
PRODUCT FIST, dHICH THEY REGARp AS AAI I19PORTAIdT INDICATOR OF US
APPRGACHES TOYAPtD TNE~[R DEVELOP!!E~lT AS'P'IRATIONS- WH?TNER THE
ICXCI.USION Of THE AilEA'S TWO OPEC MEC1?ERS, VENEIUEIA AND ECiIADOR, ldILl
TTIMUTATE BROAD ECE~IONAL CRITICISi9 OP US TRADE POLICY filLi. PR08AU4Y
4URM 8N HOY 8Ei1E1'IC?~aL OR DISAPPOIPtTIHG THE RESt OPT 1HE GOVERNt1ENTs
f IND THE LIST F?!R T1iEIR 061>W COUNTRI~ET ? //M
//SIEVERAL SOs'ERNf9B?TS, IMC~.UDIH6 BRAZIL AND COLOl18IA,
i4AVE REACTED PAV?RA?LY Y@ U3 ASSURAi~iCES rHA? SiiE NEY LYS4 tlILL GRAgT
BETTE~t ACCESS FOR TNEYR EXPORTS TO TINE US MARKET- TNEY INTEND,
HOYEi-ER, TO CCRUT][~IIZE CARErULLY 41iE ACTUAL LIST IP! ORDER TO MAKE
T~1EYR OYk AMALYSYY Of ITS 3MPACT GAI TNETR COl1flERtE? ONE REFEk'ENCE
l~OTNT PILL PROBA?LY BE YASNIMGTON'S ORI62MAL PROPOSAL OP PROlvCTS 0!d
TiIE 6EalERAL PREfERE1~CE LISP-~-SOfIE Of YiiICN NAVE SIMGC 1~EEN DELETED-//Y
//ECUADOR'S pf~t~iALS AMA ~`lErlt HAVE BEEM VEWTIN6 4HEIR Att6E@t
? OVER OUTTO' S EXCLUSIO~i PR9N THE PREFERENCE SCF~u~L, 8UT HAt'E ALSO
CRI'~CYZED ITS Al~Pl.IC,A87LLITY TO '"Td0 fEY PRODUCTS." SIMILAR REAC'"IOiN
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~S AO.nOST CERTAIDO TO r:OP1E fROR VEMEZtlELA? NO HOVE HAS 8EE?~ WADE YET
TO CA~,L A SPECIAL. SE;~~~SION 0!' THE OAS TO REVIfY 'ENE SITUATION, AS WAS
DONE LAST SPRING fA~?BUOYING' THE PASSAGE Of THE ~~-..:~E REFORn ACT.
THIS ACTIOAI COUL& ~~'`,? REPEATED *~1 THE EVENT QUY1P0 AND CAF~ACAS RIND
SYnPATHETIC EARS I~1 iiEIPHBOt~TNG CAf~ITA~.S ? {COt~PIDENTIAL ROP'ORN}
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EAST ASIA BRIEF 1~4-75.4'
1. LAOS: A SENIOR LAO GOVERN~1ENT OFFICIAL SAID ON SUNDAY
THAT PfZIME~~MTNISTER SOUVANNA PHOUMA AND THE KING HAD DECIDED TO
STEP DOWN, AND '~FfAT AN ANNOUNCEMENT MIGHT BE MADE ~ON MONDAY. THE
HOLDING OF A MEETING AT SOUVANNA PHOUMA'S HOUSE IN VIENTIANE ON
SUNDAY ADDED TO SI'ECULATION?4'
OM F"f7IDAY TF~E COt1MUNISTS LAUNCHED A WELL-REHEARSED CAMPAIGN
AGAINST THE COALITION IN VIENTIANE. IN THE MORNING, THE COMMUNIST
PARTY NEQ'SPAPER FEATURED A SPEECH BY PATHET LAO CABINET MEMBER
KHAMOUANE BOUPHA CALLING FOR THE REPLACEMENT OF 1'HE COALITION
WITH A ^PEOPLE' J DE110CRATIC GOVERNMENT ? ^ LATER '!~i!~' SAME DAY,
WELL-ORCHESTRATED DEMONSTRATIOfvS BEGAN IN SEVERAL AREAS OF VIENTIAN E
CALLING FOR THE AF30LITION OF THE COALITION. A GROUP OF ABOUT 1,000
MARCHED TO THE RESIDENCE OF PRIME MINISTER SOUVANNA DEMANDING HIS
=~REMOVAI~?5~
FOUR DAYS EARLIER, MOST OF THE REMAINING NON-COMMUNIST
.POLITICIANS TN VIENTIANE WERE FLOWN~TO THE COMMUNIST HEADQUARTF'RS
NEAR SAM NEUA, DEEP IN NORTHEASTERN LAOS, OSTENSIBLI' TO ATTENTi A
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HEFTING OF THE COALITION JOINT NATIONAL POLITICAL COUNCIL. IT IS
LIKELY THAT THEY iJILL BE DtTATN~B THERE INDEFINITELY, ulOINING
OTHER FORMER RAPIKING POLITICIANS AND MILITARY OFFICERS IN LENGTHY
RE-INDOCTRINATION SESSIONS?5'
THE`'COMMUNISTS HAVE BEEN LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR SOUVA~JNA'S
RETIREMENT S~fJCE I..AST SEPTEMBER, BUT THE PRIME MINISTER HAD EXPECT-
ED TO REMAIN i1f~ ;~ ~.~ TIE COMPLETION OF NATIONAL ELECTIONS IN APRIL .
NOW, HOWEVER THE COMMUNISTS Fih:%c APPARENTLY DECIDED THAT' THEY HAVE
NEUiRAI.IZED ALL 0(~POSITION AND SAN EFFECTIVELY OPERATE THE GOVERN-
MENT. THEY HAVE TIDE ELECTION PROCESS WELL UNDER WAY THROUGHOUT THE
COUNTR'f AND SEE No REASON TO MAINTAInI i"HE v!.'CASIONALLY CUMBERSOME
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1. PORTUGAL: PRIME MINISTER I;ZEVEDO AND~ANTI-COMMUNIST MILITARY
OFFICERS ARE CARRY7:NG OUT A FULL-SCALE PURGE OF PRO-COMMUNISTS AND
OTHER EXTREME LEFTISTS IN THE MILITARY AND THE GOVERNMENT.'r'
ADMIRAL ROSA COUTINHO AND NAVY CHIEF OF STAFF FILGUEIRA SOARES
AP,E THE LATEST HIGFI-LEVEL OFFICERS TO BE FORCED OIIT IN THE WAKE OF
LAST WEEK'0S ABORTIVE PARATROOPER REBELLION- THEIR DEPARTURE LEAVES
ONLY TWO COMMUNIST SYMPATHIZEfiS ON THE REVOLUTIONARY COUNCIL--BOTH
NAVY OFFICERS-AND THEY ALSO Ai~E LIKELY TO GO AS THE PURGE OF THE
i1ILITAFcY CONTINUES. GENERALS CARVALHO AND FABIAO, WHO WERE FORCED OUT
LAST WEEK, MAY HAVE HAD SOME CONNECTION WITH THE REBELLION, BUT ROSA
COUTINHO AND FI~.GUCIRAS SOARES, BOTH LEFTISTS, HAVE CLEARLY BEEN
PURGED ON IDEOLOGICAL GROUNDS, INDICATING THAT THE ANTI-COMMUNIST
FACTION IS MOVING ACROSS THE BOARD TO SOLIDIFY ITS CONTROL OF THE
?~MTLITARY.S'
THE PRIME MINISTER INITIATED THE MOVE BY CLEANING OUT HIS OWN
PERSONAL STAFF, WHICH CONTAINEr MANY~PRO-COMMUNIST NAVY OFFICERS.
PRESIDENT COSTA GOMES HIMSELF HAS COME IN FOR SOME SHARP CRITICISM,
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THE GOVERNMENT, WHICH HAD EARLIER SUSPENDED ITS ACTIVITIES,
IS. NOW BACK AT WORK, BUT THE PURGE OF LEFTISTS SEEMS UNLIKELY
TO END PARTISAN SQUABBLING. THE SOCIALIST PARTY IS INSISTING T HAS'
THE C~`MMUNISTS FUBLI('LY REPUDIATE THE PARATROOPER REBELLION AN D
SWEAR ALLEGIANCE TO THE AZEVEDO GOVERNMENT IF THEY ARE TO CONTINUE
TO PARTICIPATE IN TF~E CABINET- A SOCIALIST PARTY SOURCE REPORTS
THAT IF THE COMMUNISTS DO NOT MEET THESE CONDITIONS, THE SOCIALISTS
IJILL DEMAND THAT A NEW GOVERNMENT, WITH NEITHER COMMUNISTS NOR
POPULAR DEMOCRATS, DE F'ORMED.S'
THE POPULAR DEMOCRATS ARE ALSO SEEKING TO CANITALIZE ON THE
RETREAT OF THE LEFT, AND HAVE CALLED FOR IMMEDIATE ELECTIONS. I N
ADDITION, THEY ARE CALLING FOR THE REMOVAL OF THE COMMUN1:Si' PARTY
FROM ITS ONE CABINET POST/' WORKERS IN THE' NORTHERN Cx'1'Y OF PORTO
HAVE SIGNI^D A PETITION CALLING FOR THE REMOVAL OF FOREIGN MINIS TER
ANTUNES, WHO SAID LAST WEEK THAT THE COMMUNISTS STILL HAD AN
ESSENTIAL ROLE TO PLAYS'
THE COMMUNISTS THEMSELVES HAVE CLAIMED THAT THEY HAD NOTHING TO
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NEED FOR A POLITICAL, ? RATHER THAN MILITARY, SOLUTION TO THE' COIINTRY'
PROBLEMS. A RECEiVT PARTY COMMUNIQUE DOES NOT CRITICIZE T~iE GOVEP.N-
MENT'S .PURGE OF T{~~ LEFT, BUT CONFINES ITSELF TO WARNING THE SOCIAL-
?STS AND''THE ANTUNES MILITARY FACTION THAT THE EXTREME RIGHT WILL
SEEK TO TAKE ADVArJTAG~ OF THE SITUATION.{SECRET}S' i
2. SPAIN: PRIME MINISTER ARIAS' TWO-HOUR MEETING WITH KING
JUAW CARLOS LAST FRIDAY HAS GIVEN RISE TO WIDESPREAD RUMORS THAT A
GOVERNMENT SHAKE-UP IS IMMINENT.4'
IT HAD LONG BEEN EXPECTED THAT WHEN JUAN CARLOS TOOK OVER HE
WOl!!.D ATTEMPT TO {?'UT A NEW FACE ON THE GOVERNMENT BY NAMING A NEW
PRIME MINISTER AND THAT THE SELECTION WOULD BE A GOOD :INDICATION OF
WHETHER THE KING COULD AVOID TOTAL DOMINATION BY THE RIGHT. ARIAS
STILL HAS THREE YEARS REMAINING IN HIS TERM OF OFFICE, HOWEVER, AND
THE KING IS NOT REQUIRED TO REPLACE HIM AT PRESENTS'
SOME OF THE SPECULATION ON GONER^lMENT CHANGES CENTERS ON THE
KING'S RETAINING ARIAS FOR NO'vl BUT AT THE SAME TIME SHUFFLING THE
CABINET TO BRING IN POLITICIANS MORE ACCEPTABLE TO THE OPPOSITION.
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SUCH A MOVE COULD INDICATE THAT JUAN CARLOS BELIEVED THAT FRANCO'S
OLD RIGHTIST SUPPORTERS COULD BLOCK THE NOMINATION OF A NEW PRIME
MINISTER WHO FAVORED SIGNIFICANT POLITICAL LIBERALIZATION-4'
THE KING WILL NOT BE ABLE TO AVOID NAMING A NEW LEADER OF
PARLIAMENT, HOWEVER, AS THE TERM OF THE CURRENT PRESIDENT 4F 1'F-IE
CORTES EXPIRED ON NOVEMBER 26. THE MEETING BETWEEN ARIAS AND THE KING
MQY HAVE 'BEEN TO DISCUSS THIS APPOINTMENT, A POST FOR WHICH ARIAS H IM-
SELF IS IN THE RUNNING. THE PRESIDENT OF THE CORTES ALSO DOUBLES AS
PRESIDENT OF i'HE COUNCIL OF THE REALM AND WILL HAVE A MAJOR VOICE I N
THE COUNCIL'S PRESENTATION TO THE KING ~OF THE LIST' OF THREE CANDIDATES
FOR PRIME MINISTER, F~iOM WHICH JUAN CARLOS MUST CHOOSEY
THE GOVERNMENT HAS PROMISED, MEANWHILE, TO CLARIFY ITS RECENT '
PARDON DECREE, WHICH HAS BEEN CRITICIZED AS GOING NO FURTHER THAN
SIMILAR ACTIONS BY FRANCO- TO SHOW GOOD FAITH, THE GOVERNMENT HAS
ALREADY RELEASED PiANY PRISONERS, SOME OF WHOM WERE JAILED FOR POLIT - '
=ICAL OFFENSES. MARCELINO CAMACHO, A TOP LEADER OF THE COMMUNIST-DOM I-
~~NATED WORKERS' COMMT.SSIONS, WAS AMONG THE FIRST TO ESE RELEASED.Y
COMMUNIST PARTY LEADER SANTIAGO CARRILLO MAY SOON PROVIDE A TEST
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OF THE GOVERNhitNT'S POLT_TIC~L TOLERANCE- HE ANNOUNCED ON SUNDAY Fits
INTENTION TO RETLIRN TO SPAIN SOON FROM EXILE IN PARIS, HIS STATEl1ENTS~
PUBLISHED IN THE FR~.NCH MAGA?INE L'EXPRESS, WILL MAKE IT DIFFTCUL'1`
FOR THE SPANISH GOVERP!(iENT TO PERMIT HIS RETURN, HObJEVER ? HE CRTTICTZ-
ED JUkN C.',RLOS AS "FRANCO'S KING,^ AND SAID THAT HTS PARTY WOULD
HAVE ACCEPTED THE KING'S FATHER, DGN JUAN. HE ALSO RAISED THE
POSSIBILT?TY OF CAl.I.ING FOR DEMONSTP.ATIONS AGAINST 'SHE LIMITED NATURE
OF TyE PARDON ISSUED PY THE KING.{CONFIDENTIAL}M
a 3- SPAIN: THE POLITICAL OPPOSITION IN SPAIN HAS BEEN WEAKENED
BY NEARLY FOUR DECADES 4F PROSCRIPTION 'AND TODAY CONSISTS, FOR THE
MOST PART, OF POORLY ORGANIZED S".IkVIVOR~ OF POLITICAL PARTIES AND
REGIONAL ORGANIZATIONS .5'
MANY OF Tl4E GRCUPS HAVE "EXILF^ AS WELL AS "INTERIOR" PARTY
STRUCTURES. PERSOr~nLITIES ARE OFTEN MOVE IMPORTANT THAN THE GROUPS
':THEY LEAD, AND RIVAL FACTIONS ARE DIVIDED AS MUCH BY THEIR DEVOTION
?.:TO DIFFERENT LEADERS AS BY IDEOLOGY- OPPOSITION LEADERS LAST YEAR
??ATTEMPTED TO OVERCOME DIFFERENCES G'r' MOVING TO COMBINE THEIR PARTIES
' INTO A COALITION - THEY MADE SOME r~ROGRESS, BUT THE EMERGEPJCE OF TWO
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RIVAL COALITIONS DESTROYED ANY VISIONS OF ;~ UNIFIE.D FRONTS'
THE INITIATIVE FOR A MERGEf2 CAME FROM THE COMMUNISTS, WHO
PUSHED THE-FORMA'PION OT THE DEMOCRATIC JUNTA IN THE SUMMER OF 1974-
THE JUNTA FELL FAR SHORT OF COMMUNIST '~10PES, MAINLY BECAUSE OF A
i.LGACY OF?DISTRUST AMONG SPANISH LEFTISTS, WHO REMEMBER THE RUTHLESS
COMMUNIST PURGES OF ANARCHISTS, SOCIALISTS, AND OTHER DURING THE
CLOSING D11YS OF THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR. MOST SOCIALISTS AND CHRISTIAN
DEMOCRATS REFClSED TO JOIN. THE MOST TMPOR?ANT NON-COMMUNIST PARTY
TO JOIN WAS TIERNO GALVAN'S NOPULAR SOCIALISTS. TIERNO HAS CONSIDER-
ABLE PERSONAL PRESTIGE AND SOME INFLUENCE IN LEFTIST CIRCLES, BUT HIS
GROUP IS VERY SMALL AND LACKS POPULAR SUPPORT S'
THE COMMUNISTS ;.."; EASILY THE STRONGEST AND BEST-ORGAN:LZED
FORCE IN THE OPPOSITION. THEY NUMBER ABOUT 5,000 ACTIVE "`IEMBERS IN
SPAIN ANA AT LEAST TWICE THAT MANY ABROAD, MOSTLY IN FRANCE. THE
-PARTY, OUTLAWED SINCE THE END OF THE CIVIL WAR, WAS HARSHLY REPRESSED
BY THE FRANCO GOVERNMENT-IN .CONTRAST TO FRANCO'S TOLERATI~.:N OF MANY
:'OCHER CPPOSITION PARTIES-AND COMMUNIST LEADERS HAVE RARELY VENTURED
INTO SPAIN, SANTIAGO CARRILLO, NOW 60 AND LIVING IN PARIS, HAS BEEN
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SECRETARY GENERAL SINCE DOLORES TBARRURI ACCEPTED THE HONORIFIC TITLE
4F PARTY PRESIDENT IN 1960.4'
THE MAIN SOURCE OF THF_' COMMUNISTS' STRENGTH IS 'THEIR DOMINANCE
OVER MOST OF THE tv~RKERS' COMMISSIONS FORMED TN THE 196nS. COMMUNIST
ORGANIZATION, DISCIPLINE, AND FINANCIAL BACKING WAVE HELPED MAKk"
THE COMMISSIONS THE MOST D1`'NAMTC POLITICAL MECHANISM AVAILABLE TO THE
SPANISH WtSRKER. THE COMMISSIONS WILL BE PARTICULARLY USEFUL TO THE
COMMUNISTS IF KING JUAN CARLOS DOES NOT OPEN OTHER AVENUES BY WHICH
THE WORKERS CAN TAKE THEIR GRIEVANCES TO MANAGEMENT.M
THE COMMUNISTS ALSO HAVE AT THEIR DISPQSAL AN INSTRUMENT FOR
POLITICAL PROPA~~NDA IN RADIO ESPANA INDEPE'NDIENTE, WHICH BROADCASTS
FROM ROMANIA. THE COMMUfvIISTS FIND SOME SUPPORT IN THE SPANISH
UNIVERSITIES AND FIAVE GAIP%ED CONSIDERABLE INFLUENCE IN THE MEDIA.
THEIR ATTEMPTS OVER MANY YEARS TO INFILTRATE THE MILITARY HAVE
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