THE SECURITY SITUATION IN URUGUAY

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 20, 2006
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• Publication Date: April 12, 1967
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Intelligence Memorandum
The Security Situation in Uruguay
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Directorate of Intelligence
12 April 1967
INTELLIGENCE MEMORANDUM
The Security Situation in Uruguay
(Situation Report Number 35)
1. No new information has been received that
would change the basic conclusion reached in Special
National Intelligence Estimate 98-67, SECURITY CON-
DITIONS IN URUGUAY, 23 March 1967, and those addi-
tional judgments set forth in paragraph 1 of our
10 April supplement to Situation Report number 33.
2. Uruguayan security officials began to put
their security plans to the test yesterday as Punta
del Este filled with presidential delegations. Se-
curity at Carrasco airport near Montevideo was good
during presidential flight arrivals and departures,
although it was relaxed somewhat between times.
There were no incidents when President Johnson ar-
rived, although one movie camerman was seen oper-
ating in an area supposedly denied to the press.
The Punta del Este area itself was quiet and free
of security problems during the day, although one
individual who was without proper credentials was
arrested at the San Rafael Hotel. He had reached
the inner security zone apparently without being
challenged.
3. On 10 April an official of the Communist
Party of Uruguay said that the party would encour-
age young activists to stage antisummit "lightning
demonstrations" in Montevideo and to break windows
and throw tar bombs at US properties there. The
beginning of the campaign was to coincide with
President Johnson's arrival in Uruguay. Several
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small demonstrations were staged in the capital
late on 11 April and may have been part of such a
campaign. The same official said that the Commu-
nists expected that about 150,000 Uruguayan workers
would participate in the "general strike" on
12 April. He admitted the number would be only
about one-quarter of those who were involved in the
last general strike. The official's predictions
seem overly optimistic in view of a noticeable in-
crease in apathy among the Communist rank and file
about continuing participation in the antisummit
campaign.
4. Two student demonstrations occurred in
downtown Montevideo yesterday. One of these was
an anti-Communist demonstration and was orderly;
the other was a prolonged demonstration staged by
leftist students at the university which involved
rock-throwing, police retaliation with tear gas,
and a virtual siege of the university building where
the students barricaded themselves.
5. The naval patrol around Punta del Este
has demonstrated its capability to turn away unau-
thorized fishing boats; one boat was turned back
yesterday without incident.
6. According to two Uruguayan students, a
small activist group within the pro-Castro Uruguayan
Revolutionary Movement (MRO) is planning to assas-
sinate President Johnson during his stay in Punta
del Este. The assassination plan calls for an MRO
employee of the San Rafael Hotel to give his docu-
mentation and security pass to the would-be assassin,
who would then have access to the hotel. The stu-
dents implicated a classmate, Ricardo Gomez Puente,
in the plot. Gomez has been arrested but has denied
to the Uruguayan police that he has ever been a mem-
ber of the MRO and claims that the story is a com-
plete fabrication. He did admit, however, that he
was an inactive member of an Uruguayan Communist
youth organization. The investigation is continu-
ing.
7. Elsewhere, Peruvian Communist students at
Lima's San Marcos University reportedly are planning
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acts of terrorism to protest the summit meeting.
The plans allegedly include demonstrating, dis-
tributing propaganda, and throwing home-made bombs
against the US Embassy and US-owned commercial es-
tablishments. The Peruvian Investigations Police
(PIP) have been placed on alert until President Belaunde
returns. PIP personnel have also been posted near
the US Embassy and other likely targets of the dem-
onstrators. At 9:00 PM EST, 10 April, a bomb was
thrown against the private home next door to the
house of a US Embassy official in Lima. Leaflets
found at the scene stated that the act was directed
against "US aggression in Vietnam" and against
the summit conference.
The Security Situation in Surinam
8. Dutch troops are to be included in the
guard force at Zanderij airport, and will be respon-
sible for guarding the half of the airfield's peri-
meter which faces the jungle--considered by Surinamese
and US officials to be the most difficult terrain
to guard. Surinamese police will guard the remainder
of the perimeter.
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