3.3(b)(1) Approved for Release: 2018/10/01 CQ0639337 TV gy Department of State TELEGRAM SECRET ‘AN: D760207-0183 PAGE 01° MONTEV 01895 2717092 ro . Peeraymen 2d ACTION -ARA-10 0 Ge} INFO OCT-O1 180-00 SCCT-01 DHA-O2 L-03 10-13 NSC-0S DODE-00 CIAE-O0 INR-O7 PA-O1 PRS~01_ SP-02 NSAE-00 S¥-05 /os1 Ww a-2~ ~ 116133) R 2718552 HAY 76 FMC AMENBASSY MONTEVIDEO To SECSTATE WASHOC 1537 INFO AMENBASSY BUENOS -AIRES SE C RE T MONTEVIDEO 1895: WARNING NOTICE - SENSITIVE INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHODS INVOLVED ~ NOT RELEASABLE TO FOREIGN NATIONALS-NOT RELEASABLE TO CONTRACTORS OR CONTRACTOR/CONSULTANTS, £.0, 11682: xGDS-1 2 2 TAGS: PFOR, PINS, SHUM, AR, UY ‘SUBJ: FURTHER INFORMATION ON APPEARANCE OF 10 BODIES IN URUGUAY : REF? MONTEVIDEO 1823, MONTEVIDEO 1618 1. IN REACTION TO FINDING OF 10 BODIES IN RECENT WEEKS ALONG URUGUAYAN COAST, THE ICJ QUERIED GOU AS TO THE POSSIBLE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THESE BODIES AND ALLEGED DISAPPEARANCE OF FOUR PERSONS FROM LISERTAD PRISOH AND SIX OTHER PERSONS, SEVERAL OF MHOM WERE ALLEGED TO HAVE BEEN ARRESTED AND THEREAFTER MISSING WHILE ATTEMPTING TO ENTER URUGUAY AT COLONIA. THE SAME NUMBER OF PERSONS APPEARING ON THE ICJ TELEGRAM TO THE GOW HAS ALSO APPEARED ON A LIST TRANSHITTED FROM WIRE SERVICES THE FONMINISTER SHOWED THE ICJ TELEGRAM TO THE AMBASSADOR AND EXPRESSED RESENTHENT AND CONCERN OVER THE IMPLICATION DRAWN BY ~- THE IC. : (tHe Gou INVESTIGATED THE LIST OF 10 NAMES ALLEGED BY THE ICJ TO BE MISSING PRISONERS OR TO HAVE DISAPPEARED IN URUGUAY. FOUR OF THE PERSONS, ‘Approved for Release: 2018/10/01 C00639337 6\3.3(b)(1) 3.3(b)(1) Approved for Release: 2018/10/01 C00639337 SECRET PAGE 02 MONTEV 01895 2717092 HENBERS OF THE MLN-TUPAMAROS, ARE CURRENTLY SERVING 3.3(b)(1) SENTENCES IN LIBERTAD PRISON. THESE WERE THE SANE . ALLEGED BY ICJ TO HAVE DISAPPEARED. THEY WERE PRODUCED . BEFORE DEFENSE LAWYERS, MEDIA REPRESENTATIVES AND OTHER PERSONS IN A NATIONALLY TELEVISED PROGRAM CHVD 1823). THREE OF THE TEN, MEMBERS OF THE EXTREMIST OPK 43, ARE 8) BEING DETAINED UT HAVE NOT YET BEEN PROCESSED. AUTHORITIES HAVE NO RECORD ON THE REMAINING THREE PERSONS. 3.3(b)(1) a 3. THE Gou HAS “occ INFORMED PRIVATELY BY ARGENTINE AUTHORITIES THAT EIGHT OF THE TEN BODIES FOUND ALONG THE URUGUAYAN COAST ARE THE-RESULT OF ARGENTINE ANTI-TERRORIST OPERATIONS. THE SOURCE SAID THE BODIES WERE JETTISONED OVER THE RIVER FROM ARGENTINE HELICOPTERS AFTER INTERROGATIONS BY 3.3(b)(1) ARGENTINE AUTHORITIES, Ms PROVIDING ADDITIONAL DETAIL, 8 [THE GODIES FOUND’ ALONG THE URUGUAYAN COAST . WERE THOSE OF! INTERNATICNAL TERRORISTS CAPTUREO AND. LIQUIDATED BY THE ARGENTINE NAVY, THERE MERE REPORTED TO WAVE BEEN 20 INTERNATIONAL TERRORISTS IN ALLy AND ALL MERE CAPTURED AND PRESUMABLY LIQUIOATED. We BEC TeVE IT POSSIBLE THAT THE BODIES FOUND HERE, DESCRIBED AS BEING ASIATIC IN THEIR MAJORITY. COME FROM THIS GROUP OF So THE SOURCE DID NOT KNOW THE TARGET OR TARGETS OF THsS INTERWATIONAL TERRORIST GROUP, GUT THE ARGENTINE NAVE OID TELL TE SOURCE THAT THE GROUP WAS BROUGHT IN BY ARGENTINE TERRORISTS “FOR A BIG. JOB. 8, ,INEGOU"S PRODUCING OF THE FOUR ALLEGEDLY MISSING : PERSONS OBVIOUSLY DESTROYS THIS PART OF ICJ'S ALLEGATIONS By AND THUS TENDS. TO WEAKEN CREDIGILITY OF THE REMAINDER. f PROVIDES THE ONLY PLAUSIBLE EXPLANATION KE WAVE BEEN GIVEN SO FAR OF THE 10 BODIES AND. TF TRUE. ABSOLVES THE GOU FROM ANY RESPONSIBILITY. STRACUSA SECRET ‘Approved for Release: 2018/10/01 C00639337