Ve don't Pterrt: with the fact that the Silvadoran guerrillar have managed tcortion of -their arms or. the erountf ir. E) Salvador. However, it ia misleading tc suggest that'thr Sfilvedcran guerrillas are no longer depending on outside support through Kiceragui. according to the best ir.fomatior. available tr, us, the Sandinistas continue to provide vital tailitarv support to the Salvaceran insurgents including command and control; training centers; and logistical baser for arms, ammunition, snd other supplies. From what we xnov,Uj^the_smmunitiDn used by th** in El Salvador ie providedicaragua.
Fron the best facts we have available to ur nov, we knov thaf.t
Since. Government has7 items of ordr.ance end communications (riflei, machine ouni,
pistols, radior) equipment to the Government of El Salvador.
The Government of XI Salvador has reported that since. s'upplied ordnance/communicationr items have been captured by the guerrillas. ..
This eguatest of the ordnance/communications items purchased by therom. Government.
A separate tally of weapons captured bv the Government of EI Salvador 1tor the Guerrillas indicates thet:
3EI of. weapons captured by the ESW are confirmed as weapons originally shipped by. to the Republic of Vietnam for either our forces or the Vietnamese.
This report ie prepared. Gcvernmert source* (Rocx Island Arsenall based on weapons captured in the field by the ESAf or weapons turned in to the ESAT by Guerrillas vho have surrendered.
It should be noted that there are additional weapons besider those. manufacture which have been captured by the guerrilla?. These are not included in the two sets of figures above.
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Our ability to track these. supplied weapon* is limited by the small number. personnel in El Salvador and the factot. personnel in th* iiejc vath Salvadorannits.
Most impcrtantly, the Hfarti that ve doeflect the loss rater lor I'.ft. trainedquipped vita crdnancc purchased fror. Jt is clear that in thoie units thee if asttrsnaely lov.
The figures Dr. :kle used were derivedlassified study prepared by intelligence analysts who estimated the infiltration of Weapon* ir. one sector of El Salvador [thr Southiritec period ef time fSeptetrberarch 1,. It is an ertinate and doet net include arrs infiltrated overland or by air fror. Kicaraoue or through Honduras or Guatemala.
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Ve have preserved our case for the urgency of increasedto the Salvadcrar, military. In our judoe^cr.t, is sound and the ongoing Presidential electiontounoff, requires our support to ensure
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