POSSIBLE PLANS OF CHILEAN ARMY OF NATIONAL LIBERATION (ELN) TO KIDNAP GOVERNMEN

Created: 1/27/1975

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I. THE CHILEAN ARHY OF NATIONAL LIBERATION (ELN) FLANS TO KIDNAP CHILEAN AMBASSADORS AND OTHER HIGH-RANKING CHILEAN OFFICIALS POSTED.IN CERTAIN UNSPECIFIED LATIN AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN COUNTRIES.

EXCHANGED FOR ELN MILITANTS IMPR1SONEO IN CHILE. TO ASSIST IN

PLANS. THE ELN INTENDS TO REOUEST FINANCIAL AND LOOlSTlCAL SUPPORT FROM TME TROTSKTITE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL. IN THIS REGARD.e L.EST GERMAN CURRENTLY RESIDING IN BRUSSELS WHO EADER OF TME FOURTH INTERNATIONAL. HASYMPA-

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APPROVED FOR RELEASE OAIE.

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THfiTJC hearing Or THfc eln pl an, furthermore, handel tS providing; funds for ThE TRAVEL of eln leaoers To FAR is in early uts towith ThE TROTSKVlTbS AnD leaders of other radical chilean parties and terroristnj2ations. HaNDEL has also promised TO place

the printing Facilities of the fourth international at the

2, kith regard'to the ELN's'activities inside chile, there

are approximatelfUTANTSache of armsillion escudosho ARE active IN santiago trying TOuerrilla unit w[ th dissidents from the com* munist and socialist parties of chile and the movement of theleft (hir), modest results have seen obtained in these efforts AS younger. more raoical members of these parties haveconvinced of the futility of the BROAli-baseo political. front TmEIR party leaders are attempting '0 0rgani2e.

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SU"QE' IN CHILE WHEN fJNANClAL

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