SITUATION REPORT AS OF 1030 HOURS LOCAL, 27 MAY 1965 BOLIVIA

Created: 5/27/1965

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I. 0 HOURS ONAY TWO SOUND TRUCKS ENTERED

THE FACTORY WORKERS DISTRICT OF LA PAZ AND BEGAN BROADCASTEVERYONE SHOULD LEAVE THEIR HOMES AS "WE ARETODAY." 0 HOURS HEAVY FIRING BROKE OUT

. VARIOUS SECTIONS OF THE CITY. SMALL GROUPS OF ARMEO PERSONS THE FIRING ALMOST SIMULTANEOUSLY. WORKERS

IN THE FACTORY DISTRICT IDENTIFIED THE NATIONAL LEFTIST REVOLUTIONARY

2. THE POINTS OF FIGHTING DURING THE ENSUE ING SEVERAL HOURS WERE AT THE ESTAOO MAYOR, THE EL ALTO AIRPORT, THE FACTORY WORKERS DISTRICT, AND THE MINISTRY OF DEFENSE. THERE MAY HAVE BEEN OTHER AREAS UNDER FIRE, BUT THEY ARE NOT KNOWN AT THE PRESENT TIME. 0 ALL WAS QUIET AND THERE WAS NO SOUND OF GUN FIRE. GENERAL ALFREDO OVAMDO CANDIA HAD BEEN AT THE ESTADO MAYOR WHEN THE FIGHTING BROKE OUT AND REMAINED

THERE THROUGHOUT. GENERAL RENE fjARR IFNTOS ORTUNO WAS ASLEEP

IN HIS HOME AT THE TIME OF THE OUTBREAK OF HOSTILITIES AND REMAINED THERE UNTIL THE FIRING CEASED. THE PEOPLE IN THE

liARRlENTOS CAMP BELIEVE THAT THE BOLIVIAN SOCIALIST FALANGE

{FSB) WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE NIGHT'S ACTIONS.

lOOPS FULLY ARMED ARE NOW BEING DEPLOYED IN ALL STRATEGIC PLACES

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IN AND OVERLOOKING THE CITY OF LA PAZ.

3. THE CITY OF LA PAZ IS FUNCTIONING NORMALLY AT THIS TIME, EXCEPT FOR THE LACK OF ELECTRICITY IN CERTAIN RESIDENTIAL SECTIONS, WHICH IS THE RESULT OF LAST NIGHT'S FIGHTING. THERE ARC NO INDICATIONS AT THIS TIME OF ARMED FIGHTING IN LA PAZ OR

THE REST OF THE COLNTRY.

U. STATE ARMY AIR CINCSO.

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