1. PLANS OF STUDENTS FOR CONTINUED DISORDER ON 24 AND 25 MAY 2. POSSIBLE EXPLOI

Created: 5/24/1965

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THE STUDENTS AT NATIONAL UNIVERSITY IN BOGOTA PLAN TO ASSAULT THE POLICE ONND5 FOP THE PURPOSE OF INFLICTING CASUALTIES AND ROUTING THE POLICE. FOR THIS REASON THE STUDENTS ARE PREPARING CATAPULTS, SLINGSHOTS, METAL-TjPPED JAVELINS AND SHARPENED BAMBOO STICKS. THEY HAVf. SOME PISTOLS AND REVOLVERS ON THE UNIVERSITY CAMPUS AND ONE CR TWO SUBMACHINE GUNS HIDDEN. COMMENT. THE ESTIMATES OF SMALL ARMS VARY BETWEEN,

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STUDENTS PLAN TO ATTACK THE POLICE ON THE MORNINGUEXPECT TO BE JOINED BY MILITANT MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY(PCC) AND OTHER LEFTISTS AND EXTREMISTS IF THE IS SUCCESSFUL. THE COMMUNIST CONFEDERATION OF(CSTC) WILL SUPPORT THE ACTION OF THE STUDENTS WHENTO HAVE GAINED SOME HEADWAY. THE MEMBERS OF THE BOGOTA

CELLS OF THE PCC HAVE BEEN ALERTED TO JOIN THE STUDENTS UPON COMMAND OF THE PCC LEADERS. THE PCC MEMBERS HAVE BEEN INSTRUCTED TO CAUSE DESTRUCTION, SABOTAGE, AND IN GENERAL TO SUPPORT THE STUDENTS. THEY HAVE BEEN INSTRUCTED NOT TO ENGAGE IN FIRE FIGHTS.

ARE BEING MAOE BY LEFTIST GROUPS TO CALL ONTO REVOLT IF THE BOGOTA UPRISING APPEARS TO BEKEEPING THE GOVERNMENT SECURITY FORCES ENGAGED. ALFONSOLEFTIST LABOR LEADEREADER OF THE JURIDICALTHE DEFENSE OF HUMAN RIGHTS, HOPES TO GET SOME OF HISTHE IBAGUE-ARMENIA AREA IN THE DEPARTMENTS OF tol1ma ANDJOIN THE REVOLT. THE PCC AND THE WORKER-STUDENT-PEASANTPLAN TO ASK SUPPORT FROM THEIR RURAL MEMBERS. THEOF COLOMBIA- MARXIST/LENINIST (PCC-ML) IS READY FORIN THE AREAS NORTH OF BOGOTA, BUT HAS NO CONCRETE PLANS.

b.. COMMUNIST AND EXTREME LEFTIST LEADERS ARE MAKING PLANS TO GO INTO HIDING BECAUSE THEY ARE SURE THAT THEY WILL BE ARRESTED

IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE UPRISING BEGINS. DANIEL DIAZ PAEZ, PEORO LEON ARSOLEDA, MANUEL MANOTAS MANCTAS, ANO hum6ert0 BARBOSE( LEADERS OF THE PCC-ML, HAVE REMOVED ALL INCRIMINATING PAPERS AND PROPAGANDA FROM THEIR HOMES AND OFFICES AND PLAN TO GO INTO HIDING IF NECESSARY. ROMERO, ANTONIO RlASCOS AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE JURIOICAL COMMITTEE MAY ALSO GO INTO HIDING DEPENDING UPON THEIR ACTUAL INVOLVEMENT IN THE DISORDERS.

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