- Secret - NOFORN NOCONTRACT ORCON- • Latin American Trends i I I ' • Seeret IS APPROVED FOR RELEASE DATE AUG2001 I CI SNLA 76-050 0730-76 September 22 1976 No I • • LATIN AMERICAN TRENDS This publication is prepared for regional specialists in the Washington community by the Western Hemisphere Division Office of Current Intelligence with occasional contributions from other offices within the Directorate of Intelligence Comments and queries are welcome They should be directed to the authors of the individual articles CONTENTS September 22 1976 Argentina-Cuba Castro support for Local Subversion • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 14 SEcaliT Argentina-Cuba Castro Support for Local Subversion Two leftist subversives in the hands of Argentine authorities have detailed what they claim is Cuban support for terrorism in Argentina Argentine security forces last month captured Patricio Biedmaand Mario Espinosa Chileans who for some time had been working for the terrorist cause in Argentina Biedma says he was both the leader of Chile's Leftist Revolutionary Movement MIR in Argentina and that group's delegate to the Revolutionary Coordinating Junta JCR a loose coalition of regional terrorist organizations Espinosa claims also to have been a MIR member and most recently a combatant for the Argentine Peoples Revolutionary Army ERP Biedma states that he met frequently with an officer of the Cuban embassy in Buenos Aires who on a regular basis provided funds for the JCR as well as for the ERP and Montoneros j 'I' ' Espinosa echoes the assertion that Cuba's embassy provides funds to Argentine leftists and says that he himself was trained in Cuba and then introduced to the ERP by a Cuban contact in Argentina ' Argentine authorities began investigating links between the terrorists and the Cuban embassy almost immediately following the March coup By mid-summer the Argentines were said to be nearly certain that the embassy was providing a safe haven for top ERP members and others ass iated with that group -14- - SECRiT - • -15- September 22 1976