 Some 30 militants and sympathisers among the civilian population provided safe houses to the guerrillas and a means to escape.They demanded and received a ransom of $60 million in cash, as well as $1.2 million worth of food and clothing to be given to the poor.Under López Rega's orders, the Triple A began kidnapping, and killing members of Montoneros and the People's Revolutionary Army (ERP), as well as other leftist militant groups.