[1]124-90084-10077| | | 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 |
[2]; JFK Assassination System Date: 4/30/201
[4]Identification Form
[6]Agency Information
[8]AGENCY: FBI
[9]RECORD NUMBER: = 124-90084-10077
[10]RECORD SERIES: HQ
[11]AGENCY FILENUMBER: CR 109-12-209-727
[12]. Document Information
[13]ORIGINATOR: CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
[15]FROM: CIA
[16]TO:
[17]TITLE:
[19]DATE: 10/06/1971
[21]PAGES: 3.
[23]SUBJECTS :
[24]. CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC REGIONAL SEMINAR FOR
[25]CENTRAL AMERICAN C
[26]LAUREANO BATISTA FALLA
[27]DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT
[28]CLASSIFICATION: Secret
[29]RESTRICTIONS: 1B
[30]CURRENT STATUS: — Redact
[31]DATE OF LAST REVIEW: , 07/14/1998
[32]OPENING CRITERIA: APPROVAL OF CIA
[33]COMMENTS: CABLEGRAM
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[44]nsmission or revelation, of which aul any, manner tear unouthorize: arson is * prehinined: by low oe
[46]f NO ‘FOREIGN. ‘DISSEM :
[47]ee _ ~ THIS AS AN INFORMATION REPORT, Nor FINALLY EVALUATED. INTELLIGENCE
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[61]: LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY... HE. 18 Ay USUALLY ‘HELIABLE. ‘REPORTER. woes a oo
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[75]THE STRATEGY. ‘OF SOCTAL PONER, a THE, TRUE PURPOSE SS ni SEERA
[78]ne ia HAS 70 ACCOMPLISH. ‘A VERY DETAILED ANALYSIS, OF. THE. "POLITICAL - z
[80]Pe TION IN EL. SALVADOR, “GUATEMALA, “HONDURAS | (NICARAGUA, PANAMA, - AND had
[81]_ 7 - COSTs. RICA, : TO. ‘THIS END, “THE TWENTY- FOUR PARTICIPANTS IN. THE on
[82]t | SEMINAR | WERE PRESENTED AT THE OUTSET WITH ‘A VERY DETAILED vd a
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[93]ROUTINE | Joete-/0079 ,
[95]a FORMATION. -GFEpEC) CONCERNING THE. POLIT Ich SNSITUATION IN IN ‘EACH OF.
[97]THE SIX CENTRAL AMERICAN COUNTRIES. LAUREANO) BA T I S T A, pee
[98]~ GK.
[99]_ LFEDEC REPRESENTATIVE AT THE ‘SEMINAR, - REQUESTED THAT REPRESENTA-. ee
[101]“TIVES. FROM BACH OF THE COUNTRIES: ‘PREPARE: WRITTEN REPLIES TO THE
[103]| QUESTIONNAIRE.“
[105]RICAN. AND ‘NICARAGUAN REPRESENTATIVES , ‘PARTICULARLY
[107]LOF COSTA. RICA,. REACTED IN, AN ‘EXTREMELY NEGATIVE
[110]AND SUSPICIOU: ; FASHION TO THE IFEDEC QUESTIONNAIRE. AND. REFUSED TO.
[112]PROVIDE 1 WRITTEN ANSWERS. - OTHER REPRESENTATIVES. HAD: LIT PTLE DESIRE
[113]20) PROVIDE WRITTEN ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONNAIRE ‘BUT GENERALLY pm
[114]Nor: REACT AS STRONGLY As DID THE. Costa RICANS’ AND NICARAGUANS. THOSE
[115]MOST. OPPOSED TO BATISTA’ s REQUEST EXPRESSED THEY VIEW. THAT: THE:
[116]- QUESTIONNAIRE WAS All TFEDEC PLOY ‘TO OBTAIN INFORMATION! CONCERNING
[118]_ THE SITUATION: IN CENTRAL A SRI GAS AND, THEY ‘DUBBED: THE QUESTIONNAIRE
[120]. EFFORT. “OBERAT TON. CAMELOT, ' - ATISTA. EXPLAINED. THAT. _THE. INFORMATION
[122]- REQUESTED WAS REQUIRED BY THE ATIN AMERICAN CENTER me INFORMATION
[124]“(CIDAL) , AN ORGANT ZATION. RECENTLY FOUNDED IN. CARACAS ‘BY THE, SIERICAN
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[127]. CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC..« ORGANIZATION. “(ODCA) _AND ‘HEADED BY ‘BATISTA.
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