124-90084-10077
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Date:
4/30/201
AGENCY: FBI
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124-90084-10077
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HQ
AGENCY FILE NUMBER: CR 109-12-209-727
ORIGINATOR:
Identification Form
Agency Information
Document Information
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
FROM:
CIA
TO:
TITLE:
DATE:
PAGES:
10/06/1971
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SUBJECTS:
CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC REGIONAL SEMINAR FOR
CENTRAL AMERICAN C
LAUREANO BATISTA FALLA
PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT
DOCUMENT TYPE:
CLASSIFICATION:
RESTRICTIONS:
CURRENT STATUS:
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DIRECTORATE OF
PLANS
This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title 18, U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the
transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
SECRET
COUNTRY
DOI
NO FOREIGN DISSEM
THIS IS AN INFORMATION REPORT, NOT FINALLY EVALUATED INTELLIGENCE
• POLITICAL MATTERS
GROUP ↑
Excluded from outomatic.
downgrading and deconification
CIA HAS NO OBJECTIONCTIE TDCS -314/10539-71
DECLASSIFICATION AND/OR
RELEASE OF CIA INFORMATIONIST 6 OCTOBER 1971
IN THIS DOCUMENT. EXCEPT THE the BRACKETS
KP 
10-10797
COSTA RICA/CENTRAL AMERICA
19-25 SEPTEMBER 1971
11-7-97 (JFIC).
SUBJECT CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC REGIONAL SEMINAR FOR CENTRAL
ACQ
AMERICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC LEADERS
ALL FBI INFORMATION CONTAINED
HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED
DATE 5-23-94 BY SPB MAC/EH
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EL SALVADOR, SAN SALVADOR (29 SEPTEMBER 1971) FIELD NO.. [HSS-2550
50] S
SOURCE(S) A
DEPUTY OF THE CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY IN THE NATIONAL
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY. HE IS A USUALLY RELIABLE REPORTER.
HE OBTAINED THE INFORMATION FROM A PERSON WHO ATTENDED THE
SEMINAR.
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1. WHILE THE 19 TO 25 SEPTEMBER 1971 SEMINAR AT ALA JUELA,
COSTA RICA, FOR SENIOR REPRESENTATIVES OF THE CHRISTIAN DEMO-
CRATIC PARTIES AND MOVEMENTS OF CENTRAL AMERICA WAS ENTITLED
"THE STRATEGY OF SOCIAL POWER," THE TRUE PURPOSE OF THE SEMINAR
8 OCT 14 1971
WAS TO ACCOMPLISH A VERY DETAILED ANALYSIS OF THE POLITICAL SITUA
TION IN EL SALVADOR, GUATEMALA, HONDURAS, NICARAGUA, PANAMA, AND
COSTA RICA. TO THIS END, THE TWENTY-FOUR PARTICIPANTS IN THE
SEMINAR WERE PRESENTED AT THE OUTSET WITH A VERY DETAILED
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QUESTIONNAIRE PREPARED BY THE INSTITUTE FOR CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC
FORMATION (IFEDEC) CONCERNING THE POLITICAL SITUATION IN EACH OF
THE SIX CENTRAL AMERICAN COUNTRIES. LAUREANOBATISTA, THE
IFEDEC REPRESENTATIVE AT THE SEMINAR, REQUESTED THAT REPRESENTA-
TIVES FROM EACH OF THE COUNTRIES PREPARE WRITTEN REPLIES TO THE
QUESTIONNAIRE.
2. COSTA RICAN AND NICARAGUAN REPRESENTATIVES, PARTICULARLY
JORGE ✗MONGE OF COSTA RICA, REACTED IN AN EXTREMELY NEGATIVE
AND SUSPICIOUS FASHION TO THE IFEDEC QUESTIONNAIRE AND REFUSED TO
OTHER REPRESENTATIVES HAD LITTLE DESIRE
PROVIDE WRITTEN ANSWERS.
CR
THOSE
TO PROVIDE WRITTEN ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONNAIRE BUT GENERALLY DID
NOT REACT AS STRONGLY AS DID THE COSTA RICANS AND NICARAGUANS.
MOST OPPOSED TO BATISTA'S REQUEST EXPRESSED THE VIEW THAT THE
QUESTIONNAIRE WAS AN IFEDEC PLOY TO OBTAIN INFORMATION CONCERNING
THE SITUATION IN CENTRAL AMERICA AND THEY DUBBED THE QUESTIONNAIRE
EFFORT OPERATION CAMELOT, " BATISTA EXPLAINED THAT THE INFORMATION
REQUESTED WAS REQUIRED BY THE LATIN AMERICAN CENTER FOR INFORMATION
(CIDAL), AN ORGANIZATION RECENTLY FOUNDED IN CARACAS BY THE AMERICAN
CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC ORGANIZATION (ODCA) AND HEADED BY BATISTA.
VEN
THE SALVADORAN REPRESENTATIVES AT THE SEMINAR, AT LEAST, HAD NEVER
BEFORE HEARD OF DAL. IT WAS FINALLY DECI
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