CABLE ADVISING OF BANNER HEADLINE IN 'EXCELSIOR'
Originator: CIA
From: MEXICO CITY
To: DIRECTOR
Document date: 08/10/1978
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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1 .

"EXCELSIOR" OF 10 AUGUST CARRIES BANNER HEADLINE ON PAGE 3

"CIA ENGAGED IN DESTABILIZATION OF SIX LATIN AMERICAN NATIONS."

LEAD COLUMN GIVEN OVER TO AFP DISPATCH DATELINED RIO DE JANEIRO

WHICH CITES "ULTIMA HORA" STORY ATTRIBUTED TO UNNAMED BRAZILIAN

MILITARY SOURCES.

2.

STRIKES OCCURRING IN BRAZIL DURING PAST SEVERAL MONTHS ARE

SAID TO BE ONE PHASE OF OFFENSIVE UNLEASHED BY CIA AND THE TRANSO

NATIONAL COMPANIES TO DESTABILIZE REGIME OF GENERAL ERNESTO GEISEL

AND SECURE ANNULMENT OF NUCLEAR AGREEMENT BETWEEN WEST GERMAN AND

BRAZIL.

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3.

ACCORDING TO "ULTIMA HORA" BRAZILIAN MILITARY AUTHORITIES

BELIEVE THAT THERE WAS AN ATTEMPT AT DESTABILIZATION IN BOLIVIA.

AND THAT THE ARMED FORCES INTERVENED AND BROUGHT BRIGADIER JUAN

PERED A ASBUN TO POWER WHEN THEY DETECTED A COUP IN THE MAKING

TO REPLACE THE PRESIDENT-ELECT, BEING ORGANIZED BY ELEMENTS WHICH

HAD THE BACKING OF WASHINGTON.

4. THE SAME SOURCES, ACCORDING TO "ULTIMA HORA," POINTED OUT

THAT THE RECENT EVENTS IN CHILE AND THE ANNOUNCEMENTS IN THE U.S.

REGARDING THE SUPPOSEDLY IMMINENT FALL OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE

CHILEAN MILITARY JUNTA, GENERAL AUGUSTO P IN O CHE T. REVEAL CIA

• ACTION TO DESTABILIZE THE GOVERNMENT OF THAT COUNTRY.

FURTHERMORE THEY CONSIDER THAT THE CONSTANT WORK STOPPAGES IN

•THE SUBSIDIARIES OF THE TRANS-NATIONALS IN ARGENTINA-- THE MOST RECENT

BEING IN THE GENERAL MOTORS PLANT--TOGETHER WITH BUENOS AIRES' ADVANCES

AND RETREATS ON THE DIPLOMATIC FRONT, THESE DESPITE THE FACT THAT THE

GOVERNMENT OF GENERAL JORGE VID EL A FAVORS THE ESTABLISHMENT OF

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A COMMON FRONT AGAINST THE INTERESTS OF WASHINGTON, DEMONSTRATE THE

CIA ACTION AGAINST THE ARGENTINE REGIME. THIS FRONT WOULD BRING TO-

GETHER URUGUAY, PARAGUAY, BOLIVIA, CHILE, AND ARGENTINA, FORMING

"THE HOLY ALLIANCE OF THE SOUTHERN CONE," SAID "ULTIMA HORA."

6.

"LA PRENSA" RAN SAME AFP DISPATCH, WITH ADDITION OF FOLLOWING

PARAGRAPH: THE ALLEGED EXCHANGE OF LETTERS BETWEEN THE PRESENT CAN-

DIDATE FOR THE BRAZILIAN PRESIDENCY, GENERAL JOAO BAPTISTA DE

DIDATE FOR THE HAZELTAN

FIGUERIRED O, WHEN HE WAS HEAD OF THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE

SERVICE (SNI) AND GENERAL SEPUL VED A CONTRERAS, WHEN THE

LATTER HEADED THE CHILEAN DINA, WAS ALSO LAID TO THE CIA BY THE

BRAZILIAN MILITARY SOURCES MENTIONED BY "ULTIMA HORA."

ACCORDING

TO THESE SOURCES, GEISEL IS NOT DYING WITH LOVE FOR GENERAL AUGUSTO

PINOCHET BUT THE CONSTANT ATTACKS OF THE NORTH AMERICANS DICTATED

THAT BRAZIL DISCREETLY SUPPORT THE REGIME IN SANTIAGO.

7.

"NOVEDASES" LIKEWISE PUBLISHED THIS WIRE STORY BUT IN TRUNCATED

FORM, INCLUDING ONLY FIRST PARAGRAPH ABOUT BRAZIL AND COMMENTS ON

BOLIVIA.

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