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From: CIA
Document date: 11/11/1976
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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AGENCY: FBI

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124-10291-10042

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AGENCY FILE NUMBER: CR 109-12-207-3360

DOCUMENT INFORMATION.

ORIGINATOR: CIA

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DATE: 11/11/1976

PAGES: 5-

SUBJECT:

OBA, ASSOC, POLIT, VENEZUELA

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COUNTRY. CHILE/VENEZUELA

DECLASSIFIED BY 5668 510/K50

ON 2: 26-96 (JFK

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21-22 OCTOBER 1976

SUBJECT? VISIT OF AN EMISSARY OF VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT CARLOS ANDRES

PEREZ TO EXPLAIN LATTER'S MOTIV D

C& ATTENDING FUNERAI OF

ORLANDO LETELIER

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CHILE; SAUTTAGO (S NOVEMBER 199138

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SOURCE: A RETIRED MILITARY OFFICER WITH GOOD CONNECTIONS THROUGHÖUT THE

MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT. HE IS A FAIRLY RELIABLE REPORTER.

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CARLOS ANDRES

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MEETING WITH GENERAL GUSTAVO X

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JUNTA. THE FOLLOWING DAY, RIVAS MET LEIGH AND TOLD HIM THAT

HE HAD BEEN SENT BY PRESIDENT PEREZ TO EXPLAIN THE LATTER'S

INTENTIONS IN PERSONALLY ATTENDING THE FUNERAL OF ORLANDO

LETELIER, FORMER CHILEAN AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED STATES

WHO WAS ASSASSINATED IN WASHINGION, D.C. ÖN 21 SEPTEMBER 1976

AND BURIED IN CARACAS.

¿. RIVAS TOLD LEIGH THAT PRESIDENT PEREZ DID NOT MEAN TO

AFFRONT THE CHILEAN GOVERNMENT BY HIS ACTION, BUT RATHER THAT HE

ATTENDED THE FUNERAL TO SHOW HIS RESPECT FOR VENEZUELA'S

DEMOGRATIC TRADITIONS. RIVAS SAID THAT PRESIDENT PEREZ HOPED HIS

ACTION HAD NOT BEEN MISINTERPRETED BY THE CHILEAN GOVERNMENT

AND THAT THERE WOULD BE NO HARD FEELINGS BETWEEN THE TWO

GOVERNMENTS OVER THE MATTER.

13. GENERAL LEIGH SAID THAT PRESIDENT, PEREZ' ACTION HAD

BEEN BADLY REGEIVED IN CHILE AND THAT HE PERSONALLY FOUND IT

DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND THE PRESIDENT'S MOTIVES. LEIGH SAID THAT

HE UNDERSTOOD' PEREZ" RESPECT FOR DEMOCRACY, BUT HE FELT THAT IN

LETELIER'S CASE, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN SUFFICIENT TO SEND A

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REPRESENTATIVE OF THE PRESIDENTIAL OFFICE: THE DECISION TO

PERSONALLY ATTEND THE FUNERAL HAS BEEN USED BY CHILE'S ENEMIES

TO EMBARRASS THE CHILEAN GOVERNMENT.

4. WHEN QUERIED ABOUT THE VENEZUELAN INVESTIGATION INTO

i.

THE LETELIER ASSASSINATION, RIVAS SAID THAT VENEZUELAN AUTHORITIES

HAD GONE ABOUT AS FAR AS THEY WANTED TO GO IN QUESTIONING ORLANDO

BOS CH, CUBAN EXILE LEADER, REGARDING HIS POSSIBLE INVOLVEMENT.

Cuba

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RIVAS POINTED OUT THAT BOSCH HAD POWERFUL FRIENDS CLOSE TO THE

VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT AND THAT PRESSURE WAS BEING APPLIED ON

BOSCH'S BEHALF. HE EXPRESSED DOUBT THAT ANY MORE INFORMATION WOULD

BE REVEALED BECAUSE: OF THE VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT'S RELUCTANCE TO

PRESS THE MATTER TOO FAR.

5. (SOURCE COMMENT: THE PRIMARY PURPOSE OF RIVAS' TRIP WAS

TO EXPLORE THE CHILEAN ATTITUDE TOWARD A PROPOSAL BY PRESIDENT

PEREZ TO HOLD A MEETING OF PRESIDENTS OF THE ANDEAN PACT COUNTRIES

TO TRY TO RESOLVE THE IMPASSE BETWEEN CHILE AND THE OTHER PACT

MEMBERS OVER IMPORT DUTIES AND FOREIGN INVESTMENT. VENEZUELA DID

NOT PLAN TO APPROACH ANY OTHER COUNTRIES UNTIL THE CHILEANS AGREED

TO THE IDEA; HOWEVER, THIS MATTER WAS OVERTAKEN BY EVENTS WITH.

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CHILE'S FORMAL WITHDRAWAL FROM THE PACT ON 30 OCTOBER.)

6. IN REQUESTING HIS MEETING WITH LEIGH, RIVAS ASKED

THAT HIS PRESENCE IN CHILE NOT BE MADE A MATTER OF PUBLIC

KNOWLEDGE: FOR THIS REASON, THE MEETING WAS ARRANGED TO TAKE

PLACE IN THE MINISTRY OF DEFENSE RATHER THAN AT DIEGO PORTALES

GOVERNMENT HOUSE, WHERE THERE IS A GREATER RISK OF DISCOVERY BY

REPORTERS.

7., (HEADQUARTERS COMMENT: A REPRESENTATIVE OF THIS AGENCY

(S) LIN CARACAS CONMENTED THAT ALTHOUGH RIVAS HAS, ON OCCASION, HANDLED

SPECIAL ASSIGNMENTS FOR THE PEREZ ADMINISTRATION, SUCH AN

ASSIGNMENT AS DESCRIBED. IN THIS REPORT IS UNUSUAL. IT IS OUT OF

CHARACTER FOR PEREZ TO EXPLAIN OR APOLOGIZE FOR HIS ACTIONS AND

IT APPEARS STRANGE THAT A PEREZ REPRESENTATIVE WOULD ADMIT THAT

BOSCH HAS POWERFUL FRIENDS IN THE VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT WHEN THE

GOVERNMENT HAS GONE TO GREAT LENGTHS TO ATTEMPT TO HIDE THIS FACT.)

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