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2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Date:

Agency Information

4/30/201

AGENCY :

RECORD NUMBER :

FBI

124-90084-10077

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: CR 109-12-209-727

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

FROM:

CIA

TO:

TITLE:

DATE:

10/06/1971

PAGES:

3

SUBJECTS :

• CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC REGIONAL SEMINAR FOR

CENTRAL AMERICAN C

LAUREANO BATISTA FALLA

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Secret

RESTRICTIONS: 1B

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: : 07/14/1998

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STATE/INR DIA NMEC/MC (SECDEF JES ARMY NAVY AIR) CIA/NMCC NIC NSA SDO ONE CRS JOREXHIRS

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a feting a Maria venue riten St promithia ty mening of the Espionage laws, Title 18, U.S.C. Socs: 793 ond: 796, tho

NO FOREIGN DISSEM

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SECRET

CIA HAS NO OBJECTIONCITE TDCS - 314/10539-71

DECLASSIFICATION ANDTOR,

"POLiTICAL MATTERS

RELEASE OF CIA INFORMATICRIST

6 OCTOBER 1971

COUNTRY

COSTA RICA/CRSTRAL AMERICIN THIS DOCUMENT EXCE thE BACKETS

DOI

19-25 SEPTEMBER 1971

SUBJECT

CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC REGIONAL SEMINAR

FOR. CENTRAL

AMERICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC LEADERS

ALL FBI INFORMATION CONTAINED

HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED

DATE 5-23-8/875PaMAGEN

ACQ

EL SALVADOR, SAN SALVADOR (29 SEPTEMBER 1971) HELD NO. CESS-2550J(S)

SOURCES) A DEPUTS 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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WHILE THE 19 TO 25 SEPTEMBER 1971 SEMINAR AT ALAJUELA,

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

THE SEMINAR

OCT 14 1971

WAS TO ACCOMPLISE A VERY DETAILED ANALYSIS OF THE POLITICAL SITUAT

TION IN EL SALVADOR, GUATEMALA, HONDURAS, NICARAGUA, PANAMA, AND

COSTA RICA.

TO THIS END, THE TWENTY-FOUR PARTICIPANTS IN THE

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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. LAUREANO BAT IS TA, THE

CR.

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 XMON GE OF COSTA RICA, REACTED IN AN EXTREMELY NEGATIVE

AND SUSPICIOUS FASHION TO THE IFEDEC QUESTIONNAIRE AND REFUSED TO

PROVIDE WRITTEN ANSWERS. OTHER REPRESENTATIVES HAD LITTLE DESIRE

TO PROVIDE WRITTEN ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONNAIRE BUT GENERALLY DID

NOT REACT AS STRONGLY AS DID THE COSTA RICANS AND NICARAGUANS. THOSE

MOST.OPPOSED TO BATISTA'S REQUEST EXPRESSED THELVIEW. 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

ATIN AMERICAN CENTER FOR INFORMATION

(CEDES, AN ORGANIZATION RECENTLY POUNDED IN CARACAS DE FUEXMERICAN

CHRISTIAN DEMOCRALIC ORGANIZATION WEN

(ODCA) AND HEADED BY BATISTA.

THE SALVADORAN REPRESENTATIVES AT THE SEMINAR, AT LEAST, HAD NEVER

BEFORE HEARD OF

DAL. IT WAS FINALLY DECIT

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