[NYTr] US Docs Implicate Current,
 
Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2007 13:32:11 -0400

Via NY Transfer News Collective  *  All the News that Doesn't Fit
 
[More old news newly declassified. This may have some important role in
educating the current crop in Congress about what went on, and what's
undoubtedly still going on, in Colombia at the behest and with the
cooperation and training of the US -- along with lots of yankee dollars.
Today they call it the "war on drugs" and the "war on terror." -NYTr]

National Security Archive Update, July 1, 2007
http://www.nsarchive.org

THE TRUTH ABOUT TRIPLE-A

U.S. Document Implicates Current, Former Colombian Army Commanders
in Terror Operation

Army Commander Montoya Assigned to Intelligence Unit Behind 'American
Anticommunist Alliance,' Responsible for Bombings and other Violence

For more information contact:
Michael Evans - 202/994-7029

Washington DC, July 1, 2007 - As a growing number of Colombian
government officials are investigated for ties to illegal paramilitary
terrorists, a 1979 report from the U.S. Embassy in Bogota raises
new questions about the paramilitary past of the current army
commander, Gen. Mario Montoya Uribe.

The declassified cable, the focus of a new article being published
today on the Web site of Colombia's Semana magazine, answers
long-simmering questions about a shadowy Colombian terror ogranization
responsible for a number of violent acts in the late-1970s and
early-1980s. Long suspected of ties to the Colombian military, the
cable confirms that the American Anticommunist Alliance (Triple-A)
was secretly created and staffed by members of Colombian military
intelligence in a plan authorized by then-army commander Gen. Jorge
Robledo Pulido.

Gen. Montoya was first tied to Triple-A by five former military
intelligence operatives who detailed the group's operations in the
Mexican newspaper El Dma. The new evidence tying the Army's 'Charry
Solano' intelligence battalion to the terror group is likely to
refocus attention on Montoya's role in that unit. The new information
follows the publication in March of a secret CIA report linking
Montoya to a paramilitary terror operation in 2002-03 while commander
of an army brigade in Medellmn.

Along with previous Archive postings, the article, also published
in English on the Archive's Web site, is part of an effort by the
Colombia documentation project to uncover declassified sources on
Colombia's armed conflict, particularly its illegal paramilitary
terror groups, which are now engaged in a controversial demobilization
process with the government.

To read the article and associated documents on the Archive's Web site:
http://www.nsarchive.org

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