[Marxism] Colombia: The Truth about AAA

[Greg McDonald]

National Security Archive Update, July 1, 2007

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

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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  
Bogotá 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 Día. 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 Medellín.

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.

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