COLOMBIAN EMBASSY URGING GOP TO GO PUBLIC ABOUT

id: 26789
date: 2/10/2005 13:10
refid: 05ASUNCION211
origin: Embassy Asuncion
classification: SECRET
destination: 05ASUNCION199
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S E C R E T ASUNCION 000211

SIPDIS

STATE FOR WHA/BSC AND WHA/AND
STATE PASS TO USAID LAC/AA
NSC FOR TOM SHANNON/KIM BREIER
SOUTHCOM FOR POLAD DAN JOHNSON

E.O. 12958: DECL: 02/10/2015
TAGS: PREL PTER PINR KCRM SNAR CO PA
SUBJECT: COLOMBIAN EMBASSY URGING GOP TO GO PUBLIC ABOUT
FARC INVOLVEMENT IN KIDNAPPING

REF: A. ASUNCION 00199


B. ASUNCION 200

Classified By: Charge Kevin M. Johnson, reasons 1.4(b) and (d).


1. (S) Colombian PolOff Raul Sanchez advised PolOff that the
GOC wants the GOP to publicize as much information as
possible regarding the FARC's involvement in the Cecilia
Cubas kidnapping and other crimes in Paraguay, prior to
President Uribe's meeting with President Chavez next week.
The Colombian Embassy is urging Attorney General Oscar
Latorre to release information regarding email communication
between recently captured FARC leader Rodrigo Granda and
Patria Libre party members Osmar Martinez and Anuncio Marti
(reftels),including an email address believed to be
Granda's, but not the content of email messages. According
to Sanchez, Latorre plans to release the information around
noon on February 10.


2. (S) Sanchez added that the Colombian Ambassador in
Paraguay will ask Ambassador Keane to seek Embassy Bogota's
assistance in convincing Colombian intelligence services to
increase their focus on FARC activity in Paraguay.
JOHNSON

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