FLIGHTS EXPOSED. IN VENEZUELA
The United States is flying Ue type. spy planes over Venezuela, according to a report published in the Mareh 10 issue of Pueblo y Revolucién, the underground publication of the FALN [Fuerzas Armadas. de liberaoién Nacional -- Armed Forces of National Liberation]. ‘The information was obtained by the Intelligence Service of the FALN.
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The preoccupation of imperialism over the upsurge of guerrilla forces in many colonial and semicolonial countries who are struggling for liberation, has. become an obsession, a veritable psychosis, Fifty-seven thousand (57,000) antiguerrilla experts of the State Department are now engaged in fighting national focal centers and giving instruction to native traitors to cowmteract this method of liberation chosen by the peoples,
The main counterguerrilla training camps are in Panama, South Vietnam, Europe and North America itself. But not content with — this, in each country annual courses. are being given against rebel- . lion, Here in Venezuela, foe example, courses are being given at San Juan de los Morros, Puerto Cabello, La Mariposa, Conejo Blanco, etc, With the approval of the traitor governments, the State Depart-. ment is making desperate efforts to smash the people's liberation movements, trampling on national sovereignty and dignity to impose plans that have nothing to do with the reality in our countries,
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The Intelligence Service of the FALN has exposed a plan elaborated by the hated Yankee Military Mission, which is operating in Venezuela, that violates our national sovereignty, diverts money from the nation and converts the Venezuelan army into a mere automaton in the service of interests foreign to our people. The plan is the following:
Since February North American planes of the U=-2 type called P-2V have been flying at high altitudes over the ceuntry!'s ooast. The planes are equipped with rader of 100 miles radius and fly constantly back and forth along the coast in an east-west direction, The P-2Vis are in communication with three destroyers of the Vene~zuelan navy located in the west, the center and the east of the country. They are equipped with radar of more than 200-mile radius, In addition they remain in touch with the Centro Operacional de ‘Comunicaciones: (COC) installed at Conejo Blanco, a centralized organ-~ ism for military communications in the country. Through this center, or directly, the P-2V's order light B-25 bombers which can act as_ interceptors, or F-8 6ts. which are genuine intercéptors.
The function ‘of this military equipment, -which is costly to keep in astion, is nothing less than to combat the growing deve lopment of the guerrilla forces and to intercept their points of supply. The North American militarists and their native agents forget that such technical measurés are of little efficacy in face of the. decision of thé peoples to mount a war of liberation, They aiso forget that the traitors and those who sell-out their country are only a camarilla at the top of the army and that the great majority of our officers, noncoms and soldiers are honest and are joining the FALN on an increasing scale, In their posts in official bodies, in street struggles or in guerrilla detachments, they know how to fight at the side of the. people to defeat imperialism in its drive for domination,
We call on all the civilian and military patriots to sabotage this antinational plan imposed by the Yankee Mission.