• • b 2 b 3 1 o use 424 Page 6 was denied in full and is not included DOCCLASS -eHEADER RR RUEAIIA DE RUEKJCS #9557 0112230 ZNY CCCCC R 112230Z JAN 94 FM DIA WASHINGTON DC INFO RUEADWD OCSA WASHINGTON DC RUENAAA CNO WASHINGTON DC RUEAHQA CSAF WASHINGTON DC RUEACMC CMC WASHJNG-'1QN J2J '- - - - ----- - -- - - - - - 4ki l2 MK · · i - RUWMBKA · RUETIAQ _· · · •· RUCBSAA · · · ·• · • •· f' _ CTlSACOM · • RUWSMXI RUCJACC L - - _ RUCQVAB JIS CJ N SOC · RUEOFAAL • · • RHLBAAA u scrncsoL • c__ _ _ c' -- '-' _ '---- --- -'-- - '- -' RUEHC SECSTATE WASHINGTON DC RUEAIIA CIA WASHINGTON DC RULKQANr b ·2 • - · RULSJGI · · • ··• · RUDMONI ·· RULKNIS ·- ' ' ' · ' · •' ' _ 1·•••· • 1 • ··· _r••• · • •• ·_ --_ _ • -' ·' _t • • -- ---'---'-- -'---'-- -- --- '- Jw RHWZMCC ··· 6 2 ' • • ' i _·• · ···1· ·• · · ·• · · -· - -_- R 1122262 JAN 94 b_l 2UlillillQ_JJ _$_c_A2 --- -- - --- - - ·· • · 'ij TO RUEKJCS DIA WASHDC INFO RHLBAAA USCINCSO 2 BT - - CONTROLS C 8 I F I B fl H T I J t e e TEXT h ' l o b atto usc4 I Ii E' I B fl ii SERIAL COUNTRY U U tj b f f i PERU PE UNITED KINGDOM OK FRANCE Page 1 · FR SPAIN SP ISRAEL IS COMBTNE COMPLETE susJ b F b 3- fp u99 lcHANGEs IN THE ARMY EQUALS ADVANTAGES FOR THE HIGH COMMAND 0 WARNING THIS IS AN INFORMATION REPORT NOT FINALLY EVALUATED INTELLIGENCE REPORT CLASSIFIED @ 8 HF I B H N ¥IA DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE DOI U 940110 l b 2 _ SOURCES A U WEEKLY MAGAZINE 'OI A• 940110 RIGHTIST WEEKLY READERSHIP ABOUT 95 000 HAS A NATIONALISTIC AND OFTEN ANTI-AMERICAN BENT IT RANKS SECOND IN ELITE INFLUENCE BUT rs A DISTANT THIRD IN NATIONAL MAGAZINE READERSHIP B U WEEKLY MAGAZINE SI 940110 CENTER-LEFT WEEKLY READERSHIP ABOUT 55 000 IS RESPECTED BY LEFT-OF-CENTER READERS BUT IS NO BETTER THAN FOURTH IN E SUMMARY U SPEARHEADED BY PERMIT HERMOZA GENERAL OF THE AS LONG AS THE THE RECENT PERUVIAN ARMY RESHUFFLING ARMY COMMANDER GENERAL HERMOZA WILL TO CONSOLIDATE HIS POSITION AS COMMANDER ARMY AND PRESIDENT OF THE JOINT COMMAND PRESENT REGIME REMAINS IN POWER TEXT 1 U SOURCE A REPORTED THAT COMt'J NDER GENERAL OF THE ARMY AND PRESIDENT OF THE JOINT COMMAND GENERAL NICOLAS DE BARI HERMOZA RIOS SUCCEEDED IN INFLUENCING PRESIDENT ALBERTO FUJIMORI FOJIMORI TO ACCEPT HIS CHOICES FOR PROMOTIONS AS WELL AS HIS RECOMMENDATIONS FOR RETIREMENTS AND ASSIGNMENTS IN THE PERUVIAN ARMY THUS ACHIEVING HIS GOAL OF CONSOLIDATING HIS POSITION FOR AS LONG AS THE PRESENT REGIME REMAINS IN POWER 2 U THE FOLLOWING REFLECTS GENERAL HERMOZA'S STRATEGY-- Page 2 - HE REPLACES LIEUTENANT GENERAL VICTOR GARCIA GONZALES WITH MAXIMO BRACAMONTE VARGAS AS INSPECTOR GENERAL OF THE ARMY HE SENDS GENERAL GARCIA TO A MILITARY POSTING IN FRANCE - HE REPLACES MAJOR GENERAL LUIS PEREZ DOCUMET CHIEF OF THE SPECIAL FORCES DIVISION GENERAL PEREZ IS MARRIED TO THE SISTER OF GENERAL BRIONES' WIFE WITH GENERAL MARCO ANTONIO RODRIGUEZ HUERTA HERMOZA THEN REWARDS PEREZ WITH A MILITARY POSTING IN SPAIN GENERAL PEREZ IS HEAVILY TIED TO THE LA CANTUTA CASE AS WELL AS OTHER HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE CASES SUCH AS THE DISAPPEARANCE OF SEVERAL STUDENTS FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF HUANCAYO AND THE BARRIOS ALTOS MASSACRE GENERAL RODRIGUEZ PREVIOUSLY ASSIGNED TO THE SUPREME COURT OF MILITARY JUSTICE WAS HANDLING THE LA CANTUTA CASE WHILE ASSIGNED THERE - GENERAL HERMOZA RIDS HIMSELF OF MAJOR GENERAL EDUARDO BELLIDO MORA CHIEF OF THE HUALLAGA FRONT BY SENDING HIM TO ISRAEL AS THE MILITARY ATTACHE AND REPLACING HIM WITH RECENTLY PROMOTED MAJOR GENERAL ALFREDO RODRIGUEZ RIVERO GENERAL BELLIDO WHILE COMMANDER GENERAL OF THE HUALLAGA FRONT ACCUSED SEVERAL MILITARY OFFICERS WITH NARCOTRAFFICKING MOST RECENTLY BELLIDO ACCUSED ARMY COLONEL EDUARDO ALVARADO REVOREDO AND LIEUTENANT COLONEL WALTER BUE CASTILLO WITH INVOLVEMENT IN NARCOTRAFFICKING RUMOR HAS IT THAT PRESIDENT FUjIMORI WANTED TO PROMOTE BELLIDO AND PEREZ HOWEVER 1 iH T WAS OPPOSED BY HER 10ZA · - HERMOZA PROMOTED LIEUTENANT COLONEL MANUEL GUZMAN CALDERON TO CQLONEL FOR THE PAST THREE YEARS GUZMAN HAS HELD THE POSITION OF COMMANDER COMANDO BATTALION RECENTLY PROMOTED TO COLONEL HE WILL REMAIN IN THE SAME POSTING IT IS SAID THAT GUZMAN IS GENERAL HERMOZA'S RIGHT HAND MAN PRIOR TO BEING CHIEF COMANDO BAT ALION GUZMAN WAS COMMANDER OF BIG 19 THIS UNIT PARTICIPATED IN THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE PROFESSOR AND NINE STUDENTS FROM LA CANTUTA UN VERSITY COLONEL GUZMAN WAS THE OFFICER WHO HANDED OVER THE NINE STUDENTS AND PROFESSOR TO MAJOR SANTIAGO MARTIN RIVAS · HERMOZA KEPT ALL OF HIS MILITARY REGION COMMANDERS IN PLACE WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE IV MILITARY REGION COMMAN ER IN CUSCO LIEUTENANT GENERAL PETRONIO FERNANDEZ-DAVILA CARNERO WHO WAS REPLACED BY RECENTLY PROMOTED LIEUTENANT GENERAL JOSE PICON ALCALDE GENERAL PICON WAS PREVIOUSLY ASSIGNED TO THE SUPREME COURT OF MILITARY JUSTICE BEFORE THE LA CANTUTA EXPOSE LIEUTENANT GENERAL RODOLFO ROBLES ESPINOSA THEN COMMANDER GENERAL OF TRAINING AND DOCTRINE CO - MAND CONFIDED IN HIS 'FRIEND GENERAL PICON '' - Page 3 ABOUT THE ARMY INVOLVEMENT IN THE LA CANTUTA DISAPPEARANCES GENERAL ROBLES ASKED PICON TO OPEN AN I VESTIGATION INTO THE CASE GENERAL PICON REFUSED AND INSTEAD REPORTED ROBLES TO GENERAL HERMOZA FIELD COMMENT--GENERAL ROBLES IS PRESENTLY RESIDING IN ARGENTINA WITH HIS FAMILY ON AN IMPOSED SELF-EXILE - THE DESIGNATION OF LIEUTENANT GENER AB GUIDO GUEVARA GUERRA AS PRESIDENT OF THE' SUPREME COURT OF MILITARY JUSTICE AT FIRST PRODUCED SOME RESISTANCE FROM OTHER SENIOR MILITARY OFFICERS BECAUSE THIS WOULD MEAN THAT FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE PERUVIAN ARMY A MEMBER OF THE MILITARY COURTS WOULD COMMAND GENERALS ASSIGNED TO THE COMBAT ARMS HERMOZA ARGUED THAT GENERAL GU VERA WAS BETTER EQUIPPED TO FACE THE PROBLEMS POSED BY THE LA CANTUTA CASE - GENERAL HERMOZA STILL HAS A FEW MORE CHANGES TO DO DURING THE COURSE OF THE YEAR IN MA 94 LIEUTENANT GENERAL ROBERTO SALDANA VARGAS THE CHIEF OF STAFF OF THE ARMY GENERAL STAFF WILL FACE MANDATORY RETIREMENT DUE TO AGE HERMOZA rs LOOKING AT GENERAL RODRIGUEZ PRESENTLY FIRST MILITARY REGION COMMANDER TO REPLACE SALDANA THIS WILL CAUSE SOME RESHUFFLING OF THE COMMANDERS OF THE MILITARY REGIONS HERMOZA CAN THEN ASSIGN THE POWERFUL FIRST MILITARY REGION TOP IS LOYAL GENERAL GENERAL PICON - THE ONLY POSITION LEFT TO ROUND OUT HERMOZA POWER BASE - POLITICAL AND MILITARY IS THE MINISTER OF DEFENSE POSITION WHISPERS IN THE HALLS OF THE PENTAGONITO PERUVIAN ARMY HEADQUARTERS RESOUND WITH THE PLANS TO REMOVE GENERAL MALCA AND REPLACE HIM WITH GENERAL VICTOR PIZARRO WHO IS PRESENTLY POSTED TO SPAIN PIZARRO IS FROM THE SAME GRADUATING CLASS OF HERMOZA IF PIZARRO IS UNAVAILABLE THEN THE OTHER CANDIDATE WOULD BE GENERAL JULIO SALAZAR MONROE CHIEF OF THE NATIONAL INTELLJ °GENCE · SERVICE SIN SALAZAR'S BROTHER GENEAAL LUIS SALAZAR MONROE WAS CHIEF OF THE SECOND MILITARY REGION WHEN THE LA CANTUTA CASE ERUPTED IF JULIO SALAZAR IS NAMED MOD VICE ADMIRAL AMERIGO IBARCENA WOULD OCCUPY THE SIN POSITION 3 U SOURCE B REPORTED THAT MAJOR GENERAL MARIO BRITO GOMERO EX-CHIEF OF THE ARMY PERSONNEL COMMAND COPERE HAS BEEN DESIGNATED AS MILITARY ATTACHE TO LONDON BRITO ON f ' REVIOUS ASSIGNMENT SERVED AS MILITARY ATTACHE TO•THE •UNITED STATES THIS SOURCE ALSO STATED THAT MAJOP 'GENERAL LOIS PEREZ DOCUMET WAS BEING ASSIGNED AS MILITARY ATTACHE TO FRANCE 4 - - Kb 1 J 4 c ' - · · GENERAL BELLI Do wAs DESIGNATED AS MILITARY ATTACHE TO ISRAEL s Kb 1 1 4 c - '- · ···· I GENERAL BRITO WAS · _ GEIHiliE iHPJ iEM Page 4 _ DESIGNATED AS MILITARY ATTACHE TO GREAT BRITAN -tet Kb 0 1 4 I STATED THAT MAJOR GENERAL LUIS MAYAUTE GHEZZI PRESENTLY CHIEF OF PLANS DIPLANO IS REPLACING GENERAL LUIS OGANES CORCUERA AT ARMY AVIATION COMMAND -· - • · - · _ b 1 f 4 _ c _ 6 - ' ' ' •' h •·•• • _ t·· - r - r - - - • I _ - ' •- j - --• ' - • - - - · · -_ i _· _ ·- - ' · ·'- - _- _ ' - -- - - - - 5 U DESPITE THE CONFLICTING INFORMATION PROVIDED BY SOURCES A AND B GENERAL PEREZ'S NEXT ASSIGNMENT REMAINS UNCONFIRMED BJ U fffl · · -- _i _ · · ·j PROJ CJ • ADMIN Lb 2 _ COLL Ul INSTR PREP U 0 ACQ U DISSE _ _ ·-·_--_ _-_·-i - - - - - - - - - - - tJ'--'- -'--'-F-I_E _L_D_ --- I MAAG WARNING ' _ _A _ - -c i ·· - ·-· _'' L - - ' - - - - - - - ' - - - ' - · · • · • • · - • · · U '' · - - - - I - REPORT CLASSIFIED _ ' • • Page 5 • I