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Viewing cable 05SANTIAGO2522, CHILE: 2005 COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM

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05SANTIAGO2522 2005-12-16 20:13 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED Embassy Santiago
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DE RUEHSG #2522/01 3502013
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
P 162013Z DEC 05
FM AMEMBASSY SANTIAGO
TO SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 8064
UNCLAS SANTIAGO 002522 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR S/CT - RHONDA SHORE, S/CT -- ED SALAZAR; STATE 
PLEASE PASS TO NCTC: RUEILB/NCTC WASHINGTON DC 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PTER PREL PGOV ASEC CI
SUBJECT: CHILE: 2005 COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM 
 
REF: STATE 193439 
 
1.  Below is the 2005 Country Report on Terrorism for Chile. 
Embassy point of contact is Stephanie Acosta-Mikulasek 
(acostamsm@state.gov; mikulaseks@state.sgov.gov; 
56-2-330-3394). 
 
GENERAL ASSESSMENT 
 
2.  The Government of Chile generally supports U.S. 
counterterrorism efforts.  They have taken an active interest 
in the potential activities of Islamic extremists connected 
to the Tri-border area of Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay and 
their links to the Free Trade Zone in Iquique, Chile.  Chile 
also continued its support of U.S. counterterrorism efforts 
in various international forums, including serving as chair 
of the UN's al-Qaida and Taliban sanctions committee last 
year.  Chile hosted the Third Ministerial Conference of the 
Community of Democracies in 2005, at which then-Minister of 
Interior Jose Insulza emphasized the importance of security 
as part of democracy building.  Chile is a signatory to the 
Asuncion Declaration of 2003, and President Lagos has joined 
other South American leaders in condemning terrorism and drug 
trafficking.  This declaration also expressed solidarity with 
Colombia in its domestic fight against terrorism. 
 
3.  The money-laundering statute enacted by the Chilean 
Congress in December 2003, law 19.913, includes terrorist 
financing.  With this law, the government's ability to freeze 
and seize assets was expanded, although the new provisions 
have yet to be applied in a criminal case.  It remains 
unclear how the statute will operate in practice or how 
swiftly Chile will be able to take action against identified 
terrorist assets.  This same legislation created a Financial 
Intelligence Unit ("Unidad de Analisis Financiero" or UAF) to 
investigate suspicious transactions reported by private 
financial institutions.  However, the Constitutional Tribunal 
ruled some of the UAF provisions to be unconstitutional, 
which led to the launch of a heavily handicapped UAF in April 
2004.  Slow efforts are underway to amend the laws within the 
bounds of the Constitution so that the UAF would have more 
investigative authority. 
 
4.  While Chile officially condemns terrorism and terrorist 
organizations, there is evidence of some private support 
among small groups in Chile for terrorist organizations such 
as Hizballah, anti-U.S. Islamist groups, FARC and anti-U.S. 
Bolivarian groups. 
 
5.  The current extradition treaty between Chile and the U.S. 
is more than 100 years old.  The U.S. and Chile continue to 
have exploratory meetings to update the treaty, but progress 
has been slow.  Meanwhile, Chile has not been responsive to 
extradition requests made by the Department of Justice.  In 
2005, only one expulsion case was successfully concluded from 
Chile to the U.S.  In addition, Chile's extradition requests 
from its neighbors have been equally unsuccessful.  For 
example, Argentina recently denied Chile's extradition 
request of Patriotic Front leader Galvarino Apablaza Guerra, 
one of the key perpetrators of the 1993 "softball" bombing. 
 
SANCTUARY ASSESSMENT 
 
6.  No declared acts of terrorism occurred in Chile in 2005. 
Officials appear to be informed of potential terrorist 
sympathizers residing in Chile.  Chilean action to eliminate 
terrorist sanctuary has been incremental and in accordance 
with their judicial proceedings.  Chile's cooperation with 
the U.S. is dependent on the particular individual or entity, 
and largely depends on the legal basis of the case.  The 
government pays relatively little attention to the issue of 
weapons of mass destruction. 
 
TERRORIST GROUPS 
 
7.  The Chilean government has offered no formal support to 
known or suspected terrorist organizations or individuals. 
However, because Chile does not officially recognize Iran's 
Hizballah as a terrorist organization, Hizballah is permitted 
to function as a charitable organization in northern Chile. 
 
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT COOPERATION 
 
8.  Chilean law enforcement agencies were consistently 
cooperative in investigating cases linked to international 
terrorism.  In the past, all investigations had to be 
directly related to prosecutable criminal offenses.  However, 
new legislation passed in 2005 allows intelligence-gathering 
to occur outside of the context of a specific case.  The 
plainclothes investigative police ("Policia Investigaciones 
de Chile" or PICH) continued to investigate several terrorism 
 cases, but no prosecutions were developed.  Chile's National 
Intelligence Agency ("Agencia Nacional Inteligencia" or ANI), 
established in October 2004, is an analytical body, largely 
reliant on PICH and the uniformed police, "Carabineros," for 
operations.  By law, the Chilean military is prohibited from 
actively seeking terrorist intelligence information and must 
submit any information it obtains to ANI. 
 
9.  The U.S. continued to support capacity-building in 2005. 
Personnel from PICH, Carabineros and ANI received 
counterterrorism training, equipment and even funding to 
improve their capabilities to combat terrorism and coordinate 
with U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies.  In May 
2005, approximately 70 Chilean judges received training on 
intellectual property rights (IPR) and the link between IPR 
violations and possible money laundering schemes.  Chile's 
designated counterterrorist reaction force "GOPE" (Grupo 
Operacion de Policia Especial), an approximately 450 person, 
nationwide unit of the Carabineros, received some USG-funded 
operational training, but continues to grapple with limited 
resources. 
 
10.  In 2005, Chile took active measures to combat terrorist 
activity regionally.  The Carabineros sent a modest force to 
assist the Argentinean security services during the Summit of 
the Americas held in Mar del Plata, Argentina.  Combined U.S. 
and Chilean counter-surveillance and observer teams were 
present throughout the Community of Democracies Ministerial 
held in Santiago. 
 
11.  Chile is a party to all of the 12 international 
conventions and protocols relating to terrorism. 
KELLY