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Cablegate: Visas Viper Monthly Report: Fy05 - November

Published: Wed 1 Dec 2004 12:58 PM
This record is a partial extract of the original cable. The full text of the original cable is not available.
UNCLAS MADRID 004552
SIPDIS
VISAS VIPER
DEPT FOR CA/VO/L/C AND INR/IC/TIPOFF
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: CVIS KVPR PTER ASEC CMGT PINR PREL
SUBJECT: VISAS VIPER MONTHLY REPORT: FY05 - NOVEMBER
REF: STATE 255122
1. THE VISAS VIPER COMMITTEE MET ON NOV. 8 AND ON NOV. 29,
2004, AS PART OF MADRID INTERAGENCY COUNTERTERRORISM WORKING
GROUP AND WAS CHAIRED BY THE CHARGE, ROBERT MANZANARES. THE
CHARGE EXPRESSED HIS APPRECIATION FOR THE CONTINUING STRONG
COOPERATION AND COMMITMENT TO THE PROGRAM BY ALL AGENCIES AT
POST.
2. DURING THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER 2004, MADRID SUBMITTED
EIGHT VISAS VIPER CABLES IDENTIFYING SEVENTY-ONE
INDIVIDUALS, TWENTY-FOUR SUSPECTED MEMBERS OF ETA AND FOURTY-
SEVEN SUSPECTED MEMBERS OF ISLAMIST TERRORIST GROUPS LINKED
TO AL-QAEDA.
3. CABLES REFERENCE NUMBER: MADRID 04322, 04386, 04387,
04388, 04389, 04474, 04523, 04524.
4. IN ADDITION, POST HAS SUBMITTED THREE TIPPIX MEMORANDUM
CONTAINING TEWNTY-SIX PHOTOGRAPHS OF SUSPECTS.
MANZANARES
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