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Special Intelligence Group
The Special Intelligence Group (Spanish: Grupo Especial de Inteligencia, GEIN) was a special branch of the National Police of Peru (PNP) that responsible for clandestine and covert operations, counterinsurgency, counterintelligence, domestic counterterrorism, intelligence gathering and assessment on threats to the persons or groups that acts as a threat to public security that are under the responsibility of the police authority, and support investigation complex cases.
It was created within its Dirección contra el terrorismo (DIRCOTE) with the purpose of counterinsurgency, counterintelligence, intelligence gathering and assessment on threats to the persons or groups that acts as a threat to public security, and locating and capturing the leadership bodies of domestic terrorist groups operating since 1980: the Shining Path and the Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement.
This unit is historically remembered for having carried out the capture of Shining Path leader Abimael Guzmán, who was arrested along with part of his central committee on September 12, 1992. It was dissolved on October 3, 1993, becoming the Regional Terrorism Investigation Department 1 (Spanish: Departamento de Investigación de Terrorismo Regional 1, DITER 1). For their work, the group's former members were declared "Heroes of Democracy" by Peru's Congress in 2017.
The GEIN was created on March 5, 1990 during the first presidency of Alan García, with Agustín Mantilla Campos as Minister of the Interior and PNP Lieutenant General Fernando Reyes Roca as Senior Director. The founding members of the GEIN were Colonel Manuel Tumba Ortega, Major Benedicto Jiménez Bacca, Captain Félix Castro Tenorio, Lieutenant Joe Sánchez Alva, Second Lieutenant Jorge Augusto Luna Chu and Agent Jaime Cubas Hidalgo. As a reference, the GEIN adopted the thought of the Chinese philosopher Sun Tzu to confront Gonzalo Thought and Marxism in general.
During its three-year history, the GEIN participated in a number of counter-subversive operations. Its best known operation, code-named "Operation Victoria", is the 1992 capture of Shining Path leader Abimael Guzmán.
Operation ISA (Spanish: Operación ISA) was the group's first operation against the Shining Path. It began after an anonymous letter was left at Jorge Chávez International Airport by a woman whose daughter had been kidnapped by the group, begging authorities to investigate a woman known as Judith Díaz Contreras ("Comrade Isa"), an administrative employee at the National Agrarian University who had already been detained in 1985 but released. The letter included the address of a house where youngsters were indoctrinated on Marxism and recruited into the Shining Path. Díaz was a member of the Shining Path's Grupo de Apoyo Partidario (GAP), which was led by Carlos Manuel Torres Mendoza ("Comrade Javier") and hid terrorists that arrived in Lima. Meanwhile, the Departamento de Apoyo Organizativo (DAO) was led by Elvia Nila Zanabria Pacheco ("Comrade Juana") and served as a link with the group's leadership and as an archival group for newspaper clippings.
An intelligence operation took place from March 5 to June 1, 1990, ending with a raid on three houses in La Victoria, Monterrico, and Chorrillos. It led to the capture of 22 suspects, tons of documents, and the dissolution of the two entities of the group.
Operation Monterrico-90 (Spanish: Operación Monterrico-90) took place from June 3 to September 19, 1990. It also targeted the group's propaganda apparatus, leading to the capture of the Aparato Central de prensa y propaganda of the Shining Path's central committee.
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Special Intelligence Group
The Special Intelligence Group (Spanish: Grupo Especial de Inteligencia, GEIN) was a special branch of the National Police of Peru (PNP) that responsible for clandestine and covert operations, counterinsurgency, counterintelligence, domestic counterterrorism, intelligence gathering and assessment on threats to the persons or groups that acts as a threat to public security that are under the responsibility of the police authority, and support investigation complex cases.
It was created within its Dirección contra el terrorismo (DIRCOTE) with the purpose of counterinsurgency, counterintelligence, intelligence gathering and assessment on threats to the persons or groups that acts as a threat to public security, and locating and capturing the leadership bodies of domestic terrorist groups operating since 1980: the Shining Path and the Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement.
This unit is historically remembered for having carried out the capture of Shining Path leader Abimael Guzmán, who was arrested along with part of his central committee on September 12, 1992. It was dissolved on October 3, 1993, becoming the Regional Terrorism Investigation Department 1 (Spanish: Departamento de Investigación de Terrorismo Regional 1, DITER 1). For their work, the group's former members were declared "Heroes of Democracy" by Peru's Congress in 2017.
The GEIN was created on March 5, 1990 during the first presidency of Alan García, with Agustín Mantilla Campos as Minister of the Interior and PNP Lieutenant General Fernando Reyes Roca as Senior Director. The founding members of the GEIN were Colonel Manuel Tumba Ortega, Major Benedicto Jiménez Bacca, Captain Félix Castro Tenorio, Lieutenant Joe Sánchez Alva, Second Lieutenant Jorge Augusto Luna Chu and Agent Jaime Cubas Hidalgo. As a reference, the GEIN adopted the thought of the Chinese philosopher Sun Tzu to confront Gonzalo Thought and Marxism in general.
During its three-year history, the GEIN participated in a number of counter-subversive operations. Its best known operation, code-named "Operation Victoria", is the 1992 capture of Shining Path leader Abimael Guzmán.
Operation ISA (Spanish: Operación ISA) was the group's first operation against the Shining Path. It began after an anonymous letter was left at Jorge Chávez International Airport by a woman whose daughter had been kidnapped by the group, begging authorities to investigate a woman known as Judith Díaz Contreras ("Comrade Isa"), an administrative employee at the National Agrarian University who had already been detained in 1985 but released. The letter included the address of a house where youngsters were indoctrinated on Marxism and recruited into the Shining Path. Díaz was a member of the Shining Path's Grupo de Apoyo Partidario (GAP), which was led by Carlos Manuel Torres Mendoza ("Comrade Javier") and hid terrorists that arrived in Lima. Meanwhile, the Departamento de Apoyo Organizativo (DAO) was led by Elvia Nila Zanabria Pacheco ("Comrade Juana") and served as a link with the group's leadership and as an archival group for newspaper clippings.
An intelligence operation took place from March 5 to June 1, 1990, ending with a raid on three houses in La Victoria, Monterrico, and Chorrillos. It led to the capture of 22 suspects, tons of documents, and the dissolution of the two entities of the group.
Operation Monterrico-90 (Spanish: Operación Monterrico-90) took place from June 3 to September 19, 1990. It also targeted the group's propaganda apparatus, leading to the capture of the Aparato Central de prensa y propaganda of the Shining Path's central committee.
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