#Peru
4 entries tagged Peru.
Organizations (3)
- Ocho Group The Ocho Group was a chain of five small Peruvian newspapers that Shining Path leader Abimael Guzman Reynoso asked Israel to purchase on his movement's behalf as part of a deal to secure rare minerals for Israel's nuclear program.
- Shining Path The Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso) is a Maoist terrorist group in Peru founded and led by Abimael Guzman Reynoso, a former philosophy professor, active since the early 1980s.
- University of San Cristobal The University of San Cristobal de Huamanga in Ayacucho, Peru, was where Shining Path founder Abimael Guzman Reynoso taught philosophy and where Ari Ben-Menashe used a faculty appointment as cover for an Israeli intelligence mission.
Places (1)
- Ayacucho Ayacucho is a city in the Andean highlands of Peru that served as the founding base of Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path), the Maoist guerrilla movement that launched its armed insurgency in 1980 and fought a conflict that killed approximately 69,000 people; it appears in this vault as the origin point of the Shining Path insurgency that prompted CIA advisory involvement in Peruvian counterinsurgency operations.