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The urban guerrilla who violates the:~ ryles must be warned by the first one who notes his infraction ang, if he repeats it, we must vavoid working with him. The need of the urban guerrilla to move about constantly and the relative proximity ef the police, given the circumstances of the ‘strat- egic police net which surrounds the city, forces him te adopt variable security methods depending on the encmy’s moveinents. For this reason it is necessary to maintain a service of daily news about what the enemy appears to be‘doing, where his police net is operating and what gorges and pomts of strangulation are being watched. The daily reading of police news in the newspapers is a great fountain of information in these cases. The most important lesson for guerrilla security 1s never, under any circumstances, to permit the slightest siqn of laxity in the main- tenance of security measures and requiatinns within the organization. Guerrilla security must be maintained alo and principally in cases of arrest. The arrested gucrrilla can reveal nothing to the police that witli jeopardize the organization He can say pothing that may Sead, as a consequence, to the arrest of other comrades. the discovery of ad- dresses and hiding places, tne loss of arms and ammunition. The Seven Sins of the Urban Guerrilla Even when tie urban guerrilla applics his revoluuonary technique with precision and rigorously abides by security rules. he can still be vulnerable to errors. There is no perfect urban guerrilla. The most he can do is to make every effort to dinunish the margin of error since he cannot be perfect. ~ One of the methods we should use to diminish the margin of error is to know thoroughly the seven sihs of the urban guerrilla and try to fight them. The first sin of the urban guerrilla is inexperience. The urban guerrilla, blinded by this sin, thinks the enemy is stupid. underesti- mates his intelligence. believes everythng is easy and, as a result, leaves clues that can lead to his disaster. Because of his inexperience, the urban querrilla can also overestimate the forces of the cnemy. believing them to be stronger than they really are, Allowing himself to be fooled by this presumption. thé urban guerrilla becomes intimidated. and remains insecure and indecisive. paralyzed and lacking in audacity. The second sin of the urban guerrilla ts to boast about the acticns he has completed and broadcast them to the four winds, The third sin of the urban guerrilla is vamet¥. The urban guerrilla who suffers from this sin tries to solve the oroblems of the revolution by actions erupting in the city, but without bothering about the begin- . nings and the survival of the guerrilla in rural areas, Blinded by success, he winds up organizing an action that he considers decisive and that puts into play all the forces and resources of the organization. Since the city is the area of the strategic circle which we cannot avoid 38 . hd,