willingness of the Security Council to provide the Supreme Court and the whole jurisdictional branch with “the necessary support and protection for fulfilling their delicate functions.” 813 • In September 1985, the National Police prepared and implemented the Tactical Plan for the defense of the Bolivar Plaza Complex, National Capitol, and Palace of Justice, “to establish the security measures that would adequately defend the buildings of the Bolivar Plaza Complex in order to deal with and repel a possible attack by subversive cells, ensuring the personal safety of the parliamentarians and other authorities.” 814 • As a result of these threats, the Judicial and Investigative Police (DIJIN) prepared a security assessment of the Palace of Justice, in which it indicated that “the National Directorate of the National Police [is] aware of the actual and potential risks to the personal integrity of the justices of the Supreme Court of Justice owing to the nature of their functions and, especially, as a result of the criminal intentions expressed by organized drug-trafficking bands.” 815 On October 17, this assessment was presented to the Supreme Court of Justice and the Council of State, and it was recommended that the measures of security be heightened by means of a Security Plan to be implemented by the Bogota Police Department. 816 • In an intervention before the Congress of the Republic on October 16, 1985, the Minister of Defense at the time stated that the General Command of the Military Forces had received an anonymous message advising that the M-19 planned to take the Palace of Justice the following day and that the Army’s Intelligence Directorate had advised that information and indications existed that the M-19 “intended to take over the building of the Supreme Court of Justice [and, therefore,] the Bogota Police Department had increased the surveillance of the building and the protection of the persons who already had safety measures.” 817 • That same day, the Head of the Army’s Intelligence Directorate sent out a circular letter in which he reported information provided by the General Command of the Military Forces “relating to the possible attack by M-19 on October 17, 1985.” This circular letter was sent out the following day by the Commander (E) of the Army’s 13th Brigade to the Bogota Police and to the DAS. Also, the Operations Commander 813 Cf. Judgment of the Contentious-Administrative Chamber of the Council of State, in the proceedings instituted by Cecilia Cabrera and another, of July 24, 1997 (evidence file, folio 526), and Report of the Truth Commission (evidence file, folio 100). 814 Tactical Plan of September 1985 (evidence file, folio 31667). According to the Director General of the National Police at the time of the events, this plan was implemented. Cf. Testimony of the Director General of the National Police of February 1986 before the Special Investigative Court (evidence file, folio 32212). 815 The assessment was prepared by the then DIJIN Counterintelligence official, Oscar Naranjo Trujillo. Cf. Affidavit made on November 8, 2013, by Oscar Naranjo Trujillo (evidence file, folios 35931 and 35932), and DIJIN, Security assessment: Palace of Justice, October 1985 (evidence file, folio 31731). 816 Testimony of the Director General of the National Police of February 1986 before the Special Investigative Court (evidence file, folio 32212), and DIJIN, Security assessment: Palace of Justice, October 1985 (evidence file, folios 31727 to 31799). 817 Cf. Judgment of the Contentious-Administrative Chamber of the Council of State, in the proceedings instituted by Cecilia Cabrera and another, of July 24, 1997 (evidence file, folio 527). In addition, Brigadier General José Luis Vargas Villegas has testified that “on October 16, 1985, a message was received from the Army’s Intelligence Director […] of the same date indicating that information from the General Command of the Military Forces, which had not been evaluated, indicated that the M-19 intended to take the building of the Supreme Court of Justice on October 17, 1985.” Testimony of José Luis Vargas Villegas of December 5, 1985, before the Attorney General’s office (evidence file, folio 554). 185