considered threats to the government.223 The group was christened the G-3 Special Strategic Intelligence Group and its coordinator was Fernando Ovalle Olaz.224 135. According to DAS documents dated October 26, 2005, one of the activities that G-3 was supposed to carry out was monitoring organizations and people opposed to government policies.225 The purpose of that was to “restrict or neutralize their activities.”226 136. The petitioners said that the group had the following objectives: (i) engaging in strategic intelligence activities and identification of risks and threats to the government and national security; (ii) neutralization or restriction of activities by persons and/or organizations with opposition leanings; (iii) engaging in offensive intelligence measures and psychological warfare; (iv) prosecution of select persons.227 The Office of the Attorney General said the following with regard to the purpose of G-3: In that group ... objectives or targets were continually selected whose common denominator was that they were opposed to the national government, and all manner of criminal acts were carried out against them, including illegal surveillance and eavesdropping on telephones, mobile telephones, and e-mails, with the specific aim of knowing their movements and alerting the national government to them, as well as designing strategies to weaken and intimidate anyone who adhered to a different ideology or convictions.228 137. The Commission notes that CCAJAR was selected as an action “target” by G-3.229 The G-3 coordinator, Jaime Fernando Ovalle Olaz, indicated as much, when he made the following statement: QUESTION: Who chose human rights organizations as a target of G3? ANSWER: They were originally selected by Dr. Narváez, whose priority was the José Alvear Restrepo Lawyers’ Collective and the Colombian Commission of Jurists, among others. Later he passed on various books and leaflets on NGOs on which we were together intelligence.230 138. The Commission also has information that G-3 used confidential information supplied to it by the Interior Ministry’s Protection Program for Human Rights Defenders.231 That was done in order to carry out so-called Operación Transmilenio against CCAJAR.232 According to reports by the Technical Investigation Corps (CTI) of the Office of the Attorney General, the overarching aim of the operation was to “neutralize the destabilizing activities of NGOs in Colombia and the world; the specific objective, to investigate links to narcoterrorist organizations with a view to their prosecution.”233 Office of the Attorney General, Case 12490-2. Statement of Carlos Alberto Arzayuz Guerrero, June 8, 2009. Annex 11 to the petitioners’ brief containing observations on merits, December 20, 2013. 224 Available at: http://www.semana.com/nacion/articulo/el-espionaje-peor/102429-3. Enclosed with the petitioners' communication of September 8, 2009; Office of the Attorney General, Special assignment 12495, Indictment against José Miguel Narváez et al. Annex 60 to the petitioners’ brief containing observations on merits, December 20, 2013. 225 Actions taken against CCAJAR and its members. Annex 76 to the petitioners’ brief containing observations on merits, December 20, 2013. 226 Actions taken against CCAJAR and its members. Annex 76 to the petitioners’ brief containing observations on merits, December 20, 2013. 227 Information presented at a public hearing on November 5, 2009, held in the framework of the 137th regular session of the IACHR. 228 Office of the Attorney General, Special assignment 12495, Indictment against José Miguel Narváez Martínez et al. Annex 60 to the petitioners’ brief containing observations on merits, December 20, 2013. 229 Office of the Attorney General, Special assignment 12495, Indictment against José Miguel Narváez Martínez et al. Annex 60 to the petitioners’ brief containing observations on merits, December 20, 2013. 230 Office of the Attorney General, Special assignment 12495, Indictment against José Miguel Narváez Martínez et al. Annex 60 to the petitioners’ brief containing observations on merits, December 20, 2013. 231 Office of the Attorney General, Case 12490-02, Preliminary questioning of Andrés Mauricio Peñate, July 1, 2009. Annex 72 to the petitioners’ brief containing observations on merits, December 20, 2013. Information presented at a public hearing on November 5, 2009, held in the framework of the 137th regular session of the IACHR. 232 Information presented at a public hearing on November 5, 2009, held in the framework of the 137th regular session of the IACHR. 233 Office of the Attorney General, CTI Report No. 498742 of November 10, 2009. Annex 58 to the petitioners’ brief containing observations on merits, December 20, 2013. 223 26