The Web site, produced by a group calling itself the Pro-Defense of the
                  Truth Association, appeared a month ago and has scared opponents of
                  President Alberto Fujimori, who has close ties to the intelligence service.

                  Human rights groups have long accused Peru's powerful National
                  Intelligence Service of trying to intimidate its opponents and silence
                  journalists who report on human rights abuses or corruption.

                  The page, which contains more than 100 pages of text, has a "white list" and
                  a "black list" of prominent politicians and journalists in Peru, giving detailed
                  biographies and personal attacks on opposition figures.

                  Among the 13 people on the "black list" are the publisher of Peru's main
                  opposition newspaper, Gustavo Mohme, popular television journalist Cesar
                  Hildebrandt and Lima Mayor Alberto Andrade, Fujimori's main political
                  rival.

                  "No one but the intelligence service could have the precise biographical and
                  personal details that appear" on the Web page, said political analyst
                  Fernando Rospigliosi, who appears on the "black list."

                  He charges that the page is an attempt to discredit and intimidate opponents
                  of the government and intelligence service.

                  Angel Paez, head of the investigative unit of the daily La Republica and
                  another journalist on the "black list," said the site "gathers all the articles
                  written against me in the pro-government newspapers" and was part of a
                  campaign "apparently by the intelligence services, against journalists who
                  criticize Fujimori and against opposition politicians."

                  The page accuses Mohme, whose newspaper has broken stories on death
                  squad activity and torture within the intelligence service, of treason,
                  slandering the military and having ties to leftist guerrillas.

                  "Before long he will face popular justice at the hands of Peruvians," the page
                  said about Mohme.

                  The Web page was registered on the Internet on October 29 in Miami by a
                  woman with a Peruvian accent calling herself Blanca Rivera, Peru's largest
                  newspaper El Comercio reported.

                  The newspaper said its investigation showed that the telephone and address
                  she gave on the registration form appear to be false.

                  Although it does not identify its author, the page says its creators are "a
                  group of professionals, university students and people like you" who are
                  alarmed by the existence of "bad intentions, disinformation, distortion and the
                  manipulation of the truth."

                  The address of the Web page is: www.aprodev.org.

                     Copyright 1998   The Associated Press.