FOREIGN DELEGATIONS AT THE CPSU 21ST CONGRESS, JANUARY 1959

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FOREIGN DELEGATIONS AT THE CPSU
21st CONGRESS, JANUARY 1959
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FOREIGN DELEGATIONS AT THE GPSU
2.1 st CONGRESS, JANUARY 1959
KHRUSHCHEV: "..,delegations from. Communist and
Workers' parties from 70 countries
have come to our Congress."
1. The following information is available as of 5 February
1959. Of the 64 countries listed below, it remains doubtful whether
Pakistan and Nicaragua sent delegates. If these two delegations
were present, there would still be six delegations not yet firmly
identified in KHRUSHCHEV's total count of 10, Certain possibili-
ties are suggested at the end of the listing.
2. Bloc CP's. All the Bloc CP's sent delegations. The
Yugoslavs have admitted that they did not receive an invitation.
The following delegations were announced officially:
Enver HOXHA First Secretary
Mehmet SHEHU W Politburo member and Chair-
man of the Council of Ministers
Hysni KAPO - Politburo member and Secretary
Bulgaria
Todor ZHIVKOV - First Secretary
Anton YUGOV -- Politburo' member
Boyan BULGARANOV - Politburo member
Georgi TSANKOV - Politburo member
Boris NIKOLOV - CC member
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China
CHOU En-lai - Party Vice Chairman
KANG Sheng alternate Politburo member
LI Hsueh-feng - Secretariat member
LIU Ning-i - CC member
LIU Hsiao CC member and Ambassador to USSR
Czechoslovakia
Antonin NOVOTNY - President and First' Secretary
Karol BACILEK - First Secretary, Slovak CP
Jaromir DOLANSKI - First Deputy Premier
Jiri HENDRYCH - Secretary
East Germany
Walter ULBRICHT - First Secretary
Otto GROTEWOHL Premier and Politburo member
i-lcjrrich RAU - Politburo and Secretariat member
Alfred NEUMANN - Politburo and Secretariat member
Hungary
Janos KADAR - First Secretary
Antal APRO - Politburo member and First Deputy
Chairman, Council of Ministers
Jeno FOCK - Politburo and Secretariat member
Mongolia
Umjagin TSEDENBAL - First Secretary
N. ZHAGVARAL - alternate Politburo member
DAMDIN - CC member
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KIM II- song - Party Chairman
PAX Chong-ae - Party Vice Chairman
YI Chong-ok - candidate Presidium member
YI Song-un - CC member
North Vietnam
HO Chi Minh. - Presidents
HOANG Van Hoan - Politburo member
NGUYEN Van Kinh - alternate CC member and
Ambassador to USSR
Poland
Wladyslaw GOMULKA - First Secretary
Stefan. JEDRYCHOWSKI - Politburo member
Adam RAPACKI - Politburo member and Foreign
Minister
Roman ZAMBROWSKI - Politburo member
Zenon KLISZKO - Secretary
Tadeusz CEDE. - CC member and Ambassador to
USSR
Gheorghe GHEORGHIU-DEJJ - First Secretary
Chivu STOICA - Politburo member and Prime
Mini sterl
Gheorghe APOSTOL - Politburo member
Nicolae CEAUSESCU - member Politburo and
Secretariat
Leonte. RAUTU - candidate Politburo member
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3. Far East CP's. The following delegations were announced-
Australia
Edward HILL - member Political Committee and
Secretary
D. N. AIDIT - Secretary General
Karel SUPIT Secretary of North Sulawesi CP
B.O. HATAPEA - chief editor of Bintang Merah
Suharti SUWARTO - head of Party's women's
department
NURSUHUT - Secretary of West Sumatra CP
Japan
MIYAMOTO Kenji - Secretary General
KASUGA Shoichi -- Presidium member
NISHIZAWA Tomio - deputy chief of the investigation
department, CC
Wilfred McARA member National Committee
Hugh McLEOD - member National Committee and
Aukland district secretary
4. European CP's. The following delegates were announced
or were reported to be attending the Congress. In some cases Moscow
announced only the leader of a delegation. Other delegates are listed
on the basis of reports from various sources.
Johann KOPLENIG - Chairman
Friedl FUERNBERG - Secretary
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Theodor MALLER - CC member
Josef WODRAZKA. CC member
Belgium
Ernest BURNELLE - Secretary General
Jean BLUME - member Politburo and Secretariat
Louis VAN GEYT - CC member
Denmark
Knud JESPERSEN Chairman
Ingmar WAGNER - Politburo member
Willi FUGLSANG Politburo member
Finland
Valle PESSI - Secretary General
France
Jacques DU.CLOS - Politburo member and Secretary
Raymond GUYOT - Politburo member
Gustave ANSART -- Politburo member
Roland LEROY CC member
Georges MARCHAIS - CC member
Greece
Apostolos GROZOS - Chairman
Iceland
Kristinn ANDRESSON - member of Executive!
Committee
Italy
Palmiro TOGLIATTI - Secretary General
Giancarlo PAJETTA - Secretary
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Aldo LAMPREDI - member Central Control
Commission Presidium
Emanuele MACALUSO - CC member
Giuseppe CARRO - CC member
(Earlier reports that Pietro SECCHIA would attend
have not been confirmed. )
Netherlands
WOLF CC member
DE VOS CC member
(The above delegates were announced by Moscow.
It has not yet been determined whether this is
Joop or Jaap WOLF. The other delegate is
probably Mrs. H. DE VOS, president of the
Dutch Communist front organization for women.)
North Ireland
Sean MURRAY - secretary of Executive Committee
Norway
Emil LOEVLIEN - Chairman
Henry HOFF - Secretary
Tore SKJAERSETH - CC member
San Marino
Delegate announced as present. No identification made.
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Dolores IBARRURI - Secretary General
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Sweden
Hilding HAGBERG - Chairman
Knut TELL - Secretary
Rodny OHMAN - editor
Edgar WOOG - Secretary General
Jean VINCENT - member Directing Committee and
Secretariat
United Kingdom
Harry POLLITT - Chairman
Gordon McLENNON - Secretary of Scottish Committee
Norman TEMPLE - member Executive Committee
West Germany
Max REIMANN - First Secretary
5. Near Eastern, Middle Eastern and African CP's. The
following delegates have been indicated, either as confirmed delegates
or as possibilities:
Al eria
Larbi BOUHALI - First Secretary
(Announced by Moscow.)
Ceylon _
Pieter KEUNEMAN - Secretary General
Stanley TILLEKRATNE - CC member
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(Both were announced as their party's delegates.
KEUNEMAN has been identified in Moscow.)
Ajoy GHOSH - Secretary General
E. M. S. NAMBOODIRIPAD - chief minister of Kerala State
R. VENKATARAMAN - Secretary Tamil CP
Rashid AHMED - office secretary of the Secretariat
(All were reported to have departed for the Congress.
GHOSH has been identified in Moscow. B. T. RANADIVE
and Jolly KAUL were denied passports and were unable to
be delegates. )
Iran
Reza RADMANESH - First Secretary
(Announced by Moscow.)
Iraq
Salam ADIL - Identified as CC member by Moscow.
(The above individual was announced by Moscow. It is
possible that other Iraqi Communists at the Congress
included Tawfiq WARDI, Edward DAVID, Zaki MARYUSH,
Aziz al-Hajj Ali HAYDAR, and Zaki KHAYRI. )
Israel
Samuel MIKUNIS - Secretary General
Emil HABIBI - one of the Communist Knesset members
(Both were reported to have left for the Congress.
Moscow has announced MIKUNIS.)
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Lebanon
Nicholas SHAWI - Secretary
(Announced by Moscow.)
Morocco
All YATA - First Secretary
Abdal-Salam BOURQIA - member Politburo and
Secretary
(Both announced by Moscow.)
Pakistan
Hassan NASIR
(Is a possible delegate. He is a refugee living in
Kabul, Afghanistan. It was reported that he
intended to be in the USSR in January. )
Syria
Khalid BAKDASH - Secretary General
.(Announced by Moscow.)
Tunisia
Muhammad ENNAFAA - Secretary
(Announced by Moscow.)
6. Western Hemisphere CP's. The following delegates were
announced or reported:
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Argentina
Geronimo Arnedo ALVAREZ Secretary General
Victorio CODOVILLA - President
Rudolfo GHIOLDI - Vice President
Hector AGOSTI - Secretary
Alcira de La PENA - PCA member of Buenos Aires
Municipal Council
Rubens ISCARO - Argentine representative of WFTU
(Moscow confirmed the presence of ALVAREZ. )
Bolivia
Luis Angel TELLERIA - Secretary
Humberto RAMIREZ - member of Political Commission
(Announced by Moscow.)
Armando MAZZO - CC member
Carlos MARIGHELLA - member Secretariat
Possibly one other
(Moscow confirmed that a delegation was present, but
made no identifications. The above delegation was
reported to have gone. )
Canada
Timothy BUCK - Secretary General
(Announced by Moscow.)
Chile
Luis CORVALAN Leppe - Secretary General
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Bernardo ARAYA Zuleta - member Political
Commission
(Moscow announced CORVALAN.)
Colombia
Gilberto VIEIR,A 'White - Secretary
(Announced by Moscow.)
Costa Rica
Eduardo MORA Valverde
Mario ZUNIGA Aguilar
member National
Political Commission
- Puntarenas representative
to the Political Commission
(Moscow confirmed that a delegation was present, but
made no identifications. The above delegates were
reported to have been selected, by the Party. )
Cuba
Severo AGUIRRE - member National Executive
Committee
(Announced by Moscow.)
Dominican Republic
Juan DOUCOUDRAY Mansfield - CC member
(Moscow confirmed that a delegation was present,
but made no identifications. The above individual
was reported to be a probable ,delegate. )
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Ecuador
Pedro Antonio SAAD - Secretary General
Elias MUNOZ - member Executive Committee
(Moscow confirmed the presence of SAAD.)
El Salvador
Jorge ARIAS Gomez - CC member
Daniel CASTANEDA - CC member
(Moscow confirmed that a delegation was present,
but made no identifications. The above delegates
were reported to have gone. )
Guatemala
Pablo Francisco HERNANDEZ Alvarez - CC member
Fernando HERNANDEZ Hernandez - Secretary
General of the University
Students Section of the Party
(Moscow confirmed that a delegation was present, but
made no identifications. The above delegation was
reported to have gone. )
Honduras
Luis Manuel ZUNIGA Saravia - possibly Secretary of
Organization
Francisco RIOS Mena exact party position unknown
(Moscow confirmed that a delegation was present, but
made no identifications. The above delegates were
reported to have gone. )
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Dionisio ENCINA Rodriguez - Secretary General
Jose Encarnacion VALDEZ Ochoa - member Political
Commission and
Secretary
Arnoldo MARTINEZ Verdugo CC member
(All announced by Moscow.)
Nicaragua
(The Nicaraguan CP was reportedly scheduled to
send one delegate. No identification has been made,
however, and Moscow has made no announcement
concerning a delegate. )
Panama
Hugo Alejandro VICTOR Escalal President
Jose Rafael HILL Sanchez - Secretary of Organization
(Moscow confirmed that a delegation was present,, but
made no identifications. The above delegates were
reported to have gone. )
Paraguay
(Moscow confirmed that a delegation was present, but
made no identifications. )
Jorge Del PRADO Chavez - CC member and former
Secretary Genera].
(Moscow confirmed that a delegation from Peru was
present, but made no identifications. PRADO, who
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reportedly departed for Europe to attend a student
congress in Vienna, is a possible delegate.)
James JACKSON - National Executive Committee
Moses SHIELD (believed to be Morris CHILDS) -
National Executive Committee
(Announced by Moscow.)
Uruguay
Rodney ARISMENDI - First Secretary
(Announced by Moscow.)
Venezuela
Pompeyo MARQUEZ - National Secretary
Pedro ORTEGA Diaz Federal district secretary
Alonso OJEDA Olaechea - Agrarian secretary
Guillermo GUERDINE
(Moscow confirmed the presence of MARQUEZ.
MARQUEZ and the others were listed in a
Venezuelan newspaper as delegates. It is not
confirmed that the others actually went. )
7. Messages were read to the Congress from several CP's
known to have representatives there. In addition, messages were
read from the CP's of Cyprus, Portugal, Sudan, Turkey, Thailand,
Jordan, Luxembourg, Burma, and Malaya. There were no clear
indications that delegates from these CP's were actually present, but
at least some of them may have sent representatives. Delegates may
also have been present from CP's not reported on at all, such as
Egypt and the Philippines.
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ADDENDA TO FOREIGN DELEGATIONS AT THE.CP'SU
21st CONGRESS, JANUARY 1.959
The following is. information available as of
18 February 1959. These delegates have been. indicated
either as confirmed or as possibilities. 'this now leaves
a total of three delegations not identified.
Iceland
Triggvi EMIISSON - CC member
Jordan
Fuad NASSAR - Secretary General
Ibrahim Yusuf TUWAL party position unknown
Husni Salih :KHUFASH - party position unknown
Ahmad LUSW'I - party position unknown
Nashat SHAR - party position unknown
Luxembourg
Jean KIEL - member of Executive Committee
of Central Committee
Net he rlands
Jaap WOLF - CC member
Heiltje de. Vos-Krul - CC. member
Nicaragua
Efrain RODRIGUEZ Vanegas - Political. Corn-
mittee member
now in USSR
Sudan
Ahmad SULAY MAN - CC member
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FOREIGN DELEGATIONS AT THE CPSU
21st CONGRESS, JANUARY 1959
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FOREIGN DELEGATIONS AT THE CPSU
2.1st CONGRESS, JANUARY 1959
KHRUSHCHEV: "...delegations from. Communist and
Workers 9 parties from 70 countries
have come to our Congress."
1. The following information is available as of 5 February
1959, Of the 64 countries listed. below, it remains doubtful whether
Pakistan.and Nicaragua sent delegates. If these two delegations
were present, there would still be six delegations not yet firmly
identified in KHRUSHCHEV's total count of 70. Certain possibili-
ties are suggested at the end of the listing.
2. Bloc C P's. All the Bloc CP`9s sent delegations. The
Yugoslavs have admitted that they did not receive an invitation?
The following delegations were announced officially:
Albania
E.nver HOXHA. - First Secretary
Mehmet SHEHU Politburo member and-Chair-
man of the Council of Ministers
Hysni KAPO - Politburo member and Secretary
Bulgaria
Todor ZHIVKOV - First Secretary
Anton YUGOV - Politburo member
Boyan. BULGARANOV - Politburo member
Georgi TSANKOV Politburo member
Boris. NIKOLOV - CC member
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China
CHOU En-lai - Party Vice Chairman
KANG Sheng alternate Politburo member
LI Hsueh-feng .. Secretariat member
LIU Ning-i - CC member
LIU Hsiao CC member and Ambassador to USSR
Antonin NOVOTNY - President and First Secretary
Karol BACILEK - First Secretary, Slovak CP
Jaromir DOLANSKI - First Deputy Premier
Jiri HENDRYCH - Secretary
East Germany
Walter ULBRICHT First Secretary
Otto GROTEWOHL Premier and Politburo member
Heinrich RAU - Politburo and Secretariat member
Alfred NEUMANN - Politburo and Secretariat member
Hungary
Janos KADAR -- First Secretary
Antal APRO - Politburo member and First Deputy
Chairman, Council of Ministers
Jeno FOCK - Politburo and Secretariat member
Mongolia
Umjagin. TSEDENBAL - First Secretary
N. ZHAGVARAL - alternate Politburo member
DAMDIN - CC member
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KIM 11- song - Party Chairman
PAK Ghong-ae - Party Vice Chairman
YI Chong-ok. candidate Presidium member
YI Song-un - CC member
North Vietnam
HO Chi Minh. - President
HOANG Van Hoan - Politburo member
NGUYEN Van Kinh - alternate CC member and
Ambassador to USSR
Poland
Wladyslaw GOMULKA First Secretary
Stefan JEDRYCHOWSKI - Politburo member
Adam RAPACKI - Politburo member and: Foreign
Minister
Roman ZAMMI3ROWSKI - Politburo member
Zenon KLISZKO - Secretary
Tadeusz.GEDE - CC member and Ambassador to
USSR
Gheorghe GHEORGHIU-DEJ - First Secretary
Chivu STOICA - Politburo' member and Prime
Mini ste r
Gheorghe APOSTOL - Politburo member
Nicolae CEAUSESCU - member Politburo and
Secretariat
Leonte RAUTU - candidate Politburo member
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3. Far East CP's. The following delegations were announced;
Australia
Edward HILL - member Political Committee and
Secretary
D.N. AIDIT - Secretary General
Karel SUPIT Secretary of North Sulawesi CP
B.O. HATAPEA - chief editor of Bintang Merah
Suharti SUWARTO - head of Party's women's
department
NURSUHUT - Secretary of West Sumatra CP
Japan
MIYAMOTO Kenji - Secretary General
KASUGA Shoichi - Presidium member
NISHIZAWA Tornio - deputy chief of the investigation
department, CC
New Zealand
Wilfred McARA - member National Committee
Hugh McLEOD - member National Committee and
Aukland district secretary
4. European CPts. The following delegates were announced
or were reported to be attending the Congress. In some cases Moscow
announced only the leader of a delegation. Other delegates are listed
on the basis of reports from various sources.
Johann KOPLENIG - Chairman
Friedl FUERNBERG - Secretary
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Theodor MALLER - CC member
Josef WODRAZKA CC member
Belgium
Ernest BURNELLE - Secretary General
Jean BLUME - member Politburo and Secretariat
Louis VAN GEYT - CC member
Denmark
Knud JESPERSEN Chairman
Ingmar WAGNER - Politburo member
Willi FUGLSANG Politburo member
Finland
Ville PESSI Secretary General
France
Jacques DUCLOS - Politburo member and Secretary
Raymond GUYOT - Politburo member
Gustave ANSART - Politburo member
Roland LEROY -, CC member
Georges MARCHAIS - GO member
Greece
Apostolos GROZOS - Chairman
Ic eland
Kristinn ANDRESSON - member of Executive:
Committee
Italy
Palmiro TOGLIATTI - Secretary General
Giancarlo PAJETTA - Secretary
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Aldo LAMPREDI - member Central Control
Commission Presidium
Emanuele MACALUSO - CC member
Giuseppe CARRO - CC member
(Earlier reports that Pietro SECCHIA would attend
have not been confirmed. )
Netherlands
WOLF CC member
DE VOS CC member
(The above delegates were announced by Moscow.
It has not yet been determined whether this is
Joop or Jaap WOLF. The other delegate is
probably Mrs. H.. DE VOS, president of the
Dutch Communist front organization for women. )
North Ireland
Sean MURRAY - secretary of Executive Committee
Norway
Emil LOEVLIEN - Chairman
Henry HOFF - Secretary
Tore SKJAERSETH - CC member
San Marino
Delegate announced as present. No identification made.
S pain
Dolores IBARRURI - Secretary General
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Sweden
Hilding HAGBERG - Chairman
Knut TELL - Secretary
Rodny OHMAN - editor
Edgar WOOG - Secretary General
Jean VINCENT - member Directing Committee and
Secretariat
United Kingdom
Harry POLLITT - Chairman
Gordon McLENNON - Secretary of Scottish Committee
Norman TEMPLE - member Executive Committee
West Germany
Max REIMANN - First Secretary
5. Near Eastern, Middle Eastern and African CPts. The
following delegates have been indicated, either as confirmed delegates
or as possibilities:
Algeria
Larbi BOUHALI - First Secretary
(Announced by Moscow.)
Ceylon -
Pieter KEUNEMAN - Secretary General
Stanley TILLEKRATNE CC member
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(Both were announced as their party's delegates.
KEUNEMAN has been identified in Moscow.)
Ajoy GHOSH - Secretary General
E. M. S. NAMBOODIRIPAD - chief minister of Kerala State
R. VENKATARAMAN - Secretary Tamil CP
Rashid AHMED - office secretary of the Secretariat
(All were reported to have departed for the Congress.
GHOSH has been identified in Moscow. B. T. RANADIVE
and Jolly KAUL were denied passports and were unable to
be delegates. )
Iran
Reza RADMANESH - First Secretary
(Announced by Moscow.)
Iraq
Salam ADIL - Identified as CC member by Moscow.
(The above individual was announced by Moscow. It is
possible that other Iraqi Communists at the Congress
included Tawfiq WARDI, Edward DAVID, Zaki MARYUSH,
Aziz al-Hajj Ali HAYDAR, and Zaki KHAYRI.)
Israel
Samuel MIKUNIS - Secretary General
Emil HABIBI - one of the Communist Knesset members
(Both were reported to have left for the Congress.
Moscow has announced MIKUNIS.)
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Lebanon
Nicholas SHAWL - Secretary
(Announced by Moscow.)
Morocco
Ali YATA - First Secretary
Abdal-Salam BOURQIA - rrember Politburo and
Secretary
(Both announced by Moscow. )
Pakistan
Hassan NASIR
(Is a possible delegate. He is a refugee living in
Kabul, Afghanistan. It was reported that he
intended to be in the USSR in January. )
Syria
Khalid BAKDASH - Secretary General
.(Announced by Moscow.)
Tunisia
Muhammad ENNAFAA - Secretary
(Announced by Moscow.)
6. Western Hemisphere CP's. The following delegates were
announced or reported;
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Ar gentina
Geronimo Arnedo ALVAREZ - Secretary General
Victorio CODOVILLA - President
Rudolfo GHIOLDI - Vice President
Hector AGOSTI - Secretary
Alcira de La PENA - PCA member of Buenos Aires
Municipal Council
Rubens ISCARO - Argentine representative of WFTU
(Moscow confirmed the presence of ALVAREZ.)
Bolivia
Luis Angel TELLERIA - Secretary
Humberto RAMIREZ - member of Political Commission
(Announced by Moscow.)
Armando MAZZO - CC member
Carlos MARIGHELLA - member Secretariat
Possibly one other
(Moscow confirmed that a delegation was present, but
made no identifications. The above delegation was
reported to have gone. )
Canada
Timothy BUCK - Secretary General
(Announced by Moscow.)
Chile
Luis CORVALAN Leppe - Secretary General
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Bernardo ARAYA Zuleta - member Political
Commission
(Moscow announced CORVALAN. )
Colombia
Gilberto VIEIRA White - Secretary
(Announced by Moscow.)
Costa Rica
Eduardo MORA Valverde - member National
Political Commission
Mario ZUNIGA Aguilar - Puntarenas representative
to the Political Commission
(Moscow confirmed that a. delegation was present, but
made no identifications. The above delegates were
reported to have been selected by the Party. )
Cuba
Seuero ; AGUIRRE - member National Executive
Committee
(Announced by Moscow.)
Dominican Republic
Juan DOUCOUDRAY Mansfield CC member
(Moscow confirmed that .a delegation was present,
but made. no identifications.. , The above individual
was reported to be a probable delegate.
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Ecuador
Pedro Antonio SAAD - Secretary General
Elias MUNOZ - member Executive Committee
(Moscow confirmed the presence of SAAD, )
El Salvador
Jorge ARIAS Gomez - CC member
Daniel CASTANEDA - CC member
(Moscow confirmed that a delegation was present,
but made no identifications. The above delegates
were reported to have gone. )
Guatemala
Pablo Francisco HERNANDEZ Alvarez - CC member
Fernando HERNANDEZ Hernandez - Secretary
General of the University
Students Section of the Party
(Moscow confirmed that a delegation was present, but
made no identifications. The above delegation was
reported to have gone. )
Honduras
Luis Manuel ZUNIGA Saravia - possibly Secretary of
Organization
Francisco RIOS Mena exact party position unknown
(Moscow confirmed that a delegation was present, but
made no identifications. The above delegates were
reported to have gone. )
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Dionisio ENCINA Rodriguez - Secretary General.
Jose Encarnacion VALDEZ Ochoa - member Political
Commission and
Secretary
Arnoldo MARTINEZ Verdugo - CC member
(All announced by Moscow.)
Nicaragua
(The Nicaraguan CP was reportedly scheduled to
send one delegate. No identification has been made,
however, and Moscow has made no announcement
concerning a delegate. )
Hugo Alejandro VICTOR Escala: - President
Jose Rafael HILL Sanchez - Secretary of Organization
(Moscow confirmed that a delegation was present, but
made no identifications. The above delegates were
reported to have gone. )
Paraguay
(Moscow confirmed that a delegation, was present, but
made no identifications.)
Jorge Del PRADO Chavez - CC member and former
Secretary General
(Moscow confirmed that a delegation from Peru was
present, but made no identifications. PRADO, who
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reportedly departed for Europe to attend a student
congress in Vienna, is a possible delegate.)
James JACKSON m National Executive Committee
Moses SHIELD (believed to be Morris CHILDS) -
National Executive Committee
(Announced by Moscow.)
Uruguay
Rodney ARISMENDI - First Secretary
(Announced by Moscow.)
Venezuela
Pompeyo MARQUEZ - National Secretary
Pedro ORTEGA Diaz Federal district secretary
Alonso OJEDA Olaechea - Agrarian secretary
Guillermo GUERDINE
(Moscow confirmed the presence of MARQUEZ.
MARQUEZ and the others were listed in a
Venezuelan newspaper as delegates. It is not
confirmed that the others actually went. )
7. Messages were read to the Congress from several CP's
known to have representatives there. In addition, messages were
read from the CP's of Cyprus, Portugal, Sudan, Turkey, Thailand,
Jordan, Luxembourg, Burma, and Malaya. There were no clear
indications that delegates from these CP's were actually present, but
at least some of them may have sent representatives. Delegates may
also have been present from CP's not reported on at all, such as
Egypt and the Philippines.
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ADDENDA TO FOREIGN DELEGATIONS AT THE CPSU
21st CONGRESS, JANUARY 1959
.
The following is information available as of
18 February 1959. These delegates have been indicated
either as confirmed or as possibilities. This now leaves
a total of three delegations not identified.
Iceland
Triggvi EMIISSON - CC member
Jordan
Fuad NASSAR - Secretary General
Ibrahim Yu su.f TUWAL party position unknown.
Husni Saiih KHUFASH party position unknown
Ahmad LUSWI party position unknown
Nashat SHAR party position unknown
Luxembourg
Jean KIEL member of Execu..tive Committee
of Central Committee
Net he rlands
Jaap WOLF m CC. member
Heiltje de Vos-Krul - CC member
Nicaragua
Efrain RODRIGUEZ Vanegas - Political Com-
mittee member
now in USSR
Sudan
Ahmad SULAY MAN m CC member
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