VENEZUELA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79R00890A001000030030-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 31, 2002
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: July 2, 1958
• Content Type: BRIEF

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levels with webers or sympathizers,
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active sympathizer.
3. That two other ministers are coopers
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I. Constes believed to have achieved eese penetration of govt at
A. Cabinet my include 6 Cr ies or sympathizers,
Commie d a?L any be exaggerated, but it is indicative
of considerable Comsie gains.
C. Minister of Finance and Under retary of interior hav',
record of Coasts activity.
Venezuelan Communist Party (PCV)
leaders claim that:
1. Ministers of Interior and Education. are active sesbexs.
2. That Eioister of .Foreign Relations is former amber and
unlikely seriously to restrict Cotes.
A. President Larraazobal stated that Cosies numbered only
(our estimate is 25,000), were patriotic V zuelans ui out
international ties.
I. PCV had endorsed i arrazabal?s presidential csndidac r.
III. Cries active in united political and labor organizations.
only one leader of major non-Commie party- I (socia t
Christian)--has publicly opposed Comic participation la
future gam.
U. Commies reportedly have substantial influence in universiti=a;.
Coaanies have considerable influence in press.
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A. -Cnist press, with exception of Catholic gaper, is
favorably oriented toward PCT.
PC, apparently has substantial financial resources for its
Own press*
is not known to have pen*ttro ted ia
whose top
egedly are staunchly anti. unist.
There is little effective civilian opposition to Ies.
A.. And the Military thus far has been reluctant to take
unilateral action against the Comales.
We conclude then, that govt is C