SALVADORAN COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000900550001-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 9, 2001
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: April 23, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SECRET
SECURITY INFORMATION
SUBJECT Salvadoran Communist Activities
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
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23 April 1953
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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10 The following Communists are among those employed by the Salvadoran Government:
ae Cesar A. ZAMORA, director of the weekly newspaperp T ',
published by the Ministry of Tabor, brd~ther of Oscar dim
Jesus ZAMORA
Ricardo M,ZO, a judge in San Vicente City
c. Mario LOBES MaOa.la a secretary in Criminal Court No. 3,
in San Salvador
d Oscar de Jesus ZANORA, employed in a Court of Justice in
San Salvador
e. Rodolfo JIMENEZ Barrios, a judge in the city of Chinameca.
2a, Rodolfo JIMENEZ Barrios and Rafael CISNEROS, the latter having been a member of
ctive in the Communist
its in
a
a legislative reform commissionAn 1932, were qu
Party until the return of Julio ?aueto FERNANDEZ'from Chile, when they resumed
participating in Communist Party activities. 25X1X
A new. and important Communist, hitherto unknown, may be-emer in in San
Salvador. Raul VIDES, according to information supplied by
has been a Communist since 1932. Just prior"to the anti-Communist upris ng o
1932-339 he was a Communist Party candidate for the National Assembly. VIDES is
described as deeply versed in Marxist theory9 and as having acted as a deep-
cover agent for the Communists.
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4.
During the latter part of January 1953 Raul VIDES was in touch with Communist
Party leaders in Guatemala and received the following instructions:
a. The recommendation that the Communist Party of El Salvador should
change its tactics, its strategy, and its outward appearance is
to be given diligent study by the proper Guatemalan Communist
authorities, and their conclusions will be communicated personally
by an emissary who will'visit El Salvador.
b. The Com=ist Party of El Salvador should not, for the present,
organize a new "popular" political party.
c. The practical work of the Party should be the penetration of all
groups in opposition to the incumbent government. Once these
groups are infiltrated, a persistent opposition to the foreign
policies of Foreign Minister Roberto CANESSA, especially in
regard to the Organizaeion de los Estados Centro Americanos
(ODECA), should be maintained.
d. All unions should be penetrated, but Party members should not
get elected to official positions. Party work should be strictly
clandestine in the unions, and Party workers should maintain a
conciliatory attitude.
e. The Party should attempt the establishment of a weekly newspaper,
with a "democratic popular" slant. This weekly should concentrate
on defending the Guatemalan Revolution. It should also appeal to
all independent liberals. Material for the weekly would be furnished
by the Guatemalan Embassy in San Salvador.
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