GUATEMALAN DELEGATION TO FOURTH WORLD FESTIVAL OF YOUTH

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002000420008-5
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 12, 2002
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: August 4, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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COUNTRY Guatemala/Rumania
REPORT NO.
DATE DISTR.
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SUBJECT Guatemalan Delegation to Fourth
World Festival of Youth
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4 August 1953
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1. Roberto BLASCO Alava, Spanish Communist residing in Guatemala, stated recently.
that at least thirty Guatemalan delegates would be.sent-tp the Fourth World
Festival of Youth and Students for Peace and Friendship to be held by the World
Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY) in Bucharest, Romania, from 2-16 August
1953. According to BLASCO Alava, the delegation will include political exiles
from several countries; he mentioned the Dominican Republic,' Nicaragua, and
El Salvador and said that it might even contain deputies of the Guatemalan Congress.
2. BLASCO Alava appeared to be, disappointed by the fact that not a single exiled
Spaniard would be in attendance at the Festival, since the matter could not be
brought up in the Spanish Republican Center because its make-up is more anti-
Communist than anything else. When asked why the Spanish Communists did not
choose a representative from their group, or a sympathizer, to attend, BLASCO
Alava stated that they did not have sufficient funds to pay the passage, and
that the only possible method of obtaining the necessary money would be through
the collaboration of the Spanish Republican Center with other democratic groups
in Guatemala and the world in handling peace problems and othets of a national
and international nature.
3. In reply to questioning, BLASCO Alava stated that a one-way ticket to the Festival
would cost $400 for each delegate, and that the funds for the thirty delegates
would be raised through a,series of "fiestas," with the Government of Guatemala
providing the amount remaining, He added that, once in Bucharest, expenses would
be paid, and that some poor delegations would have their return passage paid, and
that some would receive transportation costs both ways,
4. While BLASCO Alava did not yet know the names of the delegates, he stated that
he believed that the Saker-Ti, the Casa de la Oultura,., and democratic student
organizations would be represented.
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