CO-ORDINATED PLANS OF COMMUNIST FRONTS IN CHILE FOR ECONOMIC WARFARE AGAINST THE UNITED STATES

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 5, 2003
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: September 22, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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C..ENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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
INFORMATION REPORT amended. _ transmission unauthorized or revelation of its C4IIbin~
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SUBJECT Co-ordinated Plans of Communist
Fronts in Chile for Economic War-
fare against the United States
DATE OF INFO.
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REPORT NO.
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22 September 1953.
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Especial attacks were planned against the United States-and the methods of
Yankee Imperialism, which prevents Chile from selling copper and other minerals
at a more favorable price to the Soviet and satellite nations. Carlos NASCIMENTO
Marquez outlined this part of the program discussing the results of a secret
conference which he attended in Vienna, when he was a delegate to the Communist
Peace-Congress there in December 1952. NASCINENTO stated that this conference was
conducted by a group of Soviet experts who instructed those in attendance on
methods of attacking the commercial policies of the United States. Propaganda
techniques directed at the prevention of the sale of strategic minerals to the
United States were explained. Those in attendance were informed that committees
were being set up in the. Soviet Union and satellite countries to work with similar
committees in the countries of the Western world to implement this economic war-
fare campaign against the United States. With regard to Latin America, instructions
were given to organize committees in each country to co-ordinate this policy and to
work with the committees in the Soviet and. satellite nations, as well as with the
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The Communist Party of Chile (PCCh) has recently given instructions to certain
Communist-front organizations to co-ordinate their activities more closely in
order to achieve the ends desired by the Party. The following organizations
have received these instructionss Instituto Chileno Chino de Cultura (ICCC),
Centro Chileno.Rumano de Culture (CCRC), Comite Chileno de Amigos de Checoe-
slova,uia (CCAC), Centro Cultural Chileno-Hungaro (CCCH) and the Centro de
A.mi.gos de Polonia (CAP). These organizations have been instructed to delegate
representatives to meet each Thursday at either the headquarters of the CCAC on
Calls Arturo Prat 378 or at the head q r at Avenida Bernardo
O1Higgitis 105, Santiago At a meeting] representatives from 25X1
these front groups were told to begin a joint propaganda campaign urgi g,Chile
to establish commercial'relations with the Soviet Union' Communist China and the
other satellite nations. All the various Comimthist arguments for having Chile do
business with these countries'were discusseds and means of making these arguments
effective were also discussed.
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committees in the other Latin American countries. This conference agreed
that an over-all directing committee for Latin America should be set up in
Mexico City. This location was chosen because of the presence of a well-
established Soviet Diplomatic Mission in Mexico,, staffed with experts trained
in commercial espionage whose guidance w u3d be invaluable to the work of
these committees.
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