COMMUNIST CHARACTER OF THE UNIVERSIDADE DO POVO (PEOPLE'S UNIVERSITY)

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000600200014-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 22, 1998
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: May 23, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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N RAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP
U TELLIG NCF REPORT
COUNTRY Brahz i.I
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Cc n mnist Character of the Universidaade do Povo
(People#s University)
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e?sa teac ing coursetr in I?:ar i rrn tmd Leninism. Among its organizers were
overal party members and nyrnpa.thizerse The principal speaker at the inaugura
cer onies of the university was Luiz Carlos Prestes, head of the Co unist
Party of Brazil;
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i The Urdive3"s;adade do Povo (People's University) was founded early in 1946 by'
the Cc ;unist dominated :'ov'imento Unificador dos Trabalhadores 0.72) to
collaborate with the 0cmmunist Party by spreading the "alpha'betizatio program
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actor located, because it was felt that 01080 1dentifiortio'n with the Communist
2 The Universidade do Povo originally shared quarters with a C sunist cell but
moved to Avenida Venezuela 27, Distrito Federal, Rio do Janeiro, Where It is
.aaat.on was aafa:eeti.ng registration of atudentso
4 In late 1940- the university sponsored a c onoert to which tickets were sold be
by the university and members of the Cca aunist Party` The purpose of .the
concert, not disclosed by.the university, was to raise money for the purchase
of printing,presses for Cc runlst publications,
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orn ear, are both members of the Gam unlet Party.
(14 Of Publicity, Dr- Caries Alberto Costa
1' Pinto, and the Organizational Secretary,
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Dr. Eduardo Prado Lopes, is a ieadrn,q member of a Ce aarmunist front organization .7 A
bY 10 police Ga tie a militant CaXnmunist and is secretary of the Ccmnunist
Central Come iseioin of the Alphabetization Commies :Drag the Financial ecret?:r
acquainted with Prestes; the Secretary General, zr. TYarcel C@r,~pos, is cAonsider
of the party (although he is no longer known publicly as such) and is personally
The university has publicly stated that it has no connection with the Communist
Party. However, the rector, DDr. Americo aniok, was far rraerl? an active ae'~afaer
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