PARTIDO DE LA IZQUIERDA REVOLUCIONARIA

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000700770005-9
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 4, 2000
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: July 30, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP
INTELLIGENCE REPORT
COUNTRY Bolivia
SUBJECT Partddo de la Tzquiorda R
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10 The Fartido de la IzquierdaRevolucionaria goes back in origin to about 1923.
At that time its leaders, Jose Antonio Arm, Ricardo Away and others, includ-
ing the? Communist Aguirre Ache (now dead), were a part of the directing eeoup
of the Confederacion Revolucionaria Obreaea Popular (CROP), which included the
Communists of Chile, Peru, and Bolivia. The center of this latter organization
was in Santiago,. Chile, and its program and principles were distinctly ef a
Comm:List character.
After oeveralyears for reasons unknown,' the Cemmunists of Bolivia c=i .1:4 be
controlled from Menievideo?, and from that city came the order to form a Jew
party which would not be identified with Communize. As a result the Frn.Ate
izquierdista Boliviano (F/B). was created, with Arze and Aneya still at 4e hamo
Later, because of divergencies eppeariag in the FIB, at the time that Penararda
vas in control of the Government of Bolivia, there was held in Oruro a leftist
convention (attacked by the Falangists) .from Which was treated the pra. The
same leading elements controlled the new orgenleatione Its program was Ltkewiso
of a Communist character, and even included anti-nationalism; but later. without
benefit of a conference or congress to legally modify the program, a seaend edi-
tion of its program was issued which had lost the Communist tinge. This mats-
morphosis coincided with news from foreign countries that the Comintern. had
ordered the 'Communist parties to assume the character of nationalist or 30Q4 e1
pertise.
4? The present program of the FIR is as fellows. It includes nationalistic prinoi
plea and its political propaganda is based on the concept of ?Petrie. Some
members of the FIR who are definitely Communists, when asked about this aepeet
have said without the slightest hesitation that it is meant !to deceive the
people?. As a reault, they have obtained the following of many true paeeiots?
such as Gutierrekireatturguiat who entered the polity innocently, belieFig it
to be Bolivian. To expose VAR fraufi it is =faciee>pul
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demonstrations held by the PIR carry at their head the Red Flag of Russia and
the portrait of Stalin. Another interesting detail is that the present Mas-
ter of Labor, who has actively worked ae a Communist, has baptized his children
With the names "Rusor and "Vledimiron.
5. In all of this there is one truth which must be emphasized: if it should be possi-
ble to prove in any manner that the principlt 14aders of the PIR obey the dic-
tates of Macaw, 80% of the adherents of the ?wiy would withdraw, on them
Gutierrez? who has so stated to his friends.
6. For the present, it seems inconvenient to attack the PIR. It ferns a solid guar-
antee for the stability of the present Government, since, as an organized and
armed party in La Paz it can defend the constitutional order in the streets.
To open an energetic Paz,
against it, making use of Trolence, would be to
give it greater prestige, and to favor its spread. It is necessary to combat
it tactfully, taking advantage of its errors and putting it to ridicule, This
is more a queation of cleverness, particularly in propaganda.
This document contains information
affecting the national defense of the
Inited States within the meaning of
the Espionage Act, 50, U.S.C. 31 and
'32 as amended. Its transmission or
the revelation or its contents in any
manner to en unauthorized person is
prohibited by law,
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