ANTI-COMMUNIST CAMPAIGN OF ARGENTINE GOVERNMENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001600660007-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 25, 2000
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: July 1, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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INPOR A EPORT
COUNTRY Argentina
SUBJECT Anti-Communist Campaign of ArVnitim Goverment
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1. The Argentine Government plans to continue deportations of troublesome for-
eign Communists and labor agitators. Although no recent deportations have
been publicized, a deportation order for "subversive activities within the
Argentine labor movement"' exists against seven individuals who have re-
sided a number of years in Argentina. These seven have been classed as
Russians, though they may actually be Ukrainians and/or Byelorussian,
2. In attempting to curb the activities of labor agitators and to intimidate
the more aggressive anti-government labor elements, the Federal Police
have in recent weeks "kidnapped" several suspected Communist trouble-
makers. Members of various labor unions have been arrested, heldincom-
municado for a few days, frequently tortured, and then released.
One such individual arrested on 22 May and subsequently released was Juan
B. Espel, a labor leader among the oil workers of the strategic Comodoro
Rivadavia area. Espelts arrest followed a series of incidents in Como-
doro Rivadavia in which sabotage was suspected. Oil machinery was found
damaged and tools were missing. Ten other individuals have recently been
arrested in this area as a result of the government's efforts to curb
labor unrest, which is believed to be Communist -inspired. Additional
Federal Police have now been assigned to the area.
!a? Governor Mercante has recently issued orders to the Buenos Aires Pravin.-
cial Police to accelerate their anti-Communist activities and to coordinate
their work with that of the Coordinacion Federal section of the Federal.
Police, Accordingly., the Provincial Police have begun cataloguing all sus-
pected Communists.
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