STATUS OF THE VANGUARDIA POPULAR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002100070011-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 9, 1998
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: November 24, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

CLASSIFICATION C'?Nr ITIAL
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COUNTRY Caste. pica DATE DISTR. 24 'November 1948
SUBJECT Status of the Vanguardia Forular
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1. The remnants of the Vanguardia lonular, although numerous when considered
in conjunction with their controlled labor organization, the Confederacion
de Trabajadores de Costa R ca (CTCR), have had small success in attaining
any large-scale underground organization. This, of course, has been largely
the result of the fact that the most talented of their leaders have been
imprisoned from more or ].isa the end of the revolution until 15 September
1948. Since that time, t,o, their organizational activities have been largely
confined to small nocturnal reunions of the leaders in private homes while
the rank and file have gc-ne undisciplined and uninstructed. This is rartially
substantiated by the larLo number of one-time Communists and Communist-con-
trolled workers who have been arrested for fightinf and assault during past
weeks. In the opinion of one observer the irlmediate future will see a
resurgence of Communist oganizational activity, tightly controlled, under
the direction of Arnoldo i'erreto Segura, who will serve as secretary General,
of the party in Costa ti ca