DISAGREEMENT BETWEEN GENERAL ODRIA AND LT. COLONEL LLOSA

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• Publication Date: November 29, 1948
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Cerrois "ilitary Junta, who led a revolt against him.)
SUBJECT Disagreement between General Odria and
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Several sources in Lime have reported that there is a certain amount of dis-
agrvement between General Manuel Odria and Lt. Colonel Alfonso Llosa, his
fiinister of Development and Public Works.
2. Llosa was previously reported to have been disappointed in the 25X1A2g
cabinet post offered him, and Odria is said to be disconcerted by the popular
support which Llosa halo A larger crowd greeted Llosa at the airport when he
arrived in Lima than was on hand to meet Odria. A large crowd also gathered
at the Palace when Llosa was sworn in to the Cabinet. On this occasion,
Llosa was surrounded by a group of his friends, and Odria is said to have
left with a gesture of annoyance. This incident caused the whisper to cir-
25X1A6a culate among; the generals friends, 1112osa will be the Jimenez of Odria. "
Comment. The reference is to Comandante Jimenez, a member of Sanchez
It is believed that Llosa and Lt. Colonel Marcial Merino might form the
nucleus of an anti-Odria movement within the Government. Llosa and Serino
were both on Sanchez Cerrors military staff, Llosa as his military aide in
1930-31, and Merino as a member of his General Staff and the Ministry of
25X1 X6 71ar during; the same period.
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An indication of the existence of rival groups within the present regime is
the report that on 2 November, the ::sinister of Government instructed Colonel
Gonzales, Prefect of Cuzco, to take orders from "Odriats man, Vallejcs", and
no from Alejandro Izaguirre (Jyzaguirre). The latter is known to a close
personal adherent of Llosaes. The dispute arose over a group of prisoners
t;_-, en during the revolution, whose release was ordered by Izagurre, without
co-o irmation from Vallejos.
`, The following day, Izaguirre is known to have communicated with Llosa in
25X1 A6a ?:.:Ina, using the code name ",.2arte" and to have conveyed his -pledge to uphold
"The Juliaca Pronouncement" omment, The reference is presumably
Lo the Pronouncement signed by osa and his followers, including Izagul
in Juliaca at the time of the T.Insa-led unrisinrn in. July 194 0. It is believed
that the ambitious group of younger officers look to their own pact of
J.Tu"liaea as symbolic of their basic allegiance.)
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b? The following story,circulatind among Communist groups in Lima, is taken
as an indication of a lack of coordination within the Goverment. It is
said that when tiosa took charge of the iAinistry of Development, he ad-
:iressed a meeting of all of the employees of the Ministry, and after a
revolutionary harangue, demanded a signed resignation from each of them.
He stated that each case would be studied separately before re-employment
was confirmed. The following day, Odria issued a communique informing all
Government employees that thej.r jobs were secure and that only those who
thereafter engaged in political activities would be removed from their
positions.
7. It is reported that Communist leaders have issued orders that all evidence
of disagreement within the present Government is to be riven the widest
possible circulation in a whispering campaign to discredit the Military
,junta in the eyes of the people,
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