PRETENDED SPLIT IN MOVIMIENTO NACIONALISTA REVOLNCIONARIO RANKS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002100560001-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 21, 1999
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: December 9, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Bolivia
SUBJECT Pretended Split in Movimiento ilacionalista
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Revoluoionario Bunks
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REPORT NO.
1. according to source, the newspaper accounts of a serious split in the I' -lovimi.ento
ilacionalista Revolueionario tMIJR) were inspired by the Party i.tself to mislead
the Governrient. The reported split between the followers of Alberto Taborga
and those of Victor Paz Lstensnoro does not exist. Come its It h.~as been
reported in the La Paz press that the schien in the . d resulted in Paz
Letenssoro's ,group expelling Taborga from the Party.)
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2. Luis Penaloza, who escaped police custody and returned to La Paz, was again
apprehended, and it is believed that he has been deported to Chile.
3. These additional nembers of the IdR have been arrested and imprisoned at
Pelechuco, north of Lake Titicaca: Jaime San 2 rtin, Juan /ruilar, and Telmo
Siles,. The reason for their detention was their participation in the riots in
the National Cong esp. ,'he Cochabamba newspaperzaan, Gaston Mendizabal ` anta
Cruz, has been released fron Guayanerin.
4.
Augto Cuadros Sanchez remains at large?
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