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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002200110002-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 21, 1998
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: November 15, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Peru/Colombia
SUBJECT Dr.. Salvador Rosenthal, Alleged Representative
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF INFO
Government of Israel
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1,, Dr. Salvador Rosenthal,. Colombian national, announced upon his arrival
in Peru on 30 September 1948 that the purpose of his visit was to pre-
pare for the recognition of the government of Israel by Peru. Rosenthal,
who gives his title as "Oficial de Enlace del Gobierno Provisional de
Israel" (Official Liaison of Us Provisional Government of Israel).,
states that he attended the Inter-American Jewish Conference in Balti,moreQ
Maryland, in 1941 and a similar conference in Washington in 1945, and
that he represented the Jewish Agency at the recent inauguration of the
President of Venezuela. In May 1948, he states that he 'completed a trip
to Central America on behalf of that agency, and since that time.has
traveled to Ecuador and Panama on similar missions.. He is now on a tour
of the South American countries to make preparations for the recognition
of Israel.
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2. He last visited Peru in 1925 as a student, according to his statement,
and has been a resident of Bogota for ten years, where. among other
activities, he edits the magazine Atid (Future).
3. Although previously reported to have had little formal education, a Lima
publication indicates that Rosenthal, who lists his profession as dentist,
obtained his foul education at the Spanish Universities of Santiago de
Compostela, Madrid, and San Carlos, receiving a degree from the last-named,,
So far nothing has been'reported concerning Rosenthal, since his arrival
in Peru., to confirm or contradict his alleged Communist beliefs. His
principal contact in Lima has been Isaac Wecselman, Zionist leader in the
city, who., like Rosenthal, was born in Besarabia, and was at one time de-?
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