COMMUNIST ELIMINATED FROM ELECTORAL REGISTRY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002200560004-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 15, 1999
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: December 21, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORM
COUNTRY Chile if , I L. a iTE DISTR. 18 Dan
SUBJECT Communists :~..].fminated f'nnm Electoral Registry
ACQUIRED O TO CIA LIBRARY
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the following background information of the events leading
urn to the publication in the Santiago press of names of Communists to be
eliminated from the electoral registry. 25X1X6
1. About the middle of December, Gonzalez Videla called the officials of the
Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals, as well as various members of the
Electoral Tribunal, to La Moneda. The President proposed that publication
of the list of persons barred from the electoral registry should be delayed
until February. This delay in notification that they had been eliminated
would mean that the Communists would not have time nor opportunity to aps,
peal the question before the courts. The President displayed copies of the
Communist circular which outlined the plans of the Communists to prevent
their being barred. cimnent, This circular contained an explantty-
tion of the Government's application of the Ley de Defense in eliminating
Communist Party members from the electoral registers. There were also in.,' 25X1A6a
atructions to the various re;;ional and local committees of the Communist
Party on the methods of filing appeals as soon as the names were published.
Methods were suggested on concealing electoral registration data by those
Party members not known by the Goverment.) The President suggested that
a delay in publishing the lists would be the best way to circumvent the
Communists.
2? The officials listened to Gonzalez Videla and left La Moneda without clearly
expressing their opinions, but they gave the President the impression that
they would reject his proposal. Unofficially, the members of the court
communiccted with the Director of the Electoral Register and advised that
they would be no party to retarding the publication of ,the . lists, They added
that they were disposed to hear all appeals and would render decisions within
the legal periods. In private comments these court officials stated that
they "did not desire to aid the establishment of a dictatorship through the
malicious application of a law". Comment. This failure of Gonzalez
Videla has been a great shock to a :iing political camps where it aeW 25X1X6
believed that the President could command respect in any situation.)
Comment. Thai first list containing names of Communists to be elimina ,aV4 AG..
1948. Other lists have appeared sn
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