(Sanitized)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002200660008-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 26, 1999
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: January 1, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUBJECT 2
At? Mayorga
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1. Roberto Mayorga, Argentina Communist. who has been in Mexico since march
1948, is regarded by Mexican Communist leaders as an expert on labor matters
in the satin American republics. According to Manuel Terrazas, member of
the Political Bureau of the Partido Comunista Mexican (PCA,-Mexican
communist Party), Mayorga also has furnished to Vicente Lombardo Toledano
information concerning the labor situation in Argentina, Colombia, Chile.
Brazi L, Venezuela, and Costa Rica,
2 A. second source has stated that although Mayorga did not seem to have any
specific duties at PCM headquarters, he appeared to serve as an adviser
to the leaders of the Party, with whom, he was in almost daily contact until
two months ago when he was prostrated with an attack of undulant fever.:
3,. The same source stated that he had first met Mayorga at Party headquarters
in July 1948. During subsequent meetings Mayorga spoke of having attended a
school for Party organizers in Moscow, and of having visited Moscow on other
oc:at,ions. He was in Spain working as an organizer for the Party at the
beginxting of the Spanish Civil War, and thereafter he served in an unspecified