DIVISION OF SPANISH COMMUNIST PARTY POLITICAL BUREAU

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002300740002-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 6, 2000
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: February 10, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

INFORMATION REPORT
CENTRAWW AGENCY REPORT
DP82-00457ROO23 g~r
CLASSIFICATION ,,;`i /C0NTRGL ?- Al S ONLY
Approved For
COUNTRY Spain/France/Czechoslovakia
SUBJECT Division of Spanish Communist Party
Political Bureau
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF INF
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1. The Political Bureau of the Spanish Communist Party will be split in two,
according to information received by source in late January 1949. One
group., composed of the older members, will go to Prague but will maintain
clandestine direction of the Party's policies. The other, which source
predicted would be headed by Juan COMOR RA, will be composed of the more
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recently named members and will continue to operate openly in France as
long as circumstances permit. Comment. The names of members
of the enlarged Political Bureau'were reported in
2. Felipe M. ARCONADA, leader of the Spanish Communists in Mexico who was
among those recently appointed to the Political Bureau, will carry on in
the Western Hemisphere.
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