POLITICAL BUREAU OF MAJOR OSORIO

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002400620011-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 22, 1999
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: March 14, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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DATE DISTR.
14 sir 1949
SUBJECT
Political Bureau of Wijor t]aorio
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1,, Major Oscar Osorio, leading menber of the Salvadoran govxrning junta, has
set up a secret "Political `U.. 3ur'san" whose purpose is to or ,-anise a counter-
offensive of anti-leftist forei$s in opposition to the Comxunist Party,
the Partido de Orientaeiona 1,emoeratics (POD) and the Part.da Accion henovadora
(PAR). The Political. Bureau cor.sists of the following me i : ?!sjor Jose
&lberto Funes, Lt. Col. Aden Parada, Lt. Col. Miguel Paraia, !4'ajor Arnoldo
,.odezno, Major lafae]. Carranza Amaya, and Major lareel E,3inozao Not even
the members of the Salvadoran r;overning junta, including )sorio'e military
colleague, Major Oscar Bolanor, know of the existence of the Political
Bureau
2,, The first report of the Bateau is entitled "Report on th? Activities of the
Political Bureau (Confidential for Major Osorio)." It crmmences with the
s t, atement that the Bureau ins created tc pcrform two sertces necessery to
the conquest of political ?asitions in the forthcoming mstituent Assembly
and presidential election. , These services are the infc.mation Service
and organization Service. The report Is divided into ti) sections dealing
with the two servicets,~
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The Information Service is! recruiting agents to report ?n the activities
of the following or1,taniz--ttons :
a) PAR, former partir ct (qDl. Jose Ascencio Menendez, vh: ch has
Guatemalan connect.cne through the Comite Salvadore.l) Liberacion
Ivacional (CSLW) n
>) POD, run by lef+,,st st&ident$,
) Comite de Orgs:.-issacion Obrera (CflO), which plans to +-ganiz all
labor.,
.i) The Communis', Party., shich, according to the report, "as succea')fully
infiltrated .cey positions in the government, and whit' aims to
influence t're forthcoming elections by gaining Army a. i labor support.
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G, The Information Service reported that political parties of former
presidential candidates ,are also disposed to join in the anti-leftist
bloc or coalition, These parties and their former candidates includes
Partido iiacional Democrats ---Professor Jose Andres Orantes
Partido Social Lemocrata-0smin Aguirre
Partido Union Nacional-oEepinola Castro
Partido Fraternal i'rogresiata-w-0ener*l ciaremount
Partido Lemocrata Republicans-General Pena Trejo
Orantes has offered his narty!s unconditional cooperation, and the other
parties go along with Political Bureau objectives, though the candidates
themselves, having already been eliminated, did not personally endorse the
affiliation.
The Information Service report concluded with a statement that it recognized
that Mexican and Guatemalan elements were supporting the leftist in-
filtration of the Salvadoran government. It added that Major Humberto
Villalta'e influence with ajo5-1 r Hamberto
junta, prior to his removal by
Osorio, had involved El Salvador with the old pattern of conspiracies carried
on by the CBLN, which organization was still-connected with the you
militarists in the government; The report stated the Information service's
specific mission to be the co*oiling of data to neutralize press and other
propaganda against the goveruL.:" junta. The-data would also serve as
organization guide for the coalition forces.
6. The second arm of the Political Bureau, the Service of Organization_. Press
and Propaganda, stated as itsobjectives the formation and utilization of
the following combination of rties to support Major Norio:
a) The Partido Demoerata Progresista (PDP) based on
1) a coalition of .former political parties (as described in paragraph 4
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2) Capital
3) Clergy
4) The conservative element of the people
b) The Partido Revolucionario Salvadoreno (PRS) based on
1) The Army
2) Labor(already partially organized)
7, These two parties would be organized independently but would be secretly
synchronized by a Central Directive Board which would force their public
unification when elections for the Constituent Assembly are called, The
basic political party would be the PDP, while the PRS would aim its program
at the laboring class in, general, and would combat the leftists by their
own revolutionary methods such as the formation of factions within labor
unions.
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According to source, the orgar4 aat?On of the AM as members of at
separate political party was not contemplated, since it was felt that the
Array- would understand and cooperate with the PRS as a workers party
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25X1A6a Cogent. described activities of the Army in providing
the newly4-formed PDP with- a newspaper, El Debate. The Array was elso
described as the motivating fare behind the movement to recruit and ally
partisans of the former political partiese
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