PROPAGANDA TO PROMOTE ANTONIO AS HEAD OF CRO

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002500330009-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 12, 1999
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: March 23, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY El Salvador
SUBJECT Propaganda to Promote 4ntoata
as Head of CRO
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10 a propaganda program designed to insure the naming of Dr. use AA?'nio Dias
'lelaya as new head of the Comte de Teorganizacion Obrera 120) is `'irg 25X1X6
organized by three CIsc of to tale :
Rafael Pena, Secretary of Acts
Daniel Gamero, Secretary of Correep?.ndence
Rafael Guerrero, Secretary of Conflicts
They have undertaken to criticize the policies of Dr, Julio Fausto Fernandez,
who left El Salvador on 22 February to go to Montevideo, Urugual, as Salvadoran
Consul 4etneraloe
2H decent opposition to Communism has made itself apparent in hl Savladorr, both
in resistance to the organizing efforts of the CR0 among labor syndicates, and
in resistance to the Cosmunist Party program of "National Unity". Antonio
Dias is capitalizing Fausto Fernandez' failure to subdue this opposition, and
is being pictured as a man who knows how to fight arich opposition euocesetu3lyo
Dint' propaganda criticizes Fernandes' appeasement )policies and maintains that
the only way to deal with the opposition is to deetiroy Ito He therefore
advocates distrust of an except Communist Party or ganizereo
3, Dina' three propagandists have also begun attaokinF, all unorthodox Oats
as Trotekyista, and are distributing a critique enftitled "Against Trotetcyt '
written by Diaz under the name Pablo Cariboo The cioeument is dated 15 October
1%6r According to Rafael Pena, this work was suppressed by Fernandezo. In
general it blames the Trotekyiate for such Coamcunie t failures as the Spanish
.Civil War and the massacres of 1932 in El Salvador., It accuses the Burn del
Carib" of that time of being Trotskyiata
40 Diaz is a highly indoctrinate 3d !?ta1iniet and adheres
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closely to the Consuniat Party lines
5o Rafael Pena hinted that a purge of the party in El Salvador was iitnente
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