POST ELECTION POLICIES OF CHILEAN COMMUNIST PARTY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002600300003-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 24, 1999
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: April 14, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

FORM NO. 51-4A
SEPT.1948
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INFORMATZO CT CD NO.
COUNTRY Chile
SUBJECT Post Election Policies of Chilean Communist
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The following instructions, passed clandestinely to cells of the Communist
Party of Chile (PCCh) in Santiago, stress the post-election orientation of
Party activity.
a. Dispose of all election flyers, pamphlets, books and instructions in
the possession of the militants.
b. Be alert for instructions which will be given regarding labor propaganda.
c. Decrease the attendance at the Frente Nacional Democratico meeting places.
Information on this point will be given to the cell through the proper
person designated within the cell.
d. Renew efforts to collect funds for the Party to make up the sums spent
on the elections.
Give special attention to the woments organizations. Each cell must
designate a woman member to take charge of such groups. The Party is
studying a general plan to increase this phase of its work, and hopes to
convince the women that it will help.them in their problems and will
study with them the best manner in which they can solve their difficulties.
oppression of all types.
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f. Perfect techniques for continuing activity during the period of illegality.
Members must accustom themselves not to use the telephone; there will be
no established meeting places; they will have to work in the most isolated
manner possible. With this preparation, when the time arrives for the
Party to work completely underground, the methods of operating will be
perfectly worked outl The older members have a special task in this work.
They must assist the novices, and prevent them from making any mistakes
which would cause a lowering of the morale of the less experienced militants.
g. Party members are reminded that the primary purpose of the Party was not
to obtain seats in the National Congress., but rather to construct a labor
movement for Chilean workers which will mean total liberation from present
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2. The Political Commission has worked out the following general points of
policy under the direction of Raul Barfga Silva:
a. The attempt to arrange a rapprochement between the PCCh and Carlos Ibanez
del Campo should be continued. The work of bringing General Ibanez "into
the fold" was begun before the electoral period and is,a continuing project,
b. The Party will try to have Pablo,Neruda set free without any kind of penalty
so that he may return to the Senate for four years, joining the two rbther
Communist Senators, Elias Lafertte and Salvador Ocampo. The Oommission of
attorneys of the Communist Party, Jorge Jiles and Rene Frias, will report
on their plan for defending Neruda in the courts.
c. Humberto Abarea will continue his negotiations intended to unite the anti-
government parties into a single fighting force. This attempt will be
coordinated with the effort to win over Carlos Ibanez del Campo and the
defense of the Partyts position in backing the candidacy of Guillermo del
Pedre gal.
d. The Party plans to use the old machinery of El Siglo to assist any opposi-
tion group to put out a paper which will attack the government. Officials
of the PCCh predict that the government will try to confiscate this machinery
under the Law of Defense of Democracy, but they believe that it can be saved
through the influence of political figures who are sympathetic to the Com-
munist Party. Deputy Cesar Godoy Urrutia is in charge of the program for the
utilization of El Siglo.
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