FINANCES OF COMMUNIST PARTY OF CHILE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002700120002-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 11, 1999
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: April 8, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Chile
SUBJECT Finances of Communist Party of Chile
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Direct Financial Aid to the PCCh from the USSR
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1. No financial aid has come directly to the PCCh from the USSR, although
funds have been obtained indirectly from Russian sources through the
sale in Chile of books and articles which were furnished free of charge
by the Communist Party in Moscow. The PCCh received, for example, a
shipment of books in Spanish published by the Institute of Foreign
Languages of Moscow. The books were sent in great quantities for sale
throughout Chile at a relatively low price which would be' within the
reach of the laborer. The books which furnished the best source of
revenue and had the beat circulation were:
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e coca a worse Stalin, which sold for 400 pesos
The discourses of Stalin, which sold for 3.00 pesos
2. The PCCh also received free of charge a great quantity of sketches of
world Communist leaders which were sold to the general public in various
bookstores throughout the country. No other evidence of financial as-
sistance from the Soviet Union has been uncovered.
Transfer of Funds from .Forei Communist Parties to the PCCh
3. According to source, the last transfer of funds occurred in 1933 when funds
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4. The normal funds of the Communist Party come from the following sources:
a. 3"0,000 pesos a month are received from the approximately 50,000
militants whose dues are scaled according to the salary of each.
b. The entire salaried of the Communist congressmen are handed over'to
the Party whichthen.pays them a monthly stipend. All public em-A
ployces who have been placed in their positions by the Communist
Party must also hand over their salaries to the Party in return for
a monthly allowance.
c. 13efore the Party was outlawed, it operated various commercial ventures
such as the newspaper El Silo, the Radio Nacion, and several printing
and bookstore enterprises This source of revenue has been cut off,
since the Party has been declared illegal and the companies have been
liquidated.
The regular finances of the PCCh are under the direction of Luis
Valenzuela Valenzuela, who has under him as treasurer Arnulfo Rubillar,
and as assistant directors, Pedro Hidalgo and Senora Haydee Alarcon.
These persons are in charge of collecting dues from the militants. The
majority of Party members pay their dues by purchasing stamps which are
sold in the cells, and which the cells buy from the local committees,
the local committees from the regional committees, who in turn purchase
them from the Central Committee.
b. Special funds include collections from various money-raising campaigns.
Cesar Godoy Urrutia has charge of these funds and his assistant is Carlos
Hudnevic.
7. Former Deputy Andres Escobar Diaz is the treasurer of Party funds and is
in charge of the liquidation of commercial enterprises in which ,the PCCh
has an interest.
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