COMMUNIST MEETINGS RAIDED BY CHILEAN POLICE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002700610008-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 23, 1998
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: April 15, 1949
• Content Type: IR

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Communist footings Raided by Chilean Police
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letter of 16 her 1978 from the
Director of Contra !ligence to the
Archivist of the United S.
Next Review Date: 2008
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MAY 1949
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Corrx eunist meetings which the Chilean police raided on 15 April 194; were
por-sdlybeing held in preparation for the rumored Fifth National Congress of
h Corse;' unist Party of Chile (PCCh). Pao information is yet available inddicaa
=:in whether the arrests made in these raids will cause a postponement or will
ot}wr se affect the proposed secret Congress o
iorning of 15 Aprils personnel of the Confidential or Political Control
Division of Chilean lnv+estigacicnea raided a house located at Cal.le I obles 0167
era Santiago. They believed that )otavio GO iUngston Gonzales, who is wanted for
4y.is alleged participation in the revolutionary plot of October 194i18, was hidden
No trace of 0 Kingston Gonzales was found, but police subsequently arrested Juan
tau?,isa Arenas Ganboa, the lessee of the house,, when they found a large quantity
of Communist literature and propaganda, on the promises. Arenas Gantoa stated
that he was the treasurer of tho Connwist organization of the Sixth Comae of
Santiago. and he claimed that his instructions came from f igual Concha Quezada,
forcer ilinister of Agriculture,, who allegedly visited him frequently. Arenas
Cramboa was hold by the police. He is a tailor, 33 years of age, married, and a
ti.ve of Santiago E,
At 11 o vclock on the same moriring;, the residence of Jacinto Carrrasco at Calle
4bertad 1160 was also raided and a clandestine Cenauni t meeting era: disc(.-#vered,
T! ,Le following individuals wore arrested:
x sp Ci t,?s, a Chilean citizen, 53 years of age, single, a
- tine of an Javier, residing in the locality of Paine, Vasquez Cift ntes
a .gritted that about two weeks preeviously he had contacted Alfredo Arco Vega
:Mad the others arrested with him to tell them when the meeting would take
and that its purpose, was to prepare a report for presentation at the
Fifth National Congress of the PCCh0 Vasquez Cifuentes stated tI t the Party
:Nos dens intended to hold such a congress secretly, and that they wished to
tiave available for study information concerning the effective strength on
4hich the Party could count for any demonstrations to be held on I day,,
.lasquez Cifuentes added that Luis Perez I etarnaleta was invited to attend this
meting so that he would subsequently be able to tell ComrTunist farm laborer;
f=i at decisions were reached Vasquez Cifuentes stated that he had presided
t)ver the meeting because he was the senior Communist present.
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CZA 3 ppA, a 43 scar old Chilean citizen, xsa _rr eci :, a
(rid. r?bal.a, who lives at Calla "arita Maria 3C)3 b.taaA.z, Ve[:"?,, ix t-,,.
1ri1ed day laborer,. is a militant Co wiunis and ' : is been a r~? r of
Com ittee ' of the Corr munist Party on several oe:.- asiono
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age and allegedly married to Jacinto Cam s co . Sile. l aimd to no
prior Faaoti:ledge that the meting w;ra, to be of a poll IAc l nati ; . F::d
'chat her husband had merely stated that he was havlitg some:: `r-" enda to
husband of Pros Tina del Cain watalan Ca '. a Rio
"ar rasoo, is a former an Bernardo ruunicip -al wombs: who was :red
h ,-lo Communist affili.a.tions
eta F A vg , a native korn Chileanf 34 mars of age, sand ,nuvin;
s a cobbler and lives at Calle, Balmae eda 721, uin-0
a Chilean n is i 33 yea olds married and na`,jvo
Co Mbar lao He adni_tted to h police that hi- was entrusted with o ?ea
q membership dares fron a nuh.:er of Party although he rel. ed .zo
al their nar