VISIT OF ENRIQUE GIL GILBERT TO PERU

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• Publication Date: August 3, 1949
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY Ceuador/peru
SUBJECT Visit of Enrique Gil Gilbert to Peru
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1. Enrique Gil Gilbert, a leading Ecuadoran Cornai:nist, and h1 wife, Alba do (Tilt.
left Lima, Peru on 14 July 1949 via Faucett Airlines returning to Ecuador.
Gil Gilbert and his wife arrived in Lima on 4 ipril from Guayaquil.
2. After a period of, political inactivity enforced principally by his wife's ill-
ness, Gil Gilbert as extremely active during his last weeks in Lira. He hold,
frequent conferences with Peruvian Coznmmist leaders; he established the Pero
"Pro Paz" committee; and he assisted in organizing CorrAmist labor elements :Lei
the Lima area.
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a 4 us. Gil paid tribute to the work of Pedro P;us~d
wars, he said, one of the bulwarks of their Party.
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6e He indicated that the Gabo Plaza government in Ecuador appeared ~,
favor of the work n to be 1?a _z
i class in spite of the fact that Plaza spent a short
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in the United States prior to his inauguration, presumably to receive instruo a.
and plane from +.h Ty--4
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5. The Corer ist Party of Ecuador (PCE) was prepared to reduce itself to the Cent:, ; ' .
C ittee alone, he continued, and with this nucleus of tried and true fi htur,
build a new Party that could take its place beside the best of Latin .Rzrica
the airal
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o the PCP in Lima. at which Gil stated that one of
his missions in Peru was to do what he could to ensure closer collaboration in
the future between the Cor munist Parties of Peru and Ecuador. Reporting on hi,
own Party he stated that it had recently been completely reorganized, and he
stated that it too faced the saws problem as the PCP, namely the problem of
purifying the Party of all elements capable of betraying the laboring class =c
serving capitalist interests, such as the Lunaa and the Cerpas of Peru.
-.1-- 3- Although Carrrnunist Party of Peru (I'CP) leaders were naturally aware of Gills
presence in Peru, no contact was reported between them and Gil until 7 flay whe:.
Gil paid a visit to the PCP bookstore Nuevo llorizonte, Cafe iiegreims 5 , an
length as established soon as contact with possiblethew, Indicating his desire to confer with then at
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4. A Ming gars Immediately arranged with Jorge del Prado, Manuel Ugarte and r~eetz . ,F s
of the Political Cos
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7. ~'eferring to I\'ruvian Ecuadoran relations? Gil condemned the action of the
two governmento in artificially creating border incidents to distract attent~'f.
fr r internal ti'oubles and to mislead the people. In opposition to this, x
declared, all pa-)plea must unite to seep foam being used as the tools of
iictatorial regimes and military interests.
8. Gil stressed again the importance of the dee.isl on of the PCE to str:+xigthen its
)elations with othir Communist" Parties of the hemisphere), which a Fi:ording to
It4m had been plarmr;d with tho greatest care, lie requested a re:.art from PCF
I eaders on the Peruvian thfma scheduled for
25X1 A fortnight later. ( iW_ held no further
r!eetinga with PCP .Gaders during My.
9. Ct1. was listed as :special correspondent, on the mast1n ad of the r(wspczper Ik ?t
A.Iaes.. that appea-md in Lima on 15 may, and the paper printed tin interuview.'ri'.f?i
him in its inside :ages. Ile also gave a lecture at the cultural society, Insul. ,
in Niraflores on its May on "Law Narrativa Eouatoriera Conte p ra' ea". IL w Com-
mw:ist Party leaded had planned to attend, but we ?e prevented ::'rori doing so bb>
the death of Jorge del Pr do's sister, ?Maria Antornieta del Pra& do Ponce riar3: _ao, ;~
the ;previous mo:t?xairlg.
10. Enriekuo Gil held a second series of meetWx with. PCP leaders early in June at
which ho received a report from Jorge del P.rado on the st?atu~r and activities o:
the PCP and on th3 political situation in Peru. He promisee, to transmit this
to Ecuador so thada?, a strong propaganda sign might be irr r tiated there again?-,,
the Peruvian Military Junta, and so that the comrades of E.saador might know the:
magnificent stand -taken and the progress male by the PCP ,.n spite of its illeg0J.
status.
11. Once atgain, Gil stressed the necessity of joint efforts and of collaboration to
defeat. "the imperialist plans of the Department of Sta?;;o and its lackeys, the
subsery3ent governments of Latin America.' He indica.:ed at these meetings that
one of alis primary objootives in Peru eras to obtain r,.11 possible support for ti?,
ampane.pro Pas which he said had been ordered by "the comrades of the old
world" and which, accosiiing to him,, tms bUng carriad out everywhere with such
conspicuous success.
12. It was consequently agreed that a luncheon ohoule be held with Gil as the guest
of honor and principal speaker on 12 June to launch the "pro-Paz" campaign in
Peru. Dotails of organtsing the event we:ae turned over by the Political Commi r a
of the PCP to a committee consisting of E;l.ias Tovar, Alfredo Matthews, Jorge
Falcon, .'?rancIsco Febres? Enrique Felices) L. U. Grosman and Pepita Pizarro. A
luncheon was believed to be not only the most, effective way of initiating such -t
ea aignf but also the be$-10 way of circu venting the state of siege which might
prevent such a meting on the grounds thtt it was a political gathering.
13. Gil stated that he was sure that "Um agents of imperialism" were following his
moves clossiy, and he cited many instances from his past travel and activities.; H
was much interested to hear of the difficulties of Francisco Febrewhich he
characteri.,zed as direct evidence of the C.S. Department of State's campaign to r- ?, :>
and identify all outstanding Conm nists. Gil stated that he huinsel,f might travt;:
soon to Mexico and that he might seek to obtain a U.!3. visa from there to
if he could. what information the "ag;entit, of imperialism" might have concernin . ii-im,
14Q The luncheon was postponed at Giles request because of the illness of his wife,
was held on 19 June at the Jaidism Malambo, General Vidal 155, Rune, owed by
Rosita Rios, a close friend of the Party,
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15. So M. fifty ticl ats to the luncheon, and "almuerzo criollo", were sold at thirty
soles apiece and the fo L3 atr1 have been identified as attends ;
Enrique Gil Gilbert Alejandra Reten er
Alba Calderon do Gil Elias Tovar
Catalina Reravarrrn do Zizold L..ld. Groomn
Laura Caller Dr. A. Caballero Mendez
Dr. J. Uriel Garcia Jose Carlos Barriga
Maria R. de Care's Checa Luis And:La
Enrique Camino Brent Alfredo l in v Gheww
Pepita Pizarrr, Julio del Prado
Jose ::arcos Godino Enrique Foliose
Dr. Hugo Peace Hector N. Galv'ez
Moises Arroyo osada Then stooles i3e jarano
Cesar Barrio _ Jorge del Prado
Jorge Falcon Francisco Febras
Olt a Carnal no do T atthews A. Campos
Elena de Tovar Manuel Moreno Jimeno
Albert Tauro
`- 6. In additions the following are known to have purchased ticlmts in support, of
the luncheon but to have failed to attend for various reasonsa
Dr. Ovidio Garcia Rosell
Rosa Hurwitz
Nugusto Tamayo Vargas
Jose Antonio Encinas
IIo Echaogaray
Augasto Urteaga
Rodolfo Ponce Martinez
Guillermo Zegarra
Ihian n Oyague
Carlos Arbulu Miranda
Jose Reecio
Ernesto Rojas Zavala
A bnuel Ugarte `' .ld