PEDRO EDMUNDO SOUQUET, COMMUNIST LABOR LEADER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R004600230009-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 9, 2000
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: April 7, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Venezuela CONFIDENTIAL
SUBJECT Pedro Edmundo Souquet,
Communist Labor Leader
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1. Pedro Edmundo Souquet, we. Pedro Edmundo Suquet, Venezuelan Communist
labor leader, is at present Claims Agent and leader of the Sindicato do
Trabajadores Petroloros (STP) do los >unicipios Simon Rodriguez y Cantaura,
which is also called the STP do El Tigre. This is the leading red or
Partido Comunista do Venezuela (-?,CV) - controlled syndicate in the San Tone
El Tigre - Cuico Camp area of central Anzoategui. Souquet is also reported
to control indirectly the red STP del :~unicipio Guanipa, or STP do El PPigrito,
which has membership in the same area.
2. Souquet was born in the town of Tabasco, Lonagas, Venezuela, on 12 January
1915. His father was MMaximiamo Souquot, a Tabasco man; his mother, Ilaria
do Souquet, was from San Joaquin, Anzoategui. He was employed by Creole
Petroleum Corporation prior to April 1940, and worked for i.ene Grande Oil
Company, S. A. as a warehouse checker from 21 June 1940 to 20 August 1945,
when he was discharged. During this period he was treated for a severe case
of syphilis. At the present time he resides at El Tigre with his concubine,
Lila Pacheco.
3. Subject began his syndical activities in 1945. On 26 June 1945 he was an
officer in the Sindioato de Obroros y Emp]s ados Petroleros (SOEP') do El
Tigre, a white or Accion Democratica union. After his discharge, he was a
professional worker in this union, but later transferred to the ST" do los
I unicipios Simon Rodriguez y Cantaura, a competing union in the same area.
At that time he stated he made the change because the STP paid him more
money.
4. In the red union ho was an assistant to t=anuel Taborda, who was then the
syndicate leader. He remained an understudy to Taborda until the latter
entered the national labor field. Taborda is now a loader of Ct UTRAPET,
the red union federation, and an active Communist. Souquet then became
chief Claims Agent for the syndicate and has held that position up to the
present time.
25X1X s. Souquet has a membership card in the PCV and is now a
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fervent Party member who follaws Party instructions blindly. Ile its popular
and a rood speaker, but is not considered very intelligent. He stated to
that he efou]d fight for Russia and tha+ ha
This document is hereby regraded to
CONFIDENTIAL in accordance with the
letter of 16 October 1978 from the
Director of Central Intelligence to the
Archivist oa the United States.
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. Souquot has been
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in hiding since the and of 1949 and is at the present time sought by the
police.
6. Souquet was a candidate for deputy from the State of Anzoategui on'the PCV
ticket in 1947, He was also a candidate for municipal elections on the
Party ticket, an agent for Arui Este, former PCV newspapor, and at one time
a representative to COSUTRA "from ;astern Venezuela.
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