PEDRO ENRIGQUE ALFONSO BARRIOS, CHILEAN MINISTER OF INTERIOR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R004600560007-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 10, 2000
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: April 12, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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Pedro Enriquo Alfonso Barrios. Chilean
itinister of Interior
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.., The newly appointed Chilean t iniste:' of the Int= rior9 Pedro Enrique Alfonso
Barrios, who is excected to be actin,, president while Gonzalez Videla is
in the United Str:Lt;as in April 1950, is reported to have had cordial relations
with the Corriunists in the pant. He bel_on;s to the left wins; of the Radical
Party of Chilo
(. In October 1945, he was appointed a -vice president of the Instit-xto Chi.lene
de Relaciones Culturales con la Union Sovieticn (Chilean-Soviet Cultural
Relations institute) r a Conranist-front organi ration. Ia :September 1947,
Alfonso was renortod still to be an ninnort.ant" rienber of the In:,titute.
Howw ever, it is noted that on 20 Deccrtbe ? 1945, Antonio Rios, then President of
Chile, net with re'resentatives of the Central Co* :ittee of the Communist Party
re7ardinp? conditions under which the Cooinnzn.i.ets would ant--er the Rios rover .ent,.
One of the Communists' conditions w .s that Rios should not appoint Alfonso a
member of the proposed cabinet.
4? Information obtained in October 191,2 indicated that Alfon,,;o, together with
t oracio Walker Larrain, the present l'inistor of .Foreir n R1 lations, were at that
tine both members and Probable "legal counsellors" of the Orguni zcion do
Defensa Juridica contra el Espiona,Je? nazi-Facista, an organization desi :ned to
2 iX . t llazi and Fascist espionage activities in chile0
_ uCo*nlent~:} Although Alfonso has been considered pro-Communist in the pasty
it is believed that, like Gonzalez , idela, he has changed his viotrs recently,,
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