COMMUNIST 'LATIN AMERICAN INFORMATION COMMITTEE'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005000600006-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 5, 1999
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: June 20, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT,,
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COUNTRYChile
DATE DISTR. 20 JUN 50
URJ `"i Communist 't Latin American
Information Committee"
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According to recent information the Coraaanist 25X1X
"Latin American Inf or^a `ion Committee" which was nrevtrnz ay reported
to be supplying an information service to the Latin American Communist
Parties from "`exico, may be located in Guatemala. Guatemala's Presi-
dent lrevalo ren::xrtedly has offered his personal assistance to Pablo
DTeruda, Cesar Godoy Urrutia, Crisologo Gatica Munoz, Luis Enrique Delano
and various Venezuelan and Colombian Communist exiles who allegedly are
connected with the Information Office.
2. The Latin American Information Of'sica is one of the me-ins available to
the Comin?orm In Europe to disseminate the Communist political line to
the Latin American Comrauntsts. The Information Office is not considered
to be a Latin American Cominform for the following reasons:
as There are not delegates to it from all the Latin Amer. ican countries?
b. Instructions regarding the local political line to be followed by
the different Communist Parties are not issued,
c. It does not act in a liaison capacity for the Latin IUnerican Com-
munist Parties.
dm It was not establ' shed through the common agreement of the Latin
American Communist a'art.ies.
3. It has been learned that the anti.--Communist Chilean Socialists have
attempted to spread in Chile the rumors that a Latin American Comin-
form has been establ; &ted under the control. of Pablo Neruda and Cesar
Godoy Urrutia, Chilean Communists now in Mexico or Guatemala. These
rumors apparently have been spread in order to discredit the Communists,
there is also established in Mexico the Democratic
Chi! can orr~mi t 'ee, which lists a nong its members: Lazaro Cardenas,,
forr. er President of '?'exico; Dr. Jo ,e Giral, former Premier of the .Ropub-
lican Spanish Govertsment; and Pablo N'eruda. This group reportedly was
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organized under the ausni.ces of Vicente Lombardo Toled;hno to raise funds
for the Chile-in political refugees.y r:o information has been received
that the nhilean Democratic Committee is the same as the Latin American
Information Office.
Field Comments This r. eoort is considered of interest although it is
realized that the facts of the subject matter remain obscure:, It is
believed that the sources of this report are confused and that Viere
is a nossiblity that three offices of information exist in Latin krerica:
Chilean Democratic Committee in 1'exicoa Probably functions on behalf of
the Chilean Communist Party only, and is in i. ia.ison with other foreign
Communist Party groups0
Chilean-Yoxican Institute in 'ex .cos Probably exists in name only for
pro, ag anda n:lrooses 0
Latin American Information Office. :Jhoreabouts and existence not defi?.,
Wifely established to date0 It is nos.iblo that this information function
is carried out by the General Headquarters of CTAr1 in ?,,exico City and that
the latter receives Coininform type information through the facilities of
the 1JFTU for dissemination to Latin American Communist Parties through
the medium of local committees such as the Chilean Democratic Cor nittee.
However,, the Chilean Democratic Committee in r exico may be identical with
the Mexican-Chilean Institute which was formed in Mexico on 2 h.nril 1950
with La.zaro Cardenas as honorary .resident,
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