COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES IN GUATEMALA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R006000090001-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 12, 1999
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: October 11, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Guatemala
SUBJECT Comwuni-9t activities in Guatemala
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Ir spite of the order given by the P'inister of Government on 13 September
1950 to the Director of the Guardia C'vil to store the circulation of
Cctubre, the newspaper is still being distributed. The latest issue,
-7,1s dated 13 September 1950, and source vas able to o':tain a copy
at the headquarters of Cctubre on 20 September 1950.
2. The r"arxist Jacobo Sanchez School, which began operating on 11 September
1.950, is still. holding classes, according to source, Fe noted twenty
persons leaving the class that tar held on the evening rf 19 September
at Octubre headquarters. Cesar Godoy Urrutia, Chilean Cor.!mun' st, attended
the opening of the school and made a speech for the benefit of the new
c t.udent s.
3. During the three day,, during which the Rio Pact swan discussed i.- the
Guatemalan Congress, from 13 through 19 September 1950, the Communists
managed to have a delegation of about a hundred-and-fifty to two hundred
persons in the gal? er^y, It was noted that the following' organizations
had representation:
Alia a Femin.inna Guatomalteca (AFG)
Federacion Sindical de Guatemala (FSG)
Confederacion de Traba ador.s do Guatemala (CT'G)
rid.icato do Tra-bajadcres de Tducacicn de Guatemala (ST :G)
7 ianza de la Juventud Democractica Guatemalteca (AJDG)
`.The Oct.ubre Group
ti group from the Central Normal School for Boys
Source estimat_>d that more than half of these persons scarcely knew what
wa being discussed, and had obvious_y been brought along by their leaders,
J3.i so, in spite of the 'forts of the Communist elements, the Rio Pact was
ratified on 19 September by a vote of fifty-six to two.
fr?. It was noted that although Partido Accion P.evolucionaria deputy, Francisco
'il,ra Falla, had favored the motion that a committee of Congress consider
the order from the r-'inietor of Government closing Octub re, he redeemed
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himself sorewhat at the closing session of Congress, According to source,,
Silva made a good speech favoring the ratification of the Rio Pact and
:severely criticized the Communists for opposing it,
Comore t4 The Con-ressional Committee has not yet reported on Cct_bte_.
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