COMMUNIST ARRESTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007100730005-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 30, 1999
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: April 4, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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F TIC N4 REPORT CD No.
SUBJECT Co- .fist Arrests
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DATE. OF
INFO. 31 January 1951
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On 31 Janu xy 19519 the police in Tarifa, Bolivia, notified the Director
General of Police at La Paz that Rodolfo LoVza, Viscarra and Gladys Emilia
Guevara I=mzabal had been arrested that horning and that a large quantity
of Cor nmist rropaganda had been found in their rossossion.* They were
taken to La Paz and were in prison awaiting trial as of the middle of Februarys,
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According to source, the rroraganda, carried by these individuals consisted
of thousands of conies of a red-covered ml eogra nhed. publication entitled
"Cotnriunist Politics, Elementary Course of Dducetion, Course No. 1, Part Z.,"
rublished by the Communist Party of Boliv'i?a; conies of a 24rage printed
brochure, dated 10,5f, outlining the revolutionary program for Bolivia. of
the Corrmuaist Party; a ouantity of blanks for signatures of adherents to
the Stockholm Declaration; and a pamrhlet on the resolutions and activities
of the Second World Congress of the Partisans of Peace, held during November
1-950 in Warsaw.**
25X1A * Corr eat: The Tarifa police telegraphed the narre of the woman
apprehended as Gladys Emilia Guevara Irrazabal. However, the newsy?rer
La Fwzon on 18 February 195.1 gave her last nave as do Luksic, wife of
25X1 A Lis I?dksic m (In- it was reported that the Bolivian police hae
received inforriatinn from Communist informants to the effect that Luis I&ksic
has been recognized as the Secretary General of the Bolivian Communist Party,)
Cor ant: Because of the cuality of the rrinting of this propaganda,
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it is felt th~?t the material cane from outside of Bolivia; however,, the
police have bef-n unable to learn where the rropagande came from.
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