COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES IN RIO DE JANEIRO

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007300360009-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 7, 1999
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: April 20, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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SU,UDJECT Communist Activities in Rio do Janeiro
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INFO. Februar' 1951 .- ;. ' ..i.Y}....W6 . ..,r
3. During February two important underground leaders.of the Communist .Party
of Brazil [ were seen in Rio do Janeiro; The first of these, 14aurieio
Crabois, (.) was reported ;.n August 1950 to be a member of the PCB National
Committee. GGrabois was almost unrecognisable because of his c isguiae. The
other Cor uan.iat leader,, Dinarco Reis, was undisguised and very uell dressed,
4, Reis was reported in March 1947 to be an alternate member of the 8 National.
Committee, and in August 1-947 he had disappeared from Rio. According to
source, Reis, a former Army lieutenant, has been given many secret and
dangerous -nissions by the Party, which has always taken care to hide his
identity ae,
far allowing his picture to appear in its press.
3. While in Rio,, Grabois and Reis entered an office building at rua Ye: co,
25X1X the opinion that they went to see Dr. Aloisio Neiva F:i'ho, (2)
a member of the P03 Metropolitan Committee who handles Party funds.
4. In late Fe' rya, ry 1951, Roberto !Morena, (3) Communist labor leader and Federal
Deputy, ha:: been leading they annual Coumunist campaign against the , o=vern,-
Dnentc s col', action of one days s pay per year, the so.-ca] i.ed "desconto do impos +
sindical,1' which Is due soon.. Morena planned to carry the fight against the
tax to the floor of the Chamber of Deputies. In addition, the. Uniao dos
Traba..Tiadorev. do ' i.strito Federal (Union of Federal District VTorkc r; . UTDF)
and the Co of adoraf o dos Trabaihadores do Brasil (Confederation of Brazilian
liorkers ..C"_'B) planned to issue a manifesto insisting that the tax Is Illegal,,
The FCB amended to link this question with its long-range c pairs to dis-
credit President ` argas by repeated and consistent demands that he 3.'t1fill
his cam , a3 r3 promises to improve the lot of the Brazilian worker . (3 )
At the end of February, the PCB began laying plans for a vigorous nationwide
campaign a ,a1nst the Conference of Foreign Ministers to be held in Washington
in parch. Various Comamur,~ist-front organizations were to take part, and
extensive - xb] iclty was to be carried on through the Party press ? nd the
Issuance thousands of bulletins, leaflets, and pamphlets, The following
individual ; and o-rgarni.zations were at work on the campaign:
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Roberto i orena
Agostinho de Oliveira
Francisco Trajano de Cli.veira(4)
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Yemando Ltth Lob,a Ctrneiro(4)
Ha .qua Miranda
Eduardo Pr.cdo Love()
Milton Jose Lobato (4.
.AiGedo Coutinhc
Mario D'abiso(6' r
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