VIOLENCE BETWEEN PERSONNEL OF LA PRENSA AND THE CGT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007300420004-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 2, 2000
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: April 20, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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On the morning of 27 February 1951 personnel of I& ED= voted to have
their paper reappear in Buenos Aires, and for that reason they elected to
return to their work despite opposition from elements of the Confederation
General del Trabajo (CGT). Two reasons for their decision to return to
work were: (1) to force the government to take some action in their favor,
and (2) to prove to the government and the general public that the personnel
..We,. , were not on strike.
2. employees, both plant and office workers' began to gather at noon
on 27 February, The CGT, having been advised meanwhile of the gathering,
sent eight maw (killers) to break up the crowd.* CGT officials were of
the opinion that the workers would disperse, but when they shoved ' Ulingness
to leave and otherwise displayed their displeasure the matones opened[ fire.
A well-informed police officiaal told source that two persons were killed and
six injured during the violence.*'* Only one member of the CGT, apparently
a leader, was injured. Hs fired eight shots, inflicting serious injury on
the workers. The latter retaliated by beating him severely. It was then that
the police intervened.*** The violence took place at about 2,455p.m. in front
of the shops of fie?, located at Asopardo and Chile streets,
3. Reports of the incident which have appeared in Buenos Aires papers were "cooked
up" at the Sub-secretariat of Information and Press following orders given
by T'ajor Carlos Al sq a Casa Rosada official. According to sot ce, articles
declaring that the shooting was done by the newspaper workers are false.
4. Officials in the Casa Fr.sada are annoyed at the CGT because of the shooting.
Although the officials ;ranted the crowd broken up they did not countenance
the shooting. They believed that the incident would bring criticism from
all over the world.
5. Raul Apold, head of the Sub-secretariat of Information and Press, has been
ordered to play up in all newspapers and radios the "criminal action" of the
I&IrmeM , According to an official-of the Sub-secretariat, the order came
from 2 . jor (rlos Aloe,
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2ff i r,, a certain Roberto Nunez, was killed,
* -Q in a Had it not been for police intervention the COT man
would have been beaten to deaths
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