INTER-AMERICAN PRESS CONFERENCE IN MONTEVIDEO

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009200390010-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 29, 1999
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: November 30, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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Prior to 20 October 1
At the sessions of La Oociedad Interamericana. do I'rensa (InterrAntoricart Society
of the 'Press) Conference in. Montevideo during the j)eriod 8x-12 October 1951,, a
con~3idesrable amount of anti-1S~ influence was demonstrated by a faction which
was led and tndoubtedly financed by the Argentine Gover menta The known
Corsanist delegates presented little opposition to the ?J,,S0 delegation, and the
pri-ncipa1 Communist effort was conducted by Genaro Carnero Checa, a Peruvian
Communist, who was not a delegate to the conference, but who was in constant
contact with the Argentine .group, which walked out of the session on 10 October,
2 Substantiating information that the Argentine Government had made previous
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25X1 X stating; that the four Cubans and one Ecuadorian who Joined the Argentine
groctp received all their expenses to the conference paid by .the Argentine
Government. The same source said that the only delegates to forward their
entry tees to New York by cable were the Cuban and Ecuadorian delegates.
All the Cuban delegates flew from Habana to New York City, then via FAMMAA, the
Argentine Government airline., to ruenos Airea. Source claimed as a further
indication that ' the delegates were financed by Peron is the fact that,
during a visit in Cuba before the conference, he had a long con.oeriof
with haul. ,Alfonso Gonse, Director of . Mamdcl of Haba xaa0 Gonse had Just
returned from Buenos Airesb where he had been the guest of the Argentine
Government, with all expenses raid. Gonse stated that Argentine press
officials pleaded with him to. return' to the press conference in Montevideo -
with the Argentine 4overninent again paying all expenses - so that they could
put an end ? to the domination of the Yankee journalists in Latin American
press meetings. The Cuban and Ecuadorian members of this Argentine-backed
group were:
Cuba: Alberto. Arredondo, L1 1.~ov Habana
Damon Co Benitez., Dim del. Comercio,, Habana
Isidoro Virgil to Merino, L Cam ana Cu~? .~, Habana
Alfonso Granmdosp Ti elm in Cuba,, Habana
Ecuador: Wilfredo Look Moreira,, H, 1 Ecua.t o, . Quito
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3, In addition to this dissident organizations Carnero theca persuaded a smal: 25X1X
grt,!2p r f journalists to issue a declaration calling for still another All -
al,in-American press meeting which would exclude U.S,, participants(,
25X1X this group would never be organized since Herbert i.oses, one
of the influential front mend stated t1,at,) after the declaration was _ ubli sheds,
hurt he had been "taken in" by Carnero Checa and that he was L,.oing everything
poosible to discredit Carnero Checa,, The signers of this declaration were:
Genaro Carnero Checa - Federacion de eriodi stas del j'erNx
Juan Emilio Pacull Circulo de eriodistas de Santiago de Chile
Dr? Herbert Moses Associacao Brasileira da I3uprensa
Ernesto Juan ronfrias - Asociacion de Periodi.stas de Puerto Rico
Carlos Martinez Moreno -. Asociacion de is. rrensa Uruguaya
40 Ca.,nex Checaa aside from organizing this group,, was extremely active in
ep ,eading anti-U,S,, propaganda among members of the Conference and newsmen
no- attending the meeting, A surveillance of Carnero Checa revealed that, he
did not contact local Communist leaders ri r any members of the soviet Embassy
in. Montevideo,,
5. Mir,Nel Otero Silva,, the Venezuelan Com ist,, attended all the sessions o'the
ce:lference and did not follow the example of the Argentina delegates. Otero
SiLva co;iducted himself with great, reserve at all official and unofficial
mnatings and is not known to have made any anti>. U0 . statements while the
co t`erence was in session. A surveillance of his activities has shown that
he was not contacted by any Communist leaders in Montevideo and that all of
his efforts were of a purely Journalistic nature? A record of his telephone
lan any hconnections
conversations from his hotel has failed to establish
t-0h iwith
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leaders of the Communist .arty of ruguay. intends to remain in Uruguay for a short period of time,, ostensibly to gather
ma:teral for his newspaper in Caracas,
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