PCCH POLITICAL ACTIVITY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009400030008-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 10, 2000
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: November 21, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

I I LLLOFAK 11
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
CLASSIFICATION CUF F'I1)11TIA.L 25X1 A
Approved For Release 2000/04/18 : CIA-RDP82-00457R009400030008-1
COUNTRY Chile
SUBJECT PCCh Political Activity
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25X1A
DATE DISTR. 21 November 1951
NO. OF PAGES 2
NO. OF ENCLS.
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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
1. On 27-28 October 1951 the Central Committee of the Co;r;niiist Party of Chile
(P'CCh) convened in the first general meeting of Chilean Communist leaders
in Santiago: since the Party wpm forced underground in 1943G* Those present.
included members of the Political Commdssion, acting and former Communist
Congressional representatives, former councilmen, regional and local Party
leaders,, and numerous labor leaders. The purpose of the meeting ws to study
and discuss the political situation and to authorize Vic, Political Corns::issi n
and PCCh Secretari?t to negotiFte a political pact with the Socialist Party of
Chile (Ps)
2. It t:%-:is Central Committee meeting it was decided to proclaim Allende as the
Communist presidential candidate, and PCCh leaders were authorized to work
out the details with Allende and Socialist lead rs.*
The Conurnmist leader, Humberto Abarca Cabrera, w!.s the chief opponent to the
pact with the Socialists, whom he qualified as "the worst enemy of the Conmru-
nist Party during the rxapression period and dedicated exclusively to the
persecution of the Communists". 1!.baroa also argued that the Communists should
try to come to an agreement with the Popular Socialist. Party (PSP) and support
the presidential candidacy of General Carlos Ibanez del Campo(
44 Volodia Teitelboirn and the PCCh Secretary General, Galo Gonzalez Diaz, were
reportedly in favor of a pact with the Socialists. These Communist leaders
argued that the agreement with the PS to support Allende is not to be considered
as a serious bid to win the election but rather as a means of preventing the
present governr ;ent and particularly the