CHILEAN DELEGATES TO CONFERENCIA INTERNACIONAL DE DEFENSA DE LA INFANCIA IN VIENNA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R014300020009-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 21, 2002
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: October 11, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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INFORMATION REPORT REPORT NO
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COUNTRY Chile
SUBJECT Chilean Delegates to Conferenoia Internaoional
do Defensa do la Infanoia in Vienna
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oug Raquel Gonzalez, Luz Fernandez, and Irma Sierralta, members of
the Chilean delegation to the Conferencia Internacional de Defensa do
la Infancia recently held in 'Vienna, Austria, are not first-line Party
fig res, they are all members of the Communist Party of Chile (PCCh),
2. Raquel Gonzalez, a Santiago midwife and aide to Dre Hernan Sanhueza,
director of the maternity ward at the Barros Luco Hospital, went to the
Conference as, a representative of local Communist midwives, nurses, and
other hospital personnel, The Communist personnel of the hospital
financed 30% of her expenses, and Gonzalez herself paid the remaining
70%. Gonzalez is a director of the Centro Femenino Cornelia Olivares,
in Santiago., reportedly a Communist controlled organization,
3, Luz Fernandez, a Santiago schoolteacher, also paid most of her own
expenses as far as Vienna. After arrival in Vienna, everything was
gratis for the delegates,
4. The expenses of Irma Sierralta, a Santiago social worker and member of
the pro-peace movement, were paid by her well-to-coo family. She is a
former member of the now defunct Chilean-Soviet Cultural Institute,
5. The trip of the delegates to the Conference is of little significance,
so far as the PCCh is concerned, other than that it apparently offered
three more of its members the opportunity to visit the USSR and its
satellites ,l The local Communist press, following an-early build-up of
the Vienna Conference, has since abstained from publicizing the Confer-
ence. The article inetic,de jjjjMA represents the only
known post-conference publicity in 'G"hile.
6. Chief members of the Chilean delegation are believed to have been Mireya
-Laf`uente and Nelly Villanueva, Chilean Communist feminine leaders,
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Democracia, PCCh publication, reported both as " possible,delegates in pre
donference publicity. Both have recently returned to Chile from extensive
European trips. While in Europe, they participated in various other inter-
national Communist meetings.
Comment. On 25 August 1952, Las Noticias a Ultimd Bog, anti-
US leftist newspaper, carried an article regarding the participation
of a Chilean delegation at the Conference in Vienna. All three indi-
viduals gave enthusiastic interviews in behalf of the USSR and the
popular democracies, apparently having traveled extensively in. the
area. They qualified what they saw as a "curtain of flowers rather
than iron." Throughout the interview they insisted that they were
neither Communists nor converted sympathizers as a result of this
trip but rather were extolling the virtues of the Communist countries
as unbiased observers.
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