CONFERENCE ON LATIN AMERICA ARRANGED BY COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE SOVIET UNION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-00915R000800230034-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 5, 2000
• Sequence Number: 34
• Publication Date: March 6, 1958
• Content Type: REGULATION

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The PAO will rece'v shor $,pecial paper in Spanish concern-
ing a non erence of Latin American communist leaders which was held in
Moscow at the 140th Anniversary Celebration of the October Revolution.
The paper also gives an assessment of international communiengs current
objectives and tactics. The PAO is being instructed to coordinate the
dissemination of this material with an officer in the Embassy respon.
sible for the exchange of information on communist activities under
Resolution 93 of the Caracas Conference.
It is left to the Enbassyos discretion as to the manner in which
this material can be most effectively distributed. Conceivably there
might be some merit in making it available to the designated liaison
officer of the host government prior to its publication in the local
press,
The Communist Party of the Soviet Union arranged for this meetj.ng
of Latin American leaders and delegates from Guatemala,, Mban Chile,
Uruguayg Argentina and Brazil were among those making speeches. The
Soviet spokesman criticized the Latin Americans for a lack of solidar-
ity among the communist parties and stated that a series of inter
American Communist Par .y meetings should be held to strengthen the
communist movement in Latin America and to mobilize Latin Ame can
opinion against "American imperialism,?
The missions may be able to use the information on the confers
in connection with reports from several of the countries coz- g.
the letter which Vicente Lombardo Toledano is alleged to hare.aent to
CTAL affiliates throughout the hemisphere. it will be reca3led that
Lombardo s letter requests certain information on military and .other
strategic installations in preparatii *for?a concerted communist
campaign throughout Latin America in 1958." The fact that the Lati*.
American delegates to the Moscow celebration were called together and
that they were exhorted to "mobilize Latin Americana against Americas
imperialismr" seems particularly significant in the light of the Lombsz'd
letter and the recent increased activities in all fields by the Soviet
bloc countries and their (-ourt'.anist affiliates, WLLES
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