ANTI - US ATTACK MOUNTED BY SOVIETS THROUGH C PS IN LATIN AMERICA

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-00915R001000120003-4
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• Document Release Date: September 23, 1998
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ANTI - US ATTACK MOUNTED BY SOVIETS THROUGH CPS IN LATIN AMERICA
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report that, in order to explcit anti-US sentiment in Latin America to a
maximum degree, the Soviets have taken the following action:
A. Developed a hemispheric coordination p#i mechkniw involving
all the CPs from Canada to Argentina. "Northern Zone" includes Caribbean
area and North America; headquarters in Mexico City. Co-chairm n: CP
Mexico and CP Cuba. "Southern Zone" includes `South America., except
Venezuela; headquarters in Buenos Aires. CPs of Argentina and Brazil have
been co-chairmen in the past. Bilateral relations among CPs in this hemisphere
increased notably in 1958.
B. Continued to train j / U current and future Latin American
Communists leaders in the USSR. CP China also stepped up its training of
Latin American Communists.
C. Urged all outlawed CPs to emerge from underground condition4'and
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Venezuela, Chile, and Cuba improved their position in this regard, 195$ 1959.
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D. Urged Latin American CPs to build] "peace" campaign% in order
to undermine relations of Latin American countries with the "imperialist"
"war-mongering" USJ
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E. Continued to receive LA CP representatives in Moscow for reports
and consultations on specific problems and developments.
F. Continued to maintain direct contact With LA through visits
of Soviet (and Chinese) representatives and delegations.
G. Devoted special attention to improvement/ of Communist position
in the A%i trade union movement in LA.
H. Increaser/international and national Communist front efforts to
infiltrate, influence and exploit the political elite, youth, students and journalists,
in order to draw LA away from friendship with the US.
2. The 1958 action-program for LA was worked out in Moscow in a regional
conference of LA CPs in November 1957. Sensitive sources currently report
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that another special conference of LA CPs will be held in Moscow on the
occasion of the 21st Congress of CPSU which opens later this month. Agenda
for this regional meeting include:
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A. One LA Country is to be selected as the Ua;Ft for the'cleus"
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of the Communist "counter-attack" against . anticipated strong,, anti-
Communist policy of the US in LA in 1959.
B. A program to dissolve the Confederation of Workers of Latin
America (CTAL), regional liaison bureau of the International Communist
Front, W@44qooe Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU), and to replace it
by a completely new organization, is to be discussed.
G. The methods by which LA CPs can be aided financially or
provided with needed material are to be discussed,
3. All LA Communist Party delegates to the above mentioned
conference in Moscow are required to bring reports , us s concerning:
A. Political affairs
B. Labor and farm affairs
C. StatusJof the Communist Party.
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