ACTIVITIES OF DIOGENES DE LA ROSA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R006000280001-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 6, 2000
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: October 18, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY El Sal Odor/Panzar
SUBJECT
PLACE
ACQUIRED
INFO.
CONFIDENTIAL
Activities of Diogenes do la Rosa
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l. Diogenes do la Rosa, prominent Panamanian Communist, returned to Panama
from Salvador by air on the morning of 19 Scpter, ber 19-50. He had in-
tended going to Guatemla after completing his mission in i Salvador,
but the "press of business" in Panama, according tc de la Rosa, necessi-
tated his iinmediate return to that country,
2 ,During de la Rota a s one reek stay in San Salvador, 13s rain efforts were
turned toward the establishrnent of a newspaper unio:, embracing workers in
that field in all of Central Americas, 17th Guatema) an newspaperman
Eliseo r'artinez Zelada, de !a :iosa made tentative plans for a Fathering
to be held in Guatemala under the banner of an orga.t ization to be known
as the Confederacion Centroam ricana de Trabajadore, do Pren a (Co ).
In the ranks of Salvadoran newspapermen, do la, Rosy was given substantial
support for an affiliate in E Sal?rado:r, and plan,: ;,,ore drawn up under hi s
guidance for a Sindicato de Trabajadores de Prensa do ;l Salvador.,
3, De la Rosa conferred with Humberto Romero Alberquc, a suspected Salvadoran
Communist who held the position of Sub,-Secretary c l Labor in the Council
of Revolutionary Governments According to source, de la Rosa and Romero
have been friends since the former acted as an advf t'or on labor legisla-
tion to the Salvadoran governrent in the summer of 1949?
: ith regard to the nolitical situation in Panama, do la Rosa predicted
that a leftist inspired move against President Arnu7.:_ r, Arias was a possi-
bility in the near future. He stated that preparatio t,, were being made
for such an attempt, and that planning up to this mormcrt had been con"
fined tc: the inland sections of Panama with little app t ont activity in
the more populous Canal Zone area,
This document Is hereby regraded to
CONFIDENTIAL in accordance with the
letter of 16 October 1978 from the
Director of Central Intelligence to the
Archivist of the United States.
Next Review Date: 2008
CONFIDENTIAL
Approved For Release 2000/05/18 : CIA-RDP82-00457R006000280001-8