ALLEGED SABOTAGE OF RADIO NUEVO MUNDO

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002400610001-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 25, 1999
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: March 10, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUBJECT Alleged Sabotage of Radio I u vo tftmdo NO. OF PAGES 1
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1., Chilean Investigaeionea ae3de a technical examination of the fuses on the bombs
which had been di3oovered at La Radio Nuevo undo on 30 January 1949, and (same
to the conclusion that the incident did not reveal a Cor>:almist-inspired attempt
at sabotage. The police therefore advised the newspaper La inion to refrain
from eat sensational stories that a plan of Comunist terrorism was under
way.*
2. The radio station and , ,(om belong to Juan Bautista Rossetti, Socialist
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deputy, .source believes that the incident of the alleged attempt at sabotage
was invented by members of the 1ociml.iet Party to arouse anti-Communist senti-
mente and to attract more persons to. the public meetings held by Rossetti and
Bernardo Ibanez, who are 5ocial3st candidates in the 6 March elections.,**
lit. ,r_0121= oE carried a sensational story on 31 January 1949 cover-
ing an alleged attempt of the Communist Party to blow up the radio station, La
Radio Nuevo Ilundo. It 7zC0 AJV on Sunday morning,, 30 January, a laborer of this
radio station found two bombs, one at the transmission station and one at the base
of the antennae. The police were notified and .Ot,iaiwn denounced the attempt
as a plan of Communist terrorist. The paper took advantage of this opportunity to
point out the goverment's error in suspending its Extraordinary powers, and stated
that henceforth the country would be at the mercy of the Communists. Several news-
papers followed La 0~a lead the following day.
Co a t, There were only 250 persons in attendance at the Act of Proclamation
of Ibanez and Rossetti, and on 3 February, Ibanez had to cancel a meeting in the
Casa del Pueblo because of lack of an audience. Only a dozen people came to hear
Ibanez tell of his recent trip to Europe.
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