PROPOSED PURGES WITHIN THE CHILEAN COMMUNIST PARTY

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002600660009-6
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 25, 1999
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: April 28, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Chile
CONFIDENTIAL
,SUBJECT Proposed Purges Within the Chilean Communist Party
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L. The Communist Party of Chile (PCCh) is in the process of removing some of its
leaders from their positions. Humberto Abarca and Luis Valenzuela Valenzuela
ara particularly under fire.for alleged errors committed in guiding the Party
during the recent electoral campaign. Abarca will not only be removed from
.hi3 Host in the General Secretariat but also from the Political Commission,
Vale~nzuela has also been held particularly responsible for the Communist
failure at the polls. It was he who appeared. as the strong man of the Communist
Pa.t'ty during the election period,, and he held the following positions in the
. a:r?ty: Member of the Executive Secretariat; member of the Political Commission
in charge of Administration and Finance,, and now also in charge of Pariamentary
affairs; and Secretary of the Santiago Regional Committee. His administrative
duties in the Political Commission consisted in the supervision of all Communists
employed as public officials. This work has been reduced in quantity recently,
because there were only a few Communists left in public office. In financial
affairs, his duties were to supervise the PCCh treasury. As a parliamentarian,
he is in charge of Communist activities in the national congress, and is
as;3isted by Guillermo Guevara. His term in Congress-expires in May 1949, and
until that time he is expected to continue in charge of Parliamentary affairs.
Valenzuela replaced Abarca in Parliamentary affairs, and Pascual Barraza as
Secretary of the Santiago Regional Committee.
2. It is believed that the Party may keep Galo Gonzalez in the Commission of
Control, and Luis lieinoso in the Commission of Organization. However, Party
cr:Lticism extends to these two leaders,, It is felt that as experienced men
in the Communist Party directorate, they should have exercised supervision
over .Aberca and Valenzuela and should have called them to task for their
tmntinual mistakes during the pre-election period.
3? On the other hand, there is a faction in the Party which wishes to maintain
the directorate as it is and accentuate the "Bolshevik tendency" of the Party,
Th;_s group wishes to take a larger number of workers into the directorate,
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i -;cussed again. It is believed ',hat there will be ;,.:) expulsions from
=rlc ~ Party but rather re eases frail directive positirmso
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