STUDENT OPPOSITION TO DISMISSAL OF COMMUNIST PROFESSORS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00415R006000080007-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 15, 2002
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: August 24, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

5RM NC
51.61
MAY 1949
COUNTRY Panama
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CLASSIFICATION CON'F'IDENTIAL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
DATE DISTR. 24 August 1950
SUBJECT Student Opposition to Dismissal of
Communist Professors
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1. A new group is reportedly being formed among certain labor syndicates and in
the National University, to fight the removal of professors or teachers
because of their political ideology, and to oppose any change in the
autonomous status of the University. The students of the National Institute
and the University have been organized and are in a state of alert to enforce
these aims. The instigators of this movement are the Communist professors,
the leaders of the Brenta Patriotico, and various political leaders now
in disfavor, according to source. Members of this group are to have special
cedulas which are being prepared by Carlos CajaJ., Partido del Pueblo (PdP)
member and lawyer, who has been handling many of the legal problems for the
Federacion Sindical de Trabajadores de la Republica de Panama (PSTRP) and the
PdP.
2. Many Communist youths have infiltrated the University and are members of this
group, including Carlos Rodriguez, who has replaced Xenia Monino as PdP
treasurer. This group is to dedicate itself to working on behalf of the
"people", to attracting followers to the Communist doctrine, to opposing
government action under the anti-Communist decree against the masses, and
in general to create problems for the present government. Carlos Cajal
allegedly stated that if the leaders in this movement worked fast enough
and supported the cause of the workers, they would attract the intellectuals
and students necessary to form a real Communist party, and not a small
ineffectual half-hearted one like the PdP. Cajal added that a night school
to teach Marxist principles would soon be inaugurated.
3. On 26 July 1950 it was reported that the student group in the University
had not yet been able to come to any real agreement concerning its status
and the actual aims to be accomplished. Because of the current international
and local situation and the public attitude toward Communism, many of the
individuals involved in this movement fear that a firm ideological stand
at this time and a dedication to such a campaign will have dangerous con-
sequences for themselves.
4. Source believes that the moment the government begins ~ft d
fessors accused of being involved in Communist activStiee, a serf
the pro-
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strikes and riots headed by the students and the geivernaiat oppgsii
be set off, Among the teachers detained or scheduleto be d;ei^ain
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questioning are Felicia Santizo de Garcia, PdP leader in CQlon'and a
at Abel Bravo School; Natividad Carceno, PdP member and teacher at
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de Senoritas; Columbia Villarreal de Mendoza, PdP member; Hugo Victor, PdP
Secretary of Propaganda and professor at the National Institute; Cesar
de Leon, PdP member and professor at the National University; and Vicente
Bayard, Director of the Santiago Normal School.
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