PARAGUAYAN COMMUNIST PARTY ACTIVITY

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 03013937
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: March 9, 2023
• Document Release Date: July 9, 2021
• Case Number: F-2020-01817
• Publication Date: December 29, 1952

Approved for Release: 2021/07/08 C03013937
FE 1952 �1-41"
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
CLASSIFICATION
COUNTRY Paraguay
CO ENTIAL
SECURITY INFORMATION
INFORMATION REPORT REPORT NO.
SUBJECT Paraguayan Communist Party Activity
DATE OF
INFO. October 1952
PLACE
ACQUIRED
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 793
AND 794, OF THE U.S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVE-
LATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS
PROHIBITED BY LAW. THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS PROM IHITED.
SOURCE
CD NO.
DATE DISTR.
NO. OF PAGES -.
NO. OF ENCLS.
(LISTED BELOW)
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
A recent directive was issued from the Paraguayan Communist Party
quarters in Encarnacion in the name of the PCP Central Committee,
directed principally to all PCP zone and group leaders.
(b)(1)
(b)(3)
2. The instruction warned Paraguayans that the country is in danger ol taken
-
taken over by a military dictatorship, It stated that while the Pe_
people are making demands for their liberation and for peace, the Impe
EMbassy in Asuncion and the pro-Fascist government of Peron are Th.-'er-Ine
in the internal polities of the country with the principai onjeotiNe
developing a military-civilian-Fascist conspiracy headed by the Merinie
Natalicistas-Estigarribistas. The paper stated that this conspira(1
support of' the Commander-in-Chief General Alfredo Stroessner.
3. Returning again to the American Embassy in Asuncion, the paper aeen
the Embassy is maneuvering with the Commander-in-Chief to bring absue
actionary solution to the political crisis and to assure the continnaeet
power of the criminal dictatorship which serves foreign pagers, A1er.tit
Colorados, the paper warned that the conspiracy within the principal
commands of the armed forces has for its purpose the re-institutior Cl
military-Fascist dictatorship in the country, Warning the Democraiie C�_
rados not to be taken by surprise, the paper stated that General VELLIL
agent of North American imperialism., is one of the leaders of the
and has received special training by the war technicians.A- upor
Democratic Colorados to denounce the recent appointment of General Herr:,
MORINIGO to a strategic post in the General Staff, the paper statee tnai LF
latter is also an agent of North American imperialism and was placed in
present positOn to paralyze the peoples fight for liberation from the c: e
dictatorship. This conspiratorial group, according to the parer, is ar
and its nucleus is General Stroessner. The group responds direetly tn
Moriniguista power and is instigated, supported, and financed by the Ame
dollar.
CLASSIFICATION C05,Det