XAVIER GUERRERO SAUCEDO, MEXICAN PAINTER, AND HIS WIFE, CLARA PORSET DE GUERRERO, BOTH COMMUNISTS

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• Publication Date: January 17, 1957

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INFO-RMATION 'EPORT INFORTION REPORT 1
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SUBJECT Xavier GUERRERO Sauced�, Mexican ''DATE DISTR. 17 January 1957
Painter, and His Wife, Clara Porset
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Xavier GUERRERO Saucedo, well-known Mexican painter, and his wife, Clara Porset de
GUER.RERO, interior decorator and furniture designer, are active Communists and
contacts of an intelligence officer of the Soifiet Embassy in Mexico City. Following
is information concerning their contacts, activities, and affiliations from January
to August 1956.
1. Contacts with Soviet/Satellite Diplomatic Installations'
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Soviet Embassy
The GUERREROs were in frequent touch with Yuri Paporov, Cultural Attache
an'd intelligence officer of the Soviet Embassy. They were on harid at the
airport with Soviet Emtiassy personnel to meet delegates from he Soviet
Union who came to present the Stalin Peace Prize to Lazar� CARDENAS in
February 1956. On one occasion GUERRERO was in touch with Mikhail Cherkasov,
Counselor.
b. Czech Legation
In January Clara Porset de GUERRERO attended a tea at the Legation in honor
of Yekaterina Ivanovna Kulazhenkova, wife of the Soviet Ambassador. Both
the GUERREROs were in contact with the Legation in January 1956 in connectio
with the Mexican art exhibit to be held in Prague. GUERRERO was in touch
with the Legation in February also.
2. Activities and Affiliations
a. Partido Comunista Mexican� (PCM)
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Very active in the PCM during the period, GUERRERO was in touch with members
of the Party's Central gommittee as well as other members,Jact.ive.in Communist
front organizationsturo;ORONA, a member of the Cent�r#,1:ciiefee and
the Coahuila State COmmtee, went to Mexico City on 28 JM.-1956 and was
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b. Sociedad Mexicana de Amistad con China Popular (SMACP)
GUERRERO was active in the SMACP, particularly during the latter part of
the period.3 He arranged to have Dr. Jose GITIAL, Spanish Communist leader
and former minister in the Spanish Republican Government, lecture at one
of the SMACP weekly meetings. GIRAL returned from China in February 1956.
Clara Porset de GUERRERO seemed to be more interested in the SMACP than in
any of the other front organizations.
c. Frente Nacional de Artes Plasticas (FNAP)
GUERRERO was active in connection with the award of the Stalin Peace Prize
to Lazaro CARDENAS in February and the Mexican art exhibit to be held in
Prague. Through the PAP'- both the GUERREROs particiWed in the welcome
of Diego RIVERA upon his return from the Soviet Union." Roberto BERDECIO,
Bolivian Communist, was in touch with GUERRERO on several occasions con-
cerning FNAP matters. The GUERREROs were commissioned to paint and decorate
the FNAP's new quarters, at Calle Londres 87.
d. Circulo de Estudios Mexicanos (CEM)
GUERRERO was active in the CEM.
e. Movimiento Mexicano por la Paz (MM?)
Much of the GUERREROs' MMP activity concerned the Stalin Peace Prize ceremony.
Clara Porset de GUERRERO met with Dr. Guillermo MONTANO Islas on several
occasions concerning a bulletin published by the MO. 7 The MMP was almost
at the point of collapse, and MONTANO told Clara that they were wasting their
time publishing the bulletin.
3. Miscellaneous Activities
a. GUERRERO spent some time during February trying to arrange the release from
prison8of thirteen persons who were arrested outside PCM headquarters that
month.
b. The GUERREROs participated in an attempt to secure the entry into Mexico
of Nicolnp/GUILLEN Batista.9
I. Other Contacts
Lazaro PENA, Cuban Communist leader
Manuel MESA Andraca, Communist economist and contact of the Soviet Embassy;
Chief of Agrarian Investigation in the Department of Statistics of the
Ministry of Economy
Teresa PROENZA, Communist who works for Diego RIVERA.
'Angel BASSOI51�.
Jose MORERA, Cuban Communistll
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Comments.
The The GUERREROs' home, Parque Melchor Ocampo 38, Apt. 2, Mexico, D.F., is a
visiting place for certain Communists from the United States and Canada when
they are in Mexico. The GUERREROs are also in touch with leading American
Communists living in Mexico; with Venezuelan Communists, including Eduardo
and Gustavo MACHADO Morales; and vdith Spanish Communists in Mexico, including
Wenceslao ROCES, a member of the Central Committee of the Partido Comunista
de Espana.
1. Although no contact with the Polish Legation is included, the GUERREROs
have been in touch with it in the past.
2. GUERRERO holds no official position in the Party. He is, however, a
member of the board of trustees of La Voz de Mexico, the Party's official
newspaper
3. GUERRERO is president of the SMACP, an organization composed of approx-
imately fifty people, all members or sympathizers of the PCM. Clara
Porset de GUERRERO is also on the SMACP's directive body
4. He is secretary of public relations of the FNAP. The FNAP's membership
is about one hundred.
5. RIVERA returned to Mexico on 4 April 1956. He had left for Mosoow in
August 1955 to undergo treatment for cancer..
6. The PCM controls this organization through Dr. Pnrique CABRERA, secretary-
general of the Movimiento Mexican� por la Paz (MMP). The CEM maintains
close contact with the Institut� de Intercambio Cultural Mexicano-Ruso
(TTrmR)
7. MONTANO is MMP secretary of propaganda. Clara Porset de GUERRERO is a
member of the national council of the MMP and the editorial council of
Paz, the MMP's monthly magazine
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9. GUILLEN, a member of the World Peace Council, is a Cuban Communist ipoet
who lives in Paris. In October 1956, after the Mexican Consulate had
given him a visa and subsequently cancelled it, he asked his friends in
Mexico to discontinue their efforts in his behalf, saying that he planned
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10. A later report lists GUERRERO among.. the .Contao-tu-o-f----
Angel BASSOLSL-fatherly Narciso-BASSOIS-Ierdo-Ae-Tejada,-former_Mexican.____
Ambassador to the Soviet Union. The elder Rr,SS0LS is a clandestine contact
of',the-Soviet Embassy in Mexico.
11. An official of the Confederacion de Trabajadores de la America Latina
(CTAL).
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