ORGANIZATION OF THE M.U.D. YOUTH IN NORTHEN EXTREMADURA

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001000090004-1
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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 4, 1999
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: October 13, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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SUBJECT Organization of the M.U.D. Youth in
northern Extremadura
ORIGIN
DIST. October 1947
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1. As a result of numerous arrests in Western Portugal, the P.I.1) X. (secret
police) believe that they have a fairly accurate conception of the frame-
on which the M.U.D. Juvenil in that section of the country is built.
2, it the apex of the organizational pyramid is a regional committee known as
the Comisedo Regional Oeate *, which is composed of seven members, each
member representing the committee of a cocgll . Following is a list of
the members, together with the c ho which each one represents.
M Note: "Oeste" is here loosely used for that part of the province o.Z
Extremadura which-lies north of Lisbon
The terms denoting geographical divisions of Portugal are given in
their Portuguese form in this reports as the English equivalents do It
convey their exact meshing.
Portugal is composed of 11 provi,ncias (or re ides , 18 distritos.
272 cone hos and 3,795 re;uesjAs. The most nearly corresponding English
words would be "province", "region", "district", "council" and "parish",
The provi.ncia (or re i is not an administrative unit; it is a
loosely used inheritance from the days when Portugal was divided into
provinces; consequently, while people still speak of Alentejo and Ribatfjo,
and the boundaries are well enough defined, there is no governmental urdly
within theme Furthermore, sometimes the region and the province coincic=e,
but in other cases they do not; for instance, the "Re a Oeste" is one
a part of the provincia of Extremadura.
The largest actual administrative unit is the stri which is
always named after the largest city in the area. The di st t is divider.
into concelhos. The smallest unit is the fre a. Two cities, Lisbon
and Oporto have b rros ("wards"), Lisbon having four and Oporto two.
As an example of this administrative division, the SUstrito of
is in the n,Tovincia of Extremadura, has 17 ice one of which is tk
city of Lisbon with its four b r the ditakr t9. conprisee 165 freaue? ,.
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Jose Freitas Martins (thought by the police to be a communist)
-Leiria
Adelino Serrano--Alcobaca
Joaquim Augusto da Cruz Carreira--Marinha Grande
Valentim Varela Buga--Pombal
Armindo Serra a Silva--1dazare
Germano Ferreira tdeto---Caldas da Rainha
Joao Manuel Ferreira---Dombarral
Directly dependent on the Regional Committee is a propaganda section, which
was until recently made up of the Alcobaea member (Serrano) and an unnamed
member from l arinha Grande who died a few days before the police decided to
arrest him. Large quantities of propaganda materials were found in the homes
of both.
4. Also :subordinate to the Regional Committee is the Comissao Distrital for the
d..~.~s,?' of Leiria. It is composed of Martins and Serrano of the Regional
Comrd.ttee, together with Carlos Vicente Barros, a member of the Comissao
Concelhia for the concelho of : arinha Grande.
50 The various committees for the seven conce hos within the Regiao Oeste are
composed as follows:
Jose Freitas Zartins
Camilo Oliveira da Silva
Jose Fidalgo Marques Pereira
Alcobaca adelino Serrano
Jose Antonio borda de Oliveira
Antonio Jose Marques Moreira
Leonel de Jesus Afonso Belo
Jorge Albuquerque Furtado
Jose 'ntonio Crespo
Marinha Grande Jose Henriques Vareda
Joaquim Augusto da Cruz Carreira
Jose Antonio Marrages (thought by the
police to be a communist)
Elidio da Silva Carlos
Carlos Vicente Barros
Idaleto rrancisco
Ponibal Valentim Varela 1 uga
Raul Pereira Morgado
Feliciano Goncalves Samora
Fernando Paiva Parada
Armindo Serra e Silva
Mario Lourenco Simoes
Jose Maria Araaro batalha
Elpidio da Conceicao Borges
Maria da Silva Carvalho
Caldas da Rainha Germano Ferreira Neto
Francisco Manuel de Sousa Ladeira (resigned)
Maria Antonia Maldonado Freitas
Eombarral Joao Manuel Ferreira
Jose Vinagre Rodrigues
6. Of these seven committees, the most active are those for the consN os of
Alcobaca and Marinha Grande. In karinha Grande the membership is almost
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completely mad%, up of workers in glass and pottery, whereas in %lcobaca the
members are for the r.:ost part agricultural workers. the nlcobaca committee
has already set up committees for the following frejuesias:
Alpedriz
Pateias
Aljubarotta
Vestiaria
-aiorga
Capuchos
Coz
The Coniseso Regional Oeste of the ,..U .D . Juvenil is in close contact with
the committee of the adult L :.U .D . for the dish of Leiria (beaded by Dr.
Vasco da Gema Iernandes), and also with the Central Committee of the L.U.D.
in Lisbon.
8. The police recently broke up another committee which was closely linked '4th
the Regional Committee of the L:.U.L. Juvenil, namely the Caldas da Rainha
committee of the National Council of Portuguese '.omen. iLany records were
seized. The committee members were the following:
Ivone Laria da Conceicao Teles
Lavinia #arreto
Cle3nentina Uranco
!aria dos Anjos irunes Rosa
:aria Antonia L.aldonado Freitas
Natalia Correia Rodrigues Girao
Ermelinda de Jesus Santos
:::aria Alice Rosa
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