PRESENT ATTITUDE OF COMMUNIST LEADERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001000740005-8
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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 12, 1999
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: October 1, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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1. Ricardo Fonseca, Secretary General of the Go uniet Party- of Chiles has
reportedly- been relegated to a secondary position in the active direction of
Comrunist affairs.. Gabo Gonzalez, Chief of Discipline and Control, has
ac fined temporary cam-and of Com -unist activities. During what the Comn ists
considered to be a crisis, Gonzalez has been bending every effort to prevent
the Co swiiet Party from being declared illegal in Chile.
2. Carlos Rosales, Con iux ist Party leader, has ben in convorsati r n with numerous
senators and congressmen. He has even approached legislators affiliated with
political parties of the Right, seeking all possible assistance in preventing
the Government from declexing the Communist Party illegal.. He tries to con--
vi..mce those whom he approaches that any declaration of illegal i ty of the
Coraunist Party would be tantamount to the end of traditional democracy in
Chile 4.
3. Cesar Godoy Ur rutia, a leader of the Communist Part, has e pr(
ssod great
concern to his friends and confidants over the possibility of repression of the
Ct : munist Party in Chile.
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e have not provoked this strike.. The coal strike is purely economic
The workers are fighting because they cannot live on 30 pesos a days No,
as Communists and as members of a party of the workers, are obliged to
support the laborers in their petitions? Cur union leaders are under
obligation to fight for better conditions. They were elected to their
posts of leadership In order to accomplish such goals. The economic
situation which brought on the coal strike will naturally be utilized by
the Communist Party. The Par?l.:j will coordinate all that it has, learned
from many years of fighting in order to gain for the workers that which
they desire. Our leaders are not very intellectual,. They do not have
university degrees, but they have learned through years of fighting how to
gain a friw more centavos.. As Comunists, we cannot retreat now. We must
stand firm. In any event, we must not lose what we have gained. If we
lose now, they will persecute us.. It seems that they will -:oven kill w
rather than either 3=_)rove the conditions of the. coal wworrkE who have
been dying of hunger, or char,-e the deplorable conditions of the farm hands.
Persecutions will only make us3 fight harder at the present l m
Cornalim then criticized President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla a. nd described him as
being ffcomplet ~i sdt`?mr.9 ~ ~d and confused.t
Luis Corvalan, editor of the Communist newspaper Q &' , stated the following
In direct personal conversation:
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