REPORTED ARGENTINE PARTICIPATION IN RECENT CHILEAN POLITICAL UNREST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002100280005-7
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• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 26, 2000
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: November 29, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2000/06/26 CIA-RDP82-00457R0021002800
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VENTRAL INT LIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
COUNTRY Chile/Argentinw
SUBJECT Reported Argentine Participation in Recent
Chilean Political Unrest
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1. It has been reported to the official investigators of the recent political
crisis in Chile that Roberto Tixa :Massa, Argentine Consul General in Chiles
and Luis G. Cervino, former Argentine Consul in Concepcion, have repeatedly
urged Army and Carabinero officers to supplant Gonzalez Videla with a
Chilean Peron. The accusation against Cervino was made by Colonel Manuel
Alvear, Commandant of the Carabineros in the Concepcion zone. The Chilean
Government is said to be attempting discreetly to appriAe the rrgentine
Ambassador of this situation so that the latter will arrange the recall of
Tixa and Cervino, thus obviating the necessity of an official Chilean request.
2. Argentine Senator Alberto Durand conveyed a confidential message to Gonzalez
Videla on 18 November from Peron, who offered assurances that he had had no
part in the revolutionary plot in Chile. The President was reported to be
cool, but pleased with Peron',, protestations of innocence.
3. The police have questioned Ernesto Barros Darpa,.forner Chilean Foreign
Minister and officer of (lotion Chileno Argentina,, regarding the financial
records and the membership lists of this organization. He maintained that
no records existed and that funds-were obtained through voluntary contribu-
tions. He claimed that this organization existed only to support the
Argentine-Chilean trade treaty, and would probably dissolve since the possi-
bility of the adoption of the treaty now seems n, 'zible, An examination
of Barros Darpa's bank account was negative Comment. Although the
Government strongly suspects Argentine implication in the recent revolutionary
plot, it seems to have obtained no concrete evidence.
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