VIEWS OF CARLOS CONTRERAS LABAROA ON FAILURE OF FRAS TO UNITE WITH THE FND

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002400330011-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 11, 1999
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: March 3, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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the FTMD, was not enert,,- enough and did not handle the problem e:re.i3..
Nothing eonereto was duelsn and there were no meting places set up in he
provincesg and ac - coimiittees of the FTtD ware ostablisbod.
a. The directors of Ft' ^.ll grata also to blem4 since they did not perceive tile-
advantages which union tr h the F would give them. Now the F will have
to fight alone, uit It c t;zv t count on more than 30,000 to 35,000 votes in
all of CWaa, because thO Director of the Electoral Register, Zerartu,
barred so rrieny C rniete .
The only dignified ocitu ve t3opin to the Fti ID will be to adopt the policy of abstention
from voting in the eiec;tionrs This will l indicate to t world t:se.t ':ire is a
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I's Carlos Contreras La : o i stu ;A,d to source that all efforts toward unity between
the Frente Tlnoional Dam= st U,:a (FIND) and the FPS had failed. He added that
there taas not sufficient t1* to rally the anti-government parties into a
coa on front,
2. He made the following as n ; to source on the cause of this failure and the
course of action that the :TAD is ezp etod to follow in view of the col ap:e of
negotiations:
as This has been the most p*rapitious moment for the forinaticr of a ;:united
front; of the pE)oplo ,and omen s:nti'.Contuniats are against Gorzaless
Videla. There it disoontcexit even in the Carabineros and in the A Mr. The
Communist Party did not, c}a Atali2e on the discontent because there wa.a to
much sectarianis ; from t*;r begin-&Z. It was already too late wlion the
Party began searching shot allies, and even the possible allies had received
bad treatment fr'c the 0$,nunists.
b. Humberto Abarea, wha was r;i.ven .7 he tack of uniting various partic,,- dthin
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