FORMATION OF SALVADORAN POLITICAL FRONT

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002500150005-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 3, 2000
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: March 22, 1946
• Content Type: REPORT

The instigators of the movement were Cuellar Quintanilla, Reyes and Julio
Fausto Fernandez,.
COUNTRY El Salvador
SUBJECT Formation of Salvadoran Political Front
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1. At two meetings held on 10 and 11 February 1949 at the house of Bernardo
Antonio heyes in San Salvador, a political "front" favorable to the Army
was organs th a possible view to formation of a political party at a
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2. The following persons attended these meetinge:
Dr. Bernardo Antonio Reyes
Julio Cesar Escobar
Dr. Emilio Gamo Prieto
Horacio Larios Fuentes
Dr. Abdon Martinez
Dr. Pedro Atilio Bonilla
Dr. Carlos F. Reyes
Dr. Jose Erasmo Pacheco
Dr. Arturo AcevedoJr.
Joaquin Melendes
Dr. Jorge A. Carranza Amaya
Miguel A. Gonzalez
Dr. Julio Fausto Fernandez
Gustavo Acevedo
Dr. Bernardino Cuellar Quintanilla
Dr. Jose Parade Montoya
Dr. Jose Ignacio Paniagua
Dr, Jose Maria Fiance
Ricardo Gamero
Ismael Zaldana
Guillermo Flores Pino
Dr. Pedro Jose Rosales
Dr. Francisco Enrique Nuila Villalta
Ir. Alfonso Fagoaga
Dr. Roberto Masferrer
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3. A council of five were appointed, with the following specific duties:
Finances Maaferrer
Propaganda Cuellar
Intelligence Gamero
Policy Fernandez and Rosales
4,, Dues were set at $10000 monthly and were collected from all members present.
Fernandez then brought up the matter of the nature roposed political
party, whose Chief would be Jose Arturo Castellanos
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6 Several members of the "front" argued strongly that the struggle against the
cabinet should not await the organization of the party and that a strong
attack should be prepared against Tr. Carlos Ilerena, Rector of the University,
Felix Olivella, civilian financier of the revolution, and Dr, Miguel Rafael
Urquia, Minister of Foreign Relations. It was suggested that since all
these persons are of foreign birth (Lierena is a Oaetemalan, Olivelltt a
Spaniard, Urquia a Honduran), they should be attacked as unfit to hold office
or to interfere in any way in the politics of El Salvador.
ommant. It is not known what, if any, connection the above-mentioned
par y may have with the coalition of two parties to favor Major Osorio which
is described
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-- nt. On 22 February, Julio Feusto Fernandez departed El Salvador
for Montevideo, Uruguay, via Son Jose, Costa Rica, on TACA flight #203. His
appointment as Consul General of El Salvador was confirmed in the Diario Oficial.
Through government friends Fernandes had tried to decline the appointment
since 2 February when he was first nominated, because, as he told a friend, he
felt called upon to continue the Salvadoran fight against what he termed "La
Vacs del Hipotecario", a group of power-hungry bueinessm?n. He stated that he
had offered his cooperation to the Osorio government, and the Consul generalship
in Uruguay was the task they had given himo
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