COMMUNIST-DOMINATED TEATRO EXPERIMENTAL

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002700690005-6
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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 18, 1999
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: May 3, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPOR'T' NO.
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The Coraunist Party of Chile (PCCh) is placing special emphasis on the penes
tr ation of intellectual circles, and considers the influence of such men as
Coa nnist, poet Pablo 1 erud?a of vital importance
One of the major intellectual pups in uh.ich Communist influence is dominant
_ the Tea-bro l xperirentai of the University of Chile n This theater is a
cultural organization started by a Croup of people interested in the drama.
They formed an organization and elected a directive council. This council
consists of the following personas
ubatitute Directors Augustin `tree Cor nisi sympathizer
Counselor; Pedro Orthue, political affiliation Inxo rn
Treasurer and Administrators Domingo Piga, Connunist
IerrIbers: Ruben 0otoconil, Conmu^bist
Graciela Alvarez, GoL unist,, wife of rotoconil
Ruben ?>,ngulo, Communist
Jorge billo9 Commnunist sympathizer
Oscar Navarro, Communist sympathizer
The council's responsibilities fall in three principal categories: propaganda,
training, and finance.
rcap,rp The plays are chosen to present certain social problems in a
mer favorable to the Party,, This dita for spreading propaganda in im-
p ortent to the Party since it reaches a stratum of society which it could not
approach by other mans., It is considered that dramatic presentations permit
freedom to express ideas which could not be voiced through other channels
It also hopes to reach young people who could not be reached in regular political
campaigns,, The theater is being assisted at the present by persons of c alth,
education, and social standing, including the ?-sinister of Foreign Affairs,
German Rieseo0
Tx The Teatro Experimental maintains a school of actors,, decorators
and other theatrical off is ials .a The school operates in the University of Chile
and is used by the PCCh to train young people who later go to the provinces to
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Cu "r.ros Artisticos", art groups maintained by t1 'm ?unist P -rty in
of the industrial and mining centers. The school functions under the
:, ;-e pic os of the University and is r aintained by subsidies from the Teatro
+r .ntal~ the UTnitra:rc ity, and the Ministry of Education., The : istry
e7+.. t iorx authorizes Scholarships to pupils from the provinces, who a
:i s? uus h:r 1< he Cam fan'
st.=domir ted council of the I eater.
., The theater is financed principally by its box office roceipte,
ho,a Ya it receives some assistance from the University and the Ministry
dmission is from 20 to 100 pesos, and in 19/8, box office
eip 'thro numof.nmted to one million pesos., hose .funds are many d by ir3.m.i is ,
Domfngo Piga, a Cor')nrtruist,, nothing of last reacts one million pesos
a i. s in the treasury at present, and the activities of the theater a-re
?X'" carried on with 8050OO pesos received from the Mnistry of Education.
fr.nds appear to have been spent in salaries to `;h? artists, he majority
tx. r are U;r, i_sts, and to some. extent for decorations, rent is of far-
end roperties,, Source reported in addition that the Teatro E erl ~ <
w. s a hea Contributor to the funds for the Corgis t...,front Frente 11acional
=:t er d.i~;ca and the Committee of Solidarity. The r Fambe: of t} e council.
salaries from the Teatro E erinantal and are thereby enabled to
mth their entire ti exclusively to the Communist Par?,y. The Party benefits
zsj,ns these paid workers in various; other branches of the Party while their
Lee are paid by the theater.
'i'eatm lk rimantal is nom touring the pro rirgces, It has been in, Concepcion
ly. w h e r e it enjoyed mat ssuccesin In addition to present: ng its plays,
'9 "r 49~ r t of the theater assisted the Communist Party by carrnring propaganda
c .al and ctiff; se couriers to the r^eriar 1 directors of the Part in
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