ARREST OF COMMUNIST MILITANTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002700660007-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 18, 1999
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: April 28, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Chile DATE DISTR. 2,6 Mily 1949
SUBJECT Arrest of Cormmist Militants
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Source reports that the arrest of several militant Chilean Communists on
1.5 April at the home of Jacinto Carrasco, Calla Libertad 1160, San Bernardo,
war, the result of lack of precaution an their part,,* The police raided the
r--eting because they had observed such known militant Communists an Luis
Perez Retanales and Jose Fasten Carrasco entering the house4
2 So ..rce further reports that the Chilean Invostigacionee obtained no proof of
any conspiratorial activities on the part of those arrested, and ware forced
to release the ra jority of than. Nothing could be proved except that they
were holding an ordinary clandestine Communist r_eatingG.
;, 'lthourh newspaper accounts implicated forner I?iinistor of Agriculture I Ii jr ml
Cor;cha Quosada in an alleged plot, he was, apparently unatrare of the coati ngr,
an6 at the tine of the arrest of the Communists was in nantia ;o "ulase cluent1yy
Concha Quosada voluntarily presented himself to the authorities,, and was ur.7-
oor:.ditionally released after an interrogation,
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