PRESTES TO TRIAL OR BECAUSE THE VARIOUS NATIONAL AD-

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00965R000200080001-0
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 6, 2001
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: May 1, 1958
• Content Type: OPEN

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1'r cu~.tes to trial or because the various national ad-
,c:i[list rations since 1950 have felt that it would
ha vv been politically unprofitable to do s o. There
rc It few instances during the past few years in
winch 1'restes was reliabl?v reported to have been in
Ilici do Janeiro, but all efforts to find him by Bra-
c;lt.cn police proved fruitless.
I'r >?Ies' late wife reportedly worked for the Gov-
cr: et of the U.S.S.R. in Berlin from 1926 to
.aid was said to have been later deported
ur: 1),11i France and Belgium, possibly for Coin-
;r rretrvtties. She was born in Munich in 1903
a eolithe-class fancily. Prestes' daughter,
A, ?I., I.cecadia. was born in about 1936 in the
n,1) uck concentration ramp where her
t11(11' (lied. Pi'e.st.ers is a slight, small scan (5';
~hrnr; about 135 pounds) of gautct appearance,
,r: I tint. long been believed to be tubercular. His
:!ul of activities since his reappearance, how-
-c , ',voold scent to dispel the rumor that he may
in h;td health. His n-aior writings include a
of the Spanish Woman Communist,
),stores lbarruri, and !'r?ohlcma.e Atuai.c da Do-
er?rrr (Pre setit Problems of I)ctnocracy) Ile
`rpanish and, at ()tit, time at least, spoke
'lair
W':11)1tof;, Jtinio (In Silva.
Janio Qnaciro,:, a controver-
sial ?11 very old lawyer who
has had a meteoric political
ri c, has been (governor of
the State oI giro Paulo since
January 1955 and is tree of
the stronl;r St potential can-
didates for till, Presideru'v of
lira7il in t Il(' ( lest ion of 1960.
?A political newcomer whose
career be'}r?an in 1,947 with his
election to the municipal
courted of the city of Siiu
I' rH a a mere 1,71)7 voles, Qua(Iros, who has won
tr (leetcons in which he has been a candidate,
ro !ho rmernorship of llrirzil's richest, most
tl'r1 and roost productive state in a scant
r .trs. Quariru.~' ri.,e ha" be en 1111 tlic more
IM' 1? cause lit has arc o:npli, ivd it. in large
it pout appreciable of ganiscd political sup-
I!, aell in the, face or concidcrahlc opposition.
r.?! of expires in Jtanu:tr'v 1959, and he is now
s,,lrclatc for federal deput.v? front the State of
tn,c for the election:: of October 1958 on the
t of the loft-of-cn'nt+'r 131'aziliart Labor Party
I'cto 7'ruh(11!11,t(l llrrr.~i!