MARI BRAS GOVT. OUT TO STOP BOYCOTT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100460022-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 14, 1998
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: August 8, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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By PEDItO AOMAN~: ;
xetary-general of the Pro Inde-
pendence Movement, charged in a
press conference yesterday that
La Fortaleza has received orders
.from the Federal government to
put a stop to the bI.P.I.'s campaign
for: electoral boycott.
Mari Brass, claiming he obtain-
ed the information from an "un-
impeacheable source," accused the
Commonwealth government o f
'planning "a campaign of repres-
sion by legal means to comply
with the alleged order from Wash-
ington._ '
The M.P.Y, leader said that, ae-
cording to his source, the Feder-
al government intends to `take case
of the "repression campaign" by
itself if the Commonwealth gov-
ernment does not.
Local Agents
. .Isis source, Mari Bras said, told
him that the move is prompted by
a report. from local agents of the
Central Intelligence Agency who
haute warned Washington of a con-
siderable drop in poll turnout as.
a' result of tl,e M.P.I. campaign
for voter 'abster.,tion.
The C.I.A. report, IYIari Brass
continued, explains that the State-'
hood 'Pepublican Panty will lose ~
;many votes and that many follow-!
1 ers of ~ the Popular Democratic'
~ Party _ Will- heed the M.P.L's abs-
tendon calk .
~PYRGHT
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