LATIN AMERICAN COMMUNIST PARTY DELEGATIONS IN MOSCOW AND COMMUNIST CHINA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 3, 1998
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• Content Type: REPORT

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MEMORANDUM FOR: (The Vice President, Acting Secretary of State,
Secretary of Defense, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of
Staff, Special Assistant for National Security Affairs,
and Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation. }
SUBJECT: Latin American Garnmunist Party Delegations in
Moscow and Communist China
1, The gives
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Zip discussions. held in February and March 1959 between Latin
American delegates to the 21s.t CPSU Congress and Soviets in Moscow
and Prague, and Chinese leaders in Peiping.
2. The highlights are these:
a. The Sovieta~and more especially the Chinese again
gave a high priority to the development and support of Communist
activities in Latin America.
b. At a secret conference of Latin American Communists
in Moscow (9-13 February} ranking Soviet officials pledged
continued aid and strongly advocated that U. S, imperialism be
further weakened "in its own backyard" . The common action
program worked out by the conference emphasized campaigns
against U. ~. bases and missions, and against Latin American
dictatorships .
c, As an expression of their great interest in Latin America,
the Chinese arranged far an intensification of
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their-'bract training program for potential Latin American
Communist leaders by adding a new four to six. months'
practical training co-arse. They laid the groundwork for
the creation of a network of press correspondents of
NCNA (New China News Agency) in Latin America, and
urged Latin American Communist parties to increase their
potential for action by creating parallel clandestine
Communist parties in each country,
d. Both the Soviet and Chinese leaders appeared to
be encouraged by the success of the Castro revolt as an
expression of exploitable anti-U,S. trends. Mao Tse-tang
cautioned that the Castro revolt should not be mechanically
imitated and that legal tactics should be tried first. The
Chinese as well as the Soviets apparently felt that current
Communist tactics in Latin America must be so designed
and concealed that they gain an
manipulate nationalist, anti-U. S. elementsbefore an
e. Unlike Khrushchev, Maa Tse-tong, Liu Shao-ch'i,
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and other Chinese leader s found time to hold
discussions with the Latin American delegates. Their
views included restatements of the benefits derived by
the Communist parties frominternational tensions,
which force the imperialists to spread themselves too
thin. The Chinese presented their attacks in the Taiwan
Straits after the U. S. landings in Lebanon as an example
of the successful diversion of the imperialist forces.
They rationalized their opposition to the existence of two
Chinas by claiming that this opposition created friction in
nsidered Chiang Kai-shek
the Free World, that th~~U.S. co
a liability and was ready to overthrow him.
f. Mao asked the delegate s that cans~iderat~ion be
given to the possibility of transforming several small Latin
American countries into one in order to resist "imperialism. "
There was no indication that the Soviets had discussed this
matter with the Latin American delegates:
. The Latin American delegates were,,,g.~-~-- ,~'~'~~"~"""?~'
impressed by the Chinese and seemed receptive to their
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advice which had as its theme the applicability of
Chinese tactics to the underdeveloped areas of Latin
Ame mica.
h. Although the Soviets continued to consider
themselves the center of international Communism, in
fact they obtained agreement fxorn all delegates to the
21st Congress that Gommunist biterature would no longer
refer to the directing role of the GPSU and the USSR and to
the need for the defense of the Soviet Union. Instead, all
Communist parties would be portrayed as independent and
equal. It seemed clear that the Soviets were sensitive to
Free World propaganda exposing the hegemony of the USSR
in the~n.ternational Communist ovement.
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5. This. report has been furnished to (the Vice President,
Acting
the/Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, the Chairman,
Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Special Assistant far National Security
Affairs, and the Dr..ector of the~Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Attachment 25X1 A2g
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