INTERNATIONAL CONNECTIONS OF VENEZUELAN COMMUNISM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-02771R000500120002-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 31
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 30, 1998
• Sequence Number: 2
• Content Type: REPORT

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CONTENTS
Abbreviations Used
Party Ties and Relationships
A. Beginnings of Venezuelan Communism
B. Disunity and Unity
0. The Caribbean Bureau
D. PCV--Bloc Diplomatic Contacts
E. PCV and Soviet Espionage
F.
Other PCV-Soviet Contacts
Conference of Northern Zone Communist Parties
International Communist Labor Tie
A. Confederacion Sindical Latino Americano
B. Confederacion de Trabajadores de America Latina
Jesus Faria
III.. Front Organizations
A. Anti-Imperialist League
B. Venezuelan-Soviet Cultural Institute
C. Pro-Peace Committee
D. Democratic Lawyers Association
E. Youth Groups
IV. Ties With Individual Communist Parties
V. Guatemalan Leftist Contacts With Venezuelans
A. Juan Jose Arevalo
B. Jose Manuel Fortuny
C. Other Contacts
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PROBLEM
To. present--f a material on the international connec-
tions of Venezuelan Communists, which can be exploited to refute
their claim that the Venezuelan Communist Party is strictly a
national party.
SCOPE AND LIMITATIONS
The data in this Pape .,has een presented under four main
heads: (1) ties between the Party as a party and the international
Communist movement, as evidenced by its representation at inter-
national meetings and in Soviet-oriented activities; (2) participa-
tion by leading Party members in Communist-directed labor activities
on. the international level; (3) links between Venezuelan front
between the Party and various individual Communist Parties
6 and Soviet--controlled international front groups; and (4)
(CP) in other countries, whatever name under which they may masquer-
ade.
h section provides certain information on links between
Guatemalan leftists and prominent Venezuelan figures.
ithough Moscow's direction and control of Communists and CPS
everywhere is accepted as an incontrovertible fact by everyone--and,
indeed, the acceptance of Sovie.leadership (international proletar-
ianism) is a cardinal principle of every existing CP save only that
of Yugoslavia--, it is not easy to document that relationship com-
pletely satisfactorily in the case of any particular Party. For the
most part, the evidence is to be found in a Party r s faithful ad-
herence to the twists and turns of the Kremlin line, in the Party{s
denunciation of whatever Moscow denounces and praise of whatever
Moscow praises, in its participation in international front activities,
in Its representation at international Co muniet meetings, eta.
e on inference and conclusion rather than solid fact (i.e