COLOMBIAN REBEL BROADCASTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-03097A000200020127-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 8, 2008
• Sequence Number: 127
• Publication Date: May 11, 1948
• Content Type: MEMO

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Only one broeedeast from an apparently rebel-etrolled Bogota station which
i4eenti. 'ie,d itself to the "Liberal Party Radios ' s received here. Thir was
trans?.xittod rwt, ls43 a.eaa. on 10 April on 4803 xilon.yeloe; other such broadcasts,
wt,i ct, were reported in the Aesrica n prece, were pr ew sbly on medium or long
wave chKinnolats,
The one broadcast r!%eoived (only excerpts ere available) was an emotional appeal
to the t,ao .le of 'oi?aa.bia to eupport the "glorious... Aron, rand victorious"
Liberal Pi rtj. It atteckead the Conservative Party for having financed the
aaa,aL.saatyaatton of Jorge li:ec,r Gaitax-*that great leader of the people'--and
declared that the Conservative Party is "the party of exploiters.., of the church
and the confessional.' It declared that the Cemeearvatives are inspired "by the
Jesuits?" and especially attacked Conservative President Lauren Cows,
The broadcast aph:eaaled to all Liberals, particularly those in the Department of
Cauca, 11 Valle, and coastal areas to *take up cram and join the attack" j it
c1z iced that "the police are with us."
acvaii.sblee excerpts follows
*People of Colosbial Rally around the glorious partyt Rally around the
glorious party! The party of the people! The party of the revolution&
The only Republican Party of the countryt The party of Progress! The
party of induetrial.izationl Tice great and victorious Liberal Party!
Help achieve the liberation of the common people of Coloabiat"
Claiein ; victorious advances throughout the coun wry,, and asserting ree-
,~aatedl * that "the police are with ut," the announcer addressed himself in
gzrtloular to time people of the Departments of Cauca,, U Valle and to
Otte Liberals of the coast." He exhorted Liberals to "take up arms and
min the attack."
The annouaaoer also went into a le n ;thy discussion of the origina and alaans
of the revolutionary movement. He called upon the people to avenge the
death of Jorge Tliecer Gaiten, "that rest leader of the people," whose
as axoin "was paid by the Conservative Party."
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