CHILEAN DELEGATION TO THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL SECURITY CONFERENCE IN VIENNA, MARCH 1953

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 31, 2001
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: February 16, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INT.E.LLIGEN.CE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
CONFIDENTIAL
SECURITY INFORMATION
This Document contains Information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the' United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this corm is prohibited.
COUNTRY Chile REPORT NO.
SUBJECT Chilean Delegation to the International DATE DISTR. 16 February 1953
25X1C Social Security Conference in Vienna,
25X1 C March 1953 NO. OF PAGES 1
DATE OF INFO. REQUIREMENT NO. RD
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PLACE ACQUIRED REFERENCES
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1. The Chilean delegation to the International Social Security Conferences sched-
uled to be held in Vienna, Austria, from 2-6 March 1953 will be comprised of
Senator Salvador ALLENDE Gossens, Santiago LABARCAA, Drs. Leonardo GUZMAN and
Ezequiel GONZALEZ Cortes and possibly others to be named later. ALLENDE had
already been named to head a local organizing committee and was expected to
be named as an official delegate. The delegation, as comprised to date,
appears to carry more prestige than any similar Chilean delegation named in
recent years to participate in an international Communist meeting.
2, .ALLENDE, a well-known Socialist leader, is president of the Frente del Pueblo
(Communist-Socialist combination), and is generally considered to be one of
the two most influential leftist leaders in Chile, the other being Guillermo
del PEDREGAL, Minister of Interior, GUZMAN, a highly-regarded. cancer special-
ist and. Director of the Radium Institute of the University of Chile, has a
long record as a Communist sympathizers He was most recently reported as a
director of the newly-formed Chilean-Chinese Cultural Institute, LABARCA, an
engineer by profession, is a Radical Party leader and a former Cabinet,Minister.
Although he has been involved in numerous Communist-front movements over a
period of years, has previously attended International Communist conferences,
and, is even now president of the Chilean Communist-front Comite de Solidaridad
.y Defensa de las Libertades Publicas, LABARCA has openly denounced the pro-
peace movement as Communist-controlled. He has refused to have anything to do
with the organization and reportedly feels that the U.S.S.R. is the greatest
threat to world peace.
3. GONZALEZ is the only relatively unknown member of the Chilean delegation. He
is reportedly an authority on insurance and social security matters, and was
the author of Chilean law No. 4054, related to Compulsory Workers' Insurance.
He has not, in so far as can be determined, been previously identified with
Communist or Communist inspired movements.
4. Travel plans of the Chilean delegation have not as yet been determined. It is
known that ALLENDE plans to spend considerable time in Europe.
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