CONGRESO CONTINENTAL DE CULTURA SCHEDULED TO BE HELD IN CHILE FROM 26 APRIL 1953 THROUGH 2 MAY 1953

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 27, 2001
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: February 19, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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 form is prohibited.
COUNTRY
Chile
REPORT NO.
25X1A
SUBJECT
Congreso Continental de Cultura
Scheduled to Be Held in Chile from
DATE DISTR.
19 February 1953
26 April 1953 through 2 May 1953
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DATE OF INFO.
REQUIREMENT NO.
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REFERENCES
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
1. The dates for the often-postponed Congreso Continental de Cultura, slated to be
held in Santiago, have now been set for 26 April 1953 through 2 May 1953, with
little likelihood of any further postponement. Pablo NERUDA, Chilean Communist
poet, recently returned from Vienna, Moscow, and a two-week rest near
Montevideo, has been relieved of all organizational tasks connected with the
Cultural Congress. NERUDAts name will continue to be played up in oonneotion
with the Congress for prestige purposes9.but as a result of irresponsibility
and lack of initiative shown to date, he is being replaced by Cesar GODOY Urrutia
as the responsible PCCh organizer, GODOY, a well-known Chilean Communist leader
generally considered to be the Party's n=ber-one organizer, took charge of
preparations about the end of January. GODOY will not appear officially as an
organizational leader, but will direct all organizational activities and propa-
ganda.
2. Activities with respect to preparations for the Congress had been virtually
dormant during NERUDAts absence and immediately prior to the designation of
GODOY as organizational director. Enrique BELLO Cruz, Communist writer and
director of the Communist-line magazine Pro-Arts, will continue as nominal
organizational director and will serve as GODOYts chief aide. Others who will
play leading roles in future organizational activities are Alberto ROMERO, a
writer, who is president of the Comite de Iniciativas, and Selva SAAVEDRA, a
Doctrinary Radical and Director of the Escuela Tecnica No. 1 of Santiago.
3. The selection of a Secretariat headquarters and a finance drive among Chilean
intellectual groups are among the first and most immediate tasks contemplated
by GODOY. With respect to the finances of the Congress, prior to NERUDAts
return it was believed that he would receive certain supplementary funds
while in Europa. However, there has been no further word regarding such
funds since NERUDAts return.
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