COMMUNIST CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN ARGENTINA AND CHILE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000800160006-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 2, 2001
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: March 30, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2001/11/21 : CIA-RDP80-0081OA000800160006-0
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
CONFIDENTIAL
SECURITY INFORMATION
COUNTRY Chile
Communist Correspondence Between
Argentina and Chile
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.
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SOURCE:
1. Pablo NERUDA, well-known Chilean Communist poet, and Alfredo VARELA,
Argentine Communist, reportedly handle the bulk of official Communist
correspondence between Buenos Aires and Santiago. Correspondence from
VARELA in Buenos Aires is directed to Margarita AGUIRRE$ Chilean Communist,
in care of one Pablo LLONA, at the Santiago offices of the Sociedad
C'anadera Gente Grande. Upon receipt of the correspondence, AGUIRRE passes
it on to NERUDA, who is responsible for its delivery to the officials of
the Communist Party of Chile (PCCh) for whom it is intended.
2. AGUIRRE is one of the leaders in Communist women's groups in Chile and
has assumed increasing importance inrecent months. LLONA is a young
leftist intellectual who is eager to serve the leftist intellectuals of
Chile, who he believes are being persecuted. He is a close friend of
AGUIRRE. It is not believed that he has any idea of the content of the
correspondence addressed to AGUIRRE in his care. He turns all corres-
pondence over to AGUIRRE immediately upon receipt.
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30 March 1953