(Sanitized) MEETING WITH PDP MEMBERS

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• Document Release Date: June 26, 2002
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: December 3, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
CONFIDENTIAL
SECURITY INFORMATION
COUNTRY Panama/Braz it
SUBJECT
25X1 C
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title l8, 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.
Lourival Costa VILLAR's Meeting with DATE DISTR.
PDP Members
3 December 1953
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REFERENCES
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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1. On 8 September 1953, when VILLAR (fnu),l a member of the Brazilian Communist Party
and the Secretariat of the Confederacion de Tra.bajadores de America Latina (CTAL)'
met with members of the National lcecutive Committee (CEN) of the Partido del
Pueblo (PDP, People's Party - Communist), he revealed that he had visited Europe,
Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Bolivia, and Venezuela, prior to arriving in Panama.
He stated that he intended to go to Costa Rica from Panama and2then to Guatemala
to prepare a report on that country for transmittal to Europe. VILLAR stated
that he then planned to go to Mexico, to depart for Europe with members of the
CTAL Secretariat to attend the Third World Congress of Trade Unions in Vienna.
2. VILLAR's discussion with PDP leaders was concerned with the labor-union movement
throughout Latin America. He criticized this movement in general, stating that
the activity in individual countries was of an excessively "local" nature, in
which no grasp or recognition of the international aspects and importance of labor-
union activity existed. VILLAR stated that local Communist parties and labor
groups are too preoccupied with their awn relatively unimportant local problems
either to comprehend the far greater political importance of the international
labor-union movement or to devote more of their energy to promoting the interests
of this movement. In criticizing these weaknesses in local organizations throughout
Latin America, VILLAR mentioned leaders such as LOMBARDO in Mexico, QUINTERO in
Venezuela, who broke with the existing Communist Party to set up his own conception
of such a party and was later expelled, and an Argentina leader who fell from grace
in the party because of his inopportune efforts to kowtow to Peronism. VILLAR
indicated that such individuals are useful in certain ways, but that they fail to
adhere continuously to the Russian concept of Communist procedures and methods.
3. VILLAR also criticized some of the more powerful Latin American Communist Parties,
such as those in Cuba, Chile, and Brazil, as being insufficiently interested in
the problems of weaker parties in other Latin American countries and as being remiss
in lending assistance to the latter. He stated that this matter was discussed at a
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meeting following the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
in October 1952, at which time the three countries named were urged to take an
interest in the problems of the less affluent parties in other Latin American
countries and were called upon to lend their co-operation and aid wherever and
whenever needed.
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In connection with the above discussion, VILLAR suggested that members of the PDP
might be given the opportunity to travel to Brazil for study and instruction in
Party schools in that country. Conversely, members or agents of the Brazilian
Communist Party might be sent to Panama to work with and assist the local Party.
In addition, VILLAR made an offer under which funds might be made available to
the PDP through the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU), to assist in
furthering Communist aims and activities in the Republic of Panama. The amount
of such funds was to be a matter for further discussion based upon the requirements
of the Pb?,.
5. The PD? leaders who met with VILLAR made no commitments in connection with the
latter's offers. However, it was agreed that the matter would be discussed with
the CEN at a special meeting to be held on 16 September 1953. VILLAR would be
advised by letter of the final decision of the committee. This information would
be furnished to VILLAR prior to the Third World Congress of the WFTU and would
include data as to how VILLAR1s offers can best be applied to the PDP and
suggestions as to how any funds accepted by the PDP can most appropriately be
delivered.
25X1A 1. Comment. This person was identified as Lourival Costa VILLAR, Brazilian
CTAL leader,
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