COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES ON ATLANTIC COAST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002700860001-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 22, 2001
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: November 4, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
CONFIDENTIAL
SECURITY INFORMATION
Communist Activities on Atlantic
Coast '
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.
DATE DISTR. 4 November 1953
NO. OF PAGES 2
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
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REFERENCES
1. Communist organizations in the Atlantic Coast area are concentrating upon
a study of the political line of the Party, as contained in the pamphlet
issued followin ; the Central Committee meeting in August :i.953.1 CeTla of
the Communist Party of Colombia (POO), no well. as youth and ~romens ! groups,
have been meeting meekly to discusr this document.
2. On the le.bor front a campaign has boon started to popularize the agreements
cached at the oonp ree~i hold under the auopioes of the OTAL in Santiago,
Chile, during, March 1953. The objsot veo and grogram of the OTAL are being
studied, and it 'ana planned to m&,ko use or this material in briefing the
Oolornbian ldolo teo to the 1lcrld Federation of Trade Unions I Congress
soiedulsd for Vienna in October 1953.
3. It in understood in Barranquilla that Bogota woman, not connected wl th t1ie
FCC, are collaborating in tliu field oi` feminino s otivitias. Inetructionn
have been aasoeivod from tba capital concerning the organic ?tion of the
Democratic Federation of Vlcrnon, rind tli re t its of oonforencee hold in
Bogota havo been published on the coast.
4. Taking advantage of the collaboration of etudonts of other parties, the
Union of Communist Ycutli of Colombia (UJ'CC) is onL;igod in Poor extensive
1 ropaC,anda campaign in the Atlantic ar=ea. A youth club Lis been organised
in 3arrancuillai, and its Yioekly meetings have been receiving ample coverage
in the local press. As a result of this publicity, requests have boon
obtained from other coac,tal towns for information concerninr4 stops which
should be taken in the organization of similar campaigns.
5. Barranquilla Communists have received instructions from the PCC Organization
Secretary to the effect that local groups must provide themselves with
the means of expanding propaganda and agitation activities, The clandestine
character of the Party's position must be kept in mind, and it is essential that
the present government's threats against the PCC be remembered at all times.
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The Atlantico Departmental Committee is studying the problem of changes in
the Party's directors, now that the period of "blood and firer' has ended,
and will submit its ideas on this matter to the national Executive
Committee.
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