ATLAS AND THE ARGENTINE EMBASSY IN CUBA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A003500290003-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 26, 2001
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: February 2, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY
SUBJECT
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ATLAS and the Argentine Embassy in Cuba
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL Of CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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2 February 1954
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SOURPE:
1. Several months ago' Enrique PIZZI de Porras, Cuban newspaperman, publicly
denounced, the Argentine Embassy in Cuba for using Cuban. mails to distribute
literature carrying no signatures or names of printing presses employed to publish
such literature, As a result, Bernabe GONZALEZ Risos, Argentine Ambassador to
Cuba, made. an inventory of the books in stock at the Embassy algd decreed that
they are not to be distributed. GCNZALEZts decision was also, influenced by a
newPeronista policy.
2. Pablo G= Arias, cultural secretary. of the Cuban ATLAS organs zation, has
requested Cesar TRONCONI, Argentine Labor Attache in Cuba, to ` send him different
books of edamge~~~~rous" -character such ass The Beginning of the" 8r-d The Zero Hour
and ftruilli~ Braden!s Biography* GCEIEZ -claimed a e s refines s or
these oos; ever, the Embassy replied that it was impossible to furnish these
books at the present time. The only publications sent out by the Argentine
Embassy in Cuba at present are such magazines as Verdad America, books about
Eva PERCN, and various pamphlets, which, according to TRO[~Co not contain
any "inflammatory" material.
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