COMMUNIST SETBACKS ON BOLIVIAN LABOR FRONT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A003500360009-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 26, 2001
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: February 5, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
CONFIDENT..L
SUBJECT
Bolivia
Communist Setbacks on
Bolivian Labor Front
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 1s prohibited
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5 February 1954
1. Opposition to Communist maneuvers on the Bolivian labor front has recently
increased in the Central Obrera Bolivians (COB) and its departmental counter-
part in La Paz, Central Obrera Departamental (COD). Among the more recent
defeats was a proposal for an official COD protest against Victor ANDRADE,
Bolivian Ambassador to the U.S., for what the Communists termed "selling out
to the U.S." Although the proposal was defeated by an ample margin, it is still
under study by the COD directorate and is expected to be released to the
Bolivian press at a later date.
2. Meanwhile, leaders of the Communist Party of Bolivia (PCB) are most concerned
over what they feel to be increasingly rightist tendencies of the government
and are considering the withdrawal of POB members in important government
posts as a first step toward active opposition to the administration. Also,
the Communists are openly soliciting the adherence of left-wing members of the
Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario (MNR) to the Communist labor movement,
and are having some success.
3. Both the PCB and the Trotskyist Partido Obrero Revolucionario (FOR) are
concerned over the recent split in the Industrial and Commercial Workers'
Union of La Paz, where distribution of support of these opposing Communist
movements was so.nearly equalized as to allow right-wing members of the MNR
to assume control of this organization. This rightist exploitation of left-
ist differences appears to be a fast developing pattern throughout the
Bolivian labor front..
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