COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES IN CHILE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000600050008-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: May 19, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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CENTRAL LUKE. GROUP
U'ITE IGEN E REPO irr
CO t9NTR Chile
SU8JEe,T Comunist Activities in Chile
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An internal split has developed in the Ch:",leen Communist Party, according to a
source, believed to be reliable, reporting on 17 April 1947. As an exa'ple of
this split source cited the approval of raiises in gas, electricity, and tele-
phone rates during the first week of April* When the measure was discussed at
the c mmiti;ee level, members of the Com-..unist Party on the committee approved
the raises. Yet, when the measure was discussed in the Cabinet, the Communist
members of the Cabinet were completely opposed. Aocoa?c1ing to source, forces
within the party are lining up either for or against Carlos Contreras Laabarca4
Those favoring Contreras desired his r-.aipnak.icn from his post, at thet date, of
tinister of Public Works and his return to active leadership of the Paar?ty. His
opponents wish to see him expelled from the Party, in which case Ricardo
Fonseca would remain as head, under the control of Gaalo Gonzalez and Humberto
Abar eti.
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2. Source also reported that Communist Party members who were assigned a specific
mission for the Party were being required to deposit their membership cards
before carrying out their mission'. Thus in the event of difficulties with the
police, no document identifying thorn with the Party would be found on their
persons
3. A drive was being launched by the Communist Party to recruit five hundred
individuals of a higher class than those now acting as rank and file organizers.
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