LITHUANIAN COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES IN BRAZIL

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• Publication Date: August 11, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP
INTELLIGENCE REPORT
COWRY Brazil/Lithuania/Uruguay
SUBJECT Lithuanian Communist Activities in Brazil
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ORIGIN
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DIST. Eugust 1947
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1. A recent occurrence pointed to a close contact between the Soviet Embassy in Rio
de Janeiro and the Lithuanian Communists of Sao Paulo, who in the brief period of
the legality of the Partido Communista Brasileiro (PCB) are observed as having
played an increasingly important role in Brazil. A serious argument over finances
caused a division of the Lithuanian communists into two opposing factions . both
of which sent emissaries to Rio de Janeiro to conselteith the Soviet Embassy in
an attempt to obtain sepeort for their respective causes. When the Embassy was
unable to settle the dispute, the Communist Party was petitioned to set up a
special court to investigate the matearl which as yet remains unresolved.
2. The dissension among the Lithuanian communists, referred to above, arose out of
the distribution of Cr$150.000,00 (US$ 7,!300.00) that they raised after the
Montevideo Congress.* The money should have been sent to Lithuania for the os-
tensible purpose of building a school, but a group of local leaders decided to
remit only Cr$110.000000ikeeping Cr$40.000,00 to be spent on propaganda in Brazil.
The Central Committee in Montevideo objected and a violent disagreement renewed.
3. As a result, the Directorate of the Cruzeiro do Sul,** composed of Afonso Marna,
Antonio Zokas, and Anselmo Gerniauskas,who were responsible for the retention in
Sao Paulo the C?0.000,00, were removed from office during a stormy session
of the society. However, being old-line militant communiste with a subatantiel
following, these men soon returned to the struggle and propesed the expulsion from
the Communist Party of those who had led the movement against them in the Cruzeiro
do Sul, namely Megda Valentas, Antonio Vaivuskas? and one Azulionis or Ajulionis.
4. Although the Sao Paulo Lithuanian colony consists chiefly of manual or domestic ,
laborers with limited material and cultural resources, it has made proeortionately,
substantial contributions to local Communist activities. Its members appear at
all public manifestations sponsored by the Party, assist in preparation for meetings,
disseminate propaganda, make collections, and contribute freely from their own
limited fends. It is believed that they are organizing for future subversive activi-
ties. The outstanding Lithuanian communists of Sao Paulo are the folloeing:
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DDA Memo, 4 Apr 77,
Auth DDA REG., 77/1763
Date: 4.2 INt By:
Antonio Zokas
Afonso Mama
Pedro Valentas
Madalena Valentas
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Paulina Cerniauskas
juozas Liatrauilas
Bruno Bubnys
Joao Bubnys
Joao Petrauckan
Easys Fetrokas
Vladan Blukas
Afonso (lbino) Kuciuskan
Jose Aromas
Joao Blauzdys
Leonardo Saenaunlos
AntoaloVlivunk-m (2eorted ee be Lithuanian con-unint leader of all
Latin Anerica. Once deported from Brazil for activi-
tien, but later cranted annest .: by the Var-sas Govern-
ment).
Of these, the first two are considered tzlo merit active and influerrJal. Al]. of
then Irv? been ver- zealous in aui ortin,. the PCB, althou,h their arst loyalty
in to the Conlvlist Party in LiL.huania or Runnia. Throuch liainoci officers they
colrdinato their propar.anda and other activities with the PCB and ,.it% other
foreifin Con---='st 72a-oul.in operatinr! in Brazil.
5. In February 1947, a new society wan organized in Sao Paulo, ip nthjto coordi-
nate the Lithuanian and rIlavic activities,- and perhaps also 'JO constitue a re.
serve unit in the event that the Cruzeirodo Sul zlleuld be closed by the police.
Thin orrnnisation was called the Sociodade Cultural rcactev? and it held its
neetinrp at Rua dap Roseiras 26-28, in the ouburb of Vila Bela. It han boon noted
that a representative of the PCB is always present at there :,..eetings, which are
renularl7 at or,(7. 1x- Lithuanian and ilussiancommuniats.
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Con -onto: *About the end of .1946 there was organized in Lentcvideo a
Central Lithuanian Comnittoe composed of 3.representat1ven each of the Lithuanian
communistn of Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay.
**Forberly called the Sociedado Rytas, the Cruzeiro o Stayer founded by Bruno
C%abrinskan? Afonso Intonio Lokas? and Albino 4ynas (who LW deported frmn
Brazil, four-lit in the International Brigade in Spain, is reported to havo acted
an a-Soviet onpionago a7ent just before World 7.!ar II inOormany and alonc! the
East Prussian frontier, and recently hao been runored to h've returned to Brazil.)
This or7-n1sation nerves CD =active unit in tho clandestine con or7anizep.
tion.
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the Espionage Act, 50, U.S.C. 31 and
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