PLAN FOR COMMUNIST DEMONSTRATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000800570002-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 9, 1999
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: August 20, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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CONFIDENTIAL In ac=dance wit:i tine
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Director of Central intee;:crence to tho
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The Coe ist Party of Ecuador dee pl 'ne for pub .lo euoratratlone to be held
a 1'0-to ,, C aquil? and
Aribato on n' a evenintx of 19 August 1947 with the hope
of creating public disorder. fa lltat irr factors itaflw
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a.' An impasse has been cached over control of labor. The Socialist leader of
e Ecuadorian Confederation of Labor, 'aldons4o, do-sires on affilis.tion of
that o 'ganl tion with the Amerlden Federation of, bor cmd an end of C -
nisi participation.
b. The Cozrmrana1ets wish to play up the Peru ian. border 1asue because of the
popu ai r ppe l of this subject '-nd the possibility of em ?raasinF
Et;aaaeso: iena ovarrat rt.
. The Cowmmnists wish to play up the rising cost of li.Vin which has be
acute.
`Its Co nie to hoped thu,A the demo nst t ation, combined with the t pa rtty ox
M wide t Velasoo
might tg ite ,e ? tent revolutionary forces. The Co unists
Choi m they had full support 'from the followers of General Enriquer, e sought
%ui< Krtiu theme anti the Guavdd i . C1.:1
rgi ,ation for the dei< notratlon3 was acc,y., nplish . through Cos r_ni st cells
wit-Mu labor u_.Aoons, sty.de t g. cups .
.ic ie and ct+,her groups. ~~s e
p ?it risible purposes of the de nstre?tion, as far se the puhlie is cor Led,
as to be 4 :*1W, Opposition to the Flo Conference. However, indications were that
prepem*W.ons had been poorly made =-,d the Gove nt was ,ly Prepared to
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the xaetus for the plan laid by the Co mist Party was
W receipt o!. a e egmm by Pedro Saad from the Confederation of Latin American
Workers in Mexico., in which the latter group offered its help in obtaining, a
rovision of the Pe vi.a:,a-Fxuador:lan border treaty. The t o .mists learned that
the Dover merit of E uador has tried to organize student and public demonstrations
to follow a speech by Fore3,., Minister Tr 4illo at the Rio Conference on *:he
border issue. Now the Coewunists seek to obtain the credit for sponsoring this
poppu .r cause and embarrass the Government at the same time,
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