SUSPENSION OF PUBLICATION OF SANTIAGO TABLOID NEWSPAPER EXTRA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001000270001-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: October 22, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP 1205;5
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COUNTRY Chile
SUBJECT Suspension of Publication of Santiago Tabloid
Newspaper Extra
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October 1947
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The Santiago tabloid newspaper Extra suspended p.:.lication last week for an
indefinite period. ], Santiago's Catrmnmic t Party newspapex, printed and
supported &Ktr&, which has been operating at a lcra for some mon'!s. The
circulation had diminished to an approximate thr 3 thousand daily subscribers
despite a reduction in price to one peso, and the advertising lineage had fallen
to fifty centimeters dailyc The page" was report idly losing five thousand
pesos per day.
2. Officials of 9121910 claim that over 500,000 pe:ys were lost in the thirteen
months' operation of gj,. A few months ago 91 suspended all such
advances to WE& due to the latter's failure to .maintain its circulation, but
they continued to print the paper free of charge. Last week the Central Committee
of the Connunist Party ordered Americo Zorilla, administrator of F i, , to
notify publishers of &tra that they would no forger print or gra t credit to
that paper.
Juan de Luigi, editor of Qj&M,, attempted to obt# in funds from Rud.ecindo Ortega,
Radical Party leader and Comiunist sympathizer, , on the closing of the newspaper
seemed imminent. Ortega agreed to work with =. for an experimental period of
one month in order to see if the newspaper could e reorganized. He put in a
small amount of capital (estimated at seventy-ti.a thousand pesos), but at the
end of the month the financial condition was una"I:ered. Do Luigi is now
attempting to obtain capital from Roberto Wacholitz, former Chilean. Finance
AM.inister, but it is considered unlikely that the :aewspaper will ~ c sume publi-
cation
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CLASSIFICATION
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