BULGARIAN COMMUNISM - COMMENTS BY LOMBARDO TOLEDANO WHILE IN BULGARIA

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001000340001-6
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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 21, 1998
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• Publication Date: October 24, 1947
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP 12130
COUNTRY Argentina/Mexico/Bulgaria/Spain QA 25X1A6a
41, IFO.
SUBJECT Bulgarian Communism .. Comments by
Lombardo Toledano while in
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SU ' PLEMENT
1. Lombardo has returned recently to Mexico after attending an
International Labor organization meeting in C eneva. while in
Europe, he visited Bulgaria, spending some t ie investigating
Communist labor procedures as applied in tha Russian satellite
country. The main purpose of Lombardo's visit to Bulgaria was
to contact directly the Communist Prime Minister, Georgi Dizzaitrof.
2. The writer of the letter, a Bulgarian Commun+ it, informed the
Buenos Aires group that, as a result of his several meetings with
Toledano, he now felt sure of the Influence of Bulgarian Communists
'.n international Communist circles, per.tiaulf r1y lix Latin America.
'bledano is reported to have praised Cristo (onev; ky and Trot as
Davidov, Bulgarian Communist leaders In argerk Ana.. Speak?.ng to
the head of,Bulgarian Trade Unions in Sofia, Toledano is quoted
as saying,. "I am greatly impressed with Bulgaria, and at last I
understand what constitutes a real democracy of tbie peopl.c...1
think Bulgarian Communists are excellent leasers and very good
organizors...Bulgaria and South American eour?tries have a common.
enemy--American imperialism. With the active: help of American.
workers, we will be able to conquer that enemy."
3. When the Secretary of the Bulgarian Trade Unions cuestioned
Toledano concerning the role of American workers if a war against
the Soviet were declared, Toledano answered - 7at the workers of
Latin America will not allow an attack on So;. a.et or satellite
countries. He further said that should an attack take place,
Latin American ports would be paralyzed.
4. Toledano stressed the importance of close co- ".aboration in. Latin
America with: (a) the workers and their pro-Ceram.un.ist organizations,
(b) the Slav movements, and (c) the Spanish Fu-publicans. In con-
nection with the last group, Toleda. o Insist, (; on this point in a
conversation with the head of the Balgerian~. panish Society in Sofia.
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~. This letter in re^ortrd to have mide a profound impression
upon the Bule-rian roue in Buenos aires, one, to h ve occasioned
a lon- di!'cussion. Geno inoher, local Bulgarian Communist
leader, summed up the discussion .-Ath. the corn? ent thsit
"Toledano'a vie!-;s r--re proof of our nehievemsats."
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