SPLIT IN THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF CHILE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001000480005-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 9, 1999
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: October 30, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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COUNTRY Chile
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE' GROUP
INTELLIGENCE REPORT
SUBJECT Split in the. Communist Party of-Chile
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DIST 30- October 1947
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1. has reported that there
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Party of Chile. One faction is described as that of the ?intellectuals," and
the other as thnt of the ?workers..' This division within the Party itself is
o.id to he due to the baclegleemui of the individual directors. Some of the
directors are professional nen with university educetioes, while others were
tnemeelven at one time laborers, or have what is described. as a worker's back-
ground. Inior to 19a, the so-cared intellectual group had control of the
Communist Party, The leader of this faction was Carlos Contreras Labarese a
lawyer who was aided and influenced considerably by his, wife, Ciaudina Acuna
de Contreras, who was also a lawyer.
2. The so-called workers faction gained control during the Congress of the
COMM/lie; Party. in 1946. This groups however, did not have a,sufficiently
euelified candidate to lead the Party, so they elected one of the intellectuals,
Ricardo Fonseca Aguayo, as Secretary General of the Communist Purty. This same
workere faction still reintaire control of the Communist Party of Chile. The
lenders within the faction includes
acardo Fonseca Aguayo;
Humberto Abarca Cabrera: Congressmen;
Luis Peinoso Alvarez, Secretary of Organization of the Connunist Party;
Luis Valenzuela V.r Congressmen and administration leader of the Party;
Pernarno Araya Zuletae Secretary General of the Confederacion de
Trebajadores de Chile (Communist faction) and a Congreswan..
3 Leaaers of the intellectual group are as follows:
Carie" Contreras Lebarca, Senator;
Cesar Godoy Utrutia, Congressman and Chief of Press and Peopaganda for
the Comunist Party;
;Salvador Ocampo Pastene, Senator,
4. Senator Elias Laferte Gavino, President of the Communist Party of Chile, is
described as a mere figurehead. Gab o Gonzalez Diaz and Volodia Teitelbole
Volosky are the most important and influential leaders of the Communist Party
in Chile: and these two individuals reportedly receive instructions from Moscow.
Gonzalez is the national Secretary of Control and Discipline of the Corruniet-
Party:, while Teiteltoim is Commissioner of Education of the Comeunist Party
and reputedly a financial expert.
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reports ttlat the spUt within the Communist Party of Chile hen become more
accentuated during September. Several important menbers are said to be re-
signing from the Party. Jorge Mario Quinzio is one such leader who resigned
the second week in September 1947. Quinzio vas a leader of tLe Communist
students for approximately ten years. He was later sent by the Communist Party
to the provinces, in order to organize local Party leaders. Fe was especially
active in Concepcion, Lots, and Coronel Provinces. Quinzio was graduated from
Lew School at the University of Chile, and was one of the few intellectual and
upper class Corrlunist Party leaders. He was closely associated with Communist
professors and teachers, and was a personal friend and strong supporter within
the Party itself of Carlos Contreras Labarca.
6. Carlos Contreras Labarca is at the present time in coMplete disfavor with those
ruling the Communist Party in Chile. The only reason for Contreras not having
been expelled from the Party is that the now-ruling Ricardo Fonseca Aguayo faction
fears the resultant publicity train such an act. Contreras does not hold any
position of importance within the Communist Party at eresent. He is a member
of several connittees, but he is rarely called upon for any ad ice or opinion.
He is becoming increasingly inactive within the Communist Party,
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