INSTRUCTIONS FROM VICTOR PAZ ESTENSSORO TO MINERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001000540009-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 26, 1999
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: October 31, 1947
• Content Type: IR

ase 1999/09/08: CIA-RDP82-05M51ft1
)IJNTRY Bolivia
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP
'INTELLIGENCE REPORT
"UB.JE;;T Instructions from Victor Paz Estenseoro to Miners
ORIGIN
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DATE: 25X1A6a
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GIST. 31 October 1947
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SUPPLEMENT
It is reported that MNR leaders, most notably Victor Paz Estencsoro, have
issued orders to the Miners' Syndicate in the form of propaganda circulars and
mannifestoeo, to bring about the following conditions t
a. Continue the strikes;
Send no information regarding activities, conferences, movements of Miners,
etc,, over state telegraph;
c. Incite the Indiens, of whom there are approximately 200,000 who will back
the Mild. and the miners;
Continue every form of resistance possible against President Hertzog and
his government;
e. Secure all arms available with the aid of military-sources.
2. This "collaboration," it was pointed out in a letter from Paz Estenssoro to
Florentine Quiros, Secretary General of the Union Sindical de Trabajadores
Fabrilea, and Tian Lechin, head of the Federacion Sindical de Trabajadores Mineros
de Bolivia, would mean the freeing of the miners from the shackles of the present
goverment and place t' in a position, in the very nearfuture, to receive
justice, liberty, and power, under the guidance of the Mates, The letter further
stated that this (mean 3ng the complete collaboration) must be done to insure
success, and that all the miners must be ready to combine their forces and
strike when, the Moment cones.
3 The "united front" plan of Quiroz's, together with his desire to unite all
workers of Bolivia in a common front against Comnrwnism, is reported to have come
directly from Paz Estenssoro via Ruben Julio and Luis Penaloza, and is all part
of MNR's plan to gather sufficient support and force to insure a successful,
overthrow of the present governnms nt.
This document contains information:. affectlap
the national defense of the United a in
the meaning of the Espiona .Pecs 31 and
32 as amended. I scion or the revelation
of its c any manner to an unauthorized
s prohibited by law,
CLASSIFICATION
IA-RDP82-00457 RO01000540009-6