COMMUNISM IN HONDURAS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001400800012-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 25, 2000
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: April 20, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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The group of Ca,lgrawataitt leaders ? n fonzuxsa at the present time wee organized
in Mexico in 1939 by dl `or ao Guillen Zebiyaa (who died last year). Luis P+ra.z,
ae re1eti.ve o' (luillen, Moises Ochoa :l-op , Juan Ramon Castro, and Roberto
Busau are the leaders at tto prt-cent; tine, They all received their Ct ennist
training In ? ad.cc Timmy .re ncm concentrati.ng most of their efforts on the
North Coast iri l4ocrckurea., The Ccz aauniats are carrying out that they call
the Zslaayaa Flan, which In siauiLoar to Coaiunist plane of action in other
coui triss, raaanaly, to gain poa3itioeu within the Honduran oppoaiti.on, influenec
Via opposition by taking part in tha,ir ee tinge, diazwptirrg ttrein when raeasasiar:,
and in various ways direct the Worts of the opposition along the paths most
convenient to the Ctuoauni.t3to, They have :wucceeded in influencing the
opposition a great deal but they bane failed to raiev any of their leaders to
the first rank in the opposition,
The essential basis of the oncturan Cos mete is the Partido F ac:onalista
Autentico And its publicity organ, I1 Norte, It is significant that for more
than a YW this VISW3pepor has been sdv o f a progr" of national unity
similar to that advocated by Cotetunists in E1 Salvador and Guatemala, and wbi ch
ms worked out by Als aaaau ro Dagobsrl;o Usrroquin in Mexico. This t alvadoran
Co iunist is Secretary- for ~oxrulrar Action of the Caribbean Bureau. Tlaturally,,
the Coc unists are taking advantage of t llelice question at the present tJ=,
in their anti". .imperialist c sapai gna
The following are the main points of the Communist program as it iz being
carvied out in Honduras:
a a:. Secret cellular organization in the entire count.cy concentrated in
workers' centers, and particularly in the United : rult Cowpa xiy
b The for elation of 'Tfractioris'r (fracciones), or all groups of tr.0 or
three Pe-son trained in alyl'tation st propaganda which can disrupt
political meotiugs or at-berw'ise influence politics action,
c- The diaap:)sition of "fractiorom in all divisions of the Honduran cpposition,
The deep penetration of the Nationaaliot ranks of Cariar with a view to
gaining 3t4' a tegic posi ?tienus in the event of the i i posi tion of Oalve z a
PrcpsratLon to take over rovoluwLionury direction as a politicaal, party
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