PLANS OF THE CHILEAN COMMUNIST PARTY

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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 25, 2000
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: August 13, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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It has been reported that the Communistleerte of Chile issued certain in-
.,ections for clandestine activity which were to go into effect on 26 1.lay 190.
,'.1cialg them was the order that all Party militants and members who had been.
reeteiled or were in dieerace were to be contacted and united against the
aneseenneent? i!ew orders:, for -which eenbers were to be alerted, would be sent
trollf?-% couriers. The central courier is reported to be Emilio Nlbornoz
Cereasco, who will serve as liaison offieer betveen the Party directors and the
eo eho conteot the lower echelone.
The Political Cometesion of the Cann:mist Party is said to have divided all the
eenaenall groups into ievc cateporios of members. One category consists of those
!eees who are to carry on illegal activities of an underground nature after
c. anni-Comeunist Sill has been eassed. The other eroup is formed of those
Celaemists who are to leave the ranks of the Party and infiltrate other political
eereiee. The Political ?omission disapproved any laree-scale use of either
the Radioal or Liberal Parties. In the provincial cities many Comeunist
applied for and secured ner'vrehin in the Conservative Party. Eany of the
arsiehborhood cells in Santiago have joined the Partido Secialista Unificado.
On 8 Jule the directors of the Santiano Reeional Committee of the Comnunist Party
ocenented reeardine the present statue of the Party as follows:
The Coennnists hope to coordinate their union strife towards a possible
ethrow of the Government. They will take advantage of the present
_seal confusion and of the contacts they have with certain factions in
Ntee? particularly the garriscns stationed in the capital, which are
entrenely dissatisfied with present conditions.
The Central Committee has ordered all Communist detainees to attempt an
eeeepe and to resane their work at indicated points. The detainees who have
boon able to escape from Pisagua have already returned to Santiago and have
been assigned new localities in which to work.
The Conniesion of the Central Comnittee
that the anti-Goneunist law, which will
Tron labor unions and felerel and local
The Commission is not very disturbed by
of the Comeunist Parte expects
eliminate thousands of Party nembers
positions, will be passed shortly.
this, since it feels that seni-
laleeal activities will be nore beneficial to the Party.
It is expected that a national conerens of the Coemunist Parte will be
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held in Santiaeo in the near future, It rhich time future teaties and
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instructions i be announeed..
Eduardo Aqids, a meelber of the I;ational Directorate of the Coneenist Party,
is reportFa to have stated that Comeenists have been (pito sqccessful in
otealing erns from the 1ccion Chileria lnticomunista (ACHA), by nenctrating
that organization. ;Te stated that on 6 jele 1941 four Tho-pson machine
rune and eirhty Cnglish rifles were removed from ACM headquarters.*
4. The Thilean ,:orarzuniot *)art-r ulo meorted ta-cen co-e/cItely by 3urn,.13e by the
Tito-Oominform crisis, since it hal never lien officially adnitted through
Party channels that a serious rift ha, developed. The 5elretary-Ceneral
refeced to commit the Part7 on any erenapaela line until snecific Ulstrections**
were ?reeeived. The Political Oommissionof the Party issued inetrultions to all
reebers, especiaMerthe lealers, to re'rain from ma):ing any direct el!ueiens
to the
0 7119 : *The newspeper,Teellej.J1tieaseticias reported on 10 Jule that
e e e gene and rifles had been stolen from 'ACHA headquarters. 7a-esint
Gonzalez Videla is renerted to have reprimanded Arturo 01.2yarria, the bead of
ACUA for this inciient.
**A balletin, entitled :I2Iielia_Prensa .:;ontinental de Navane, is believed to be the
source of these instructions. This bulletin, which is sent to all Communist
newspapers at their request, contains the onininne of the vnrines Cormunint
Parties throughout the world. The l/e Jule- issue refleeteCt maninols sunnort
for the Cominform action arainot Tito.
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