FEDERATION DE ESTUDIANTES SECUDARIOS DE BUENOS AIRES (FESBA)

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Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 
CIA-RDP82-00457R002100180007-6
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RIPPUB
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S
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1
Document Creation Date: 
November 9, 2016
Document Release Date: 
December 24, 1998
Sequence Number: 
7
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Publication Date: 
December 11, 1948
Content Type: 
REPORT
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ION `40'6 ' SS 'IT i.: Approved For Release I00210018~T Na I 7N 5' 0 U9 9%1 COUNTRY Argentina DATE DISTR. lb December 1918 SUBJECT Federacion de Estudiantes Secundarios de Buenos Aires (FESBA) NO. OF PAGES1 PLACE NO. OF ENCLS ACQUIRED . (LISTED BELOW) DATEnF INFO 25X1A2g SUP 25X1A6a PLEMENT TO REPORT NO. 1. The Federacion de Estudiantes Secundarios de Buenos Aires (FESBA) was f ounded by Communists after the anti-Peron Federacion Universitaria Argentina (FUA) was investigated and curtailed by the Federal Police. FESBAIs main objectives are:, a)-opposition to Peronismo, and b) the advancement of leftist ideology. Communist students and sympathizers were ordered to join FESBA although the organization's Comnunist aims are not superficially apparent. It is a typical Communist front. organization, Jose Manzini. Communist sympathizer, is president of FESBA, and one of its outstanding leaders is Simon 4akl.er, well-known member of the 'Federacion Juvenil Gomunis 4d (FJC) of the Argentine Comm: unist Party. Several e,' ~her FJC members are also prominent in FESBA. 3. In opposition to FESBA is the Nationalist organization., Union Nacionalista de Estudia.ntos Secundarios (LINES), which is the only other secondary stu- dents' movement, Many students who are neither Communists nor sympathizers joined FES,BA because they were opposed to the nationalist polices of UN1S. The new Communist front organization is located at Calle Charcas 2018,. Buenos Aires. hare" r$gre ocume oordance with the VW IDtT1AL in 1978 irom the D1roetof Ot cent t ist of the Uni i v h Arc i Next Review Date; CI3. D CI:AST lass. -, DDAId Auth : DDA ... SEA toter le'ligenoa to the Approved For Release 1999/09/08 : CIA-RDP82-00457R002100180007-6