ECUADORAN COMMUNIST PARTY REACTION TO PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S VICTORY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002100240001-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 17, 1998
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: November 26, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPOR
COUNTRY Ecuador
DATE DISTR. 26 November 1948
SUBJECT Ecuadoran Cow .mist Party Reaction to Preaic ent NO. OF PAGES 1
Traman's Victory
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On 4 Iovember 1948 at a clr sel. meeting :'.n the I:al.ional i:eadquarters of
the Ecuadoran Communist Pates;;; , the subject of the United States elections
was discussed. At the meet-.-ng presided over by 2edro Saad, it was agreed
that the victory of Preside.it harry S. Truman atc the disastrous defeat
of Henry Wallace neant that war vee a cer'.ainty and that the Communist
Part of Ecuador shou'_d stekt at once to *cepare for this eventuality.
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ing about the eventuality of war for several months, they have as yet made
no discernible play for such an event. Soy, ce comaented that had Governor
Dewey won the election, the Cotnmutist reaet!.on would l: ave been the same.)
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