INTRA-PARTY DIFFICULTIES OF THE PARTIDO SOCIALISTA POPULAR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002100760002-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 16, 2000
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: December 23, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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Approved For Release ENTRAL INTELLIGRE'NDCE2AGE4NCY00210076 Q929T NO.
INFORMATION REPORT 25X1A2g
COUNTRY Cuba
SUBJECT Intra-Party Difficulties of the Partido Socialists
Popular
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23 Dec 1948
DATE ID ISTR , -17-December 1948
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1. The internal problems which have beset the Partido Socialista Popular (PSP-
Cuban Communist Party) since the Santa Clara Congress of 1 and 2 August 1948
have been resolved, at least temporarily, prior to the opening of the Fifth
National Assembly on 16 November 1948. The PSP "old-guard" has control of
the party and has expelled hundreds of experienced as well as new party members.
2. Bias Roca, who insists on firm party control of the individual, has succeeded
in making the party completely subservient to his wishes. Blas Roca, who
reportedly is willing to change his opinion at any time in accordance with
immediate party needs, now feels that the party needs to be a dictatorship.
Although the PSP claims to have expelled hundreds, a great number of these
left the party voluntarily or in disgust many weeks before PSP officials
-ousted them.
3. In Santa Clara Province, more than 160 experienced Party members were expelled,
among them Juan Alvarez, Santa Clara correspondent for Hoy, a man who had
t i that rovince for years.
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the"outstanding provincial Communists.)
The PSP has suffered its greatest reverses in Pinar del Rio Province. Armando
Gonzalez, First Tice President of the Municipal Assembly at Candelaria;
Rogelio Roque, Municipal and Provincial Delegate; Blas Alfondo Crespo, a
Juventud'Socialista leader; Francisco Palacio Capote, President of the PSP
Committee of the Barrio of Pasto Rico; Liberto Perez, Municipal Delegate;
and Marcelino Rivera, PS>P President of the Barrio of Barrancos, were among
the PSP members who were expelled and who have returned to the Partido
Revolucionario Cubano (kutentico).
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