SPANISH COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES IN URUGUAY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002200110005-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 21, 1998
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: November 20, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Uruguay/Spain 25X1 A2g DATE DISTR. 3 Jan 1949
SUBJECT Spanish Communist Activities in Uruguay NO. OF PAGES 2
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1, Spanish Communist leaders at Casa do Espana in Uruguay have recently devoted
many hours to the preparation of a local campaign to be based on instructions
d from the Political Bureau of the Spanish Communist Party in France,
25X1A6a Comment. The most recent of these instructions, attached to which was
a eato to the public in Spain and America, was dated 30 October 1948.
The Bureau ordered the intensification of propaganda through labor union
publications, radio broadcasts, and democratic organizations.) Venancio
Lozoya the head of the CPS in Uruguay, has been aligning leading Spanish
Cammaniat leaders, leaders of Spanish Communist front organisations, and
labor leaders to carry out the proposed campaign.
2. The Spanish Communists in Uruguay have displayed great interest and diligence
in publishing letters written by young Spaniards living in the Soviet Union,
These letters? which have been circulated by Russians, praise the Soviet
Union. Source indicated that the USSR has initiated this campaign in an
attempt to counteract the damage to its prestige caused by Argentine declare--
25X1 X6 tions concerning the "tragecr of Spanish children taken to the USSR",
3.. Shortly after the Commwru.stss assault on the TrocadeXro1"f,Fadater in Montevideo
in a demonstration against "The Iron Curtain" (of a meeting of
the directors of Casa ds Espana was held, to whi at leaders
were invited. The directors indicated that members had been previously ad-
vised not to hold Spanish Communist meetings at Casa do Espana; however, if
such meetings were held, no Uruguayan Communists were to be invited. The
Communist members of Casa de Espana were threatened with expulsion for having
ignored the latter directive.
4. Venancio Lozoya defended the cause of the Spanish Communists by stating that
inasmuch as Casa de Espana is the headquarters for all anti-Franco Spanish
groups, it would be unjust to elianinate such an important anti-France sector
as the Spanish Communists, and that Spanish Communist meetings had been held
quietly and dealt only with internal Party matters and anti-Franco activities.
After a heated argument, a vote wits taken on whether the Spanish Communists
should be excluded.. The vote was favorable to the Communists, five to two.
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It was decided, however, that Uruguayan Communists are not to attend
25X1 X6 Spanish Communist meetings in the d that a director of Casa de
Espana is to attend all meetings. :nment4 The fact that no
Spanish Communists were proved to bed i iLved in the Trocadero
incident was a decisive factor in caving the Communists from expulsion.)
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