DISCONTENT AMONG YOUNGER MILITARY GROUP IN BOLIVIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002200190008-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 7, 1999
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: December 8, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Bolivia
SUBJECT Discontent Among Younger Militatg Greup
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military set is discontent to the pars t the younger
Hertz point of desiring to effect an anti-
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Comment? By means of conversations between
source and vaMous Or-
j. ea rmation has been sought of previous re t
g coup
n combination with the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario
(M-Nationalist Revolutionary Movement).)
It is believed that this younger army group has been receiving a definite line
of anti-Government propaganda from some co-or, source
, as yet uniden tified~
The officers who have been drawn into conversation on the matter have all
been noticeably in accord in their statements. For example, some of the
points which most of them have cited are the following; the present Govern-
ment is on the verge of collapse, and such a collapse would immediately place
the country in a position which-would be most advantageous to Communist
forces. The officers also state that they are so poorly paid that morale
among their ranks is at a dangerously low ebb. Maintenance of an officer's
social. position is extremely costly, and scarcity of officers and men neces-
sitates overwork. All officers agree that the country is in critical straits
at this time and that the crisis is due to civilian leaders who are thinking
more of politics and political gain than they are of the country's welfare.
2 Source has confirmed a local press report that President Hertzog received a
petition from approximately 180 officers in the Cochabamba area in which
they suggest that he take a firmer hand in the Government. Source states
that the contents of the petition have not been revealed.
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