PROPOSED REORGANIZATION OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF COLOMBIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002200230007-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 12, 1999
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: December 2, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY
Colombia DATE, DISTR. 3 Jan 1949
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1. Prior to the 9 April uprising the Communist Party of Colombia (PCC) made
plans for an extensive reorganization of the Party. As a result of the
rioting and subsequent close check maintained by the Government during the
state of siege, most of the Party cells remained inactive. However, a
"minimum plan of work" for Bogota was drawn up for September, October, and
November 1948. The plan called for an increase in membership, particularly
among organized workers, an increase in cells and the strengthening of
existing cells, and an outline of minimum requirements in education, agitation,
propaganda, and finances, etc. The control by the Communist Workers' Party
(PCO) of the three largest syndicates in Bogota helped to bring about almost
complete failure of the plan.
2. Anticipating the lifting of the state of siege with the closing of the
Congress on 20 December 1948, the PCC planned a reorganization of the Party
in the principal departmental capitals, with particular stress on Bogota.
Jaime Barrios, Filiberto Barrero, and Renato Arango were assigned the task
of setting up an effective organizational plan and of putting it into operation.
The plan divides Bogota into zones. Each zone will exist as a separate
entity with an "action committee" responsible for the activities in the zone.
3. In connection with the proposed reorganization, great importance is attached
to the recent appointment of Alvaro Pio Valencia of Popayan as National
Secretary of Education. Valencia is considered one of the most intelligent
and capable members of the Party, and it is expected that he will ass=ft ' a
great deal of the organizational work involved. It is also believed,
because of the continued ill health of Gilberto Vieira White, Secretary
General of the Party, that Valencia may later occupy that post.
4. In addition, there is a certain amount of dissatisfaction apparent among some
Party members with the present Central Executive Committee, and it is possible
that the make-up of the Committee may be considerably changed at the VI National
Congress of the PCC, now scheduled for July 1949.