ACTIVITIES OF ARTURE ALESSANDRI PALMA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002300200006-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 18, 1999
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: February 1, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUBJECT Activities of Arturo A1.eeeandri Palma NO. OF PAGES 2
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1. Arturo Alessandri Paling, Liberal Party member and President of the Chilean
Senate, is becoming increasingly hostile to President Gonzales Videla, and
it is said that he fancies himself as the next president and savior of Chile
in spite of his advanced age. Alessandri Palma still has wide popular appeal,
as well as the support of many who held posts of greater or lesser importance
during his presidency. There are also indications that he may grin the
temporary adherence of other persons desirous of provoking the fall of the
present government in the interests of their personal advancement.
2. Since Aleesandri Palma, who recently was given the Argentine decoration of
the Order of the Liberator, has assumed the role of champion of Argentina and
Peron in Chile, it has been observed that he is frequently visited by Argentine
?Ambassador Luis Lopez Munie. Alessandri Palma is currently engaged in writing
pro-Argentine letters to his friends throughout Latin America.
3. Alessandri Palm's violent attacks on Luis Brun d'Avoglio, Director General
of Investigaciones, in which the latter was accused of a dishonest and
malicious attitude toward Argentina, are now believed to have been motivated
by personal animosity. Alessandri Palm's unconcealed hatred for Brun d?Avoglio
stems from the arrest by Investigaciones of Gilberto Godoy, well-known as a
bookmaker and notorious for his activities in the drug and white slave traffic.
Though known an the Al Capone of the t7ataadero district of t?antiago, Godoy has
been an intimate friend of Alessandri Palm since 1920 and served loyally as
his political agent in the district. In return, he allegedly was given a free
hand and police immunity during the presidency of alessandri Palma.
4o It is noted that Vital Guzman, private secretary of the former president,
frequently visits Oscar Feluchonneaux Bustamante, the Chief Prefect or second.
ranking officer of Investigaciones, who was very close to Alessandri Palma and
Carlos Ibanez del Campo during their presidential terms. Peluchonneaux Busttimante
is said to be desirous of replacing Brun d'Avoglio as Director General of
Investigaalones. several of the highly placed Investigacionee officers believe
be used as a mmition against both Gonzales Videla and Brun d' %voglio. 25X1 A6r
and it is considered unlikely that the President would have given this strategic
post to an individual of uncertain loyalty.)
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n The rapprochement between Alessandri Palma and Carlos Ibanez del Campo is
thought to be very important. Until recently the two men were bitter
enemies. Ibanez del Campo, who vas absolved of complicity in the recent
abortive military conspiracy, also is known to be extremely friendly toward
the Peron government.
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