FAILURE OF GUAYAQUIL UNIT OF THE CONGRESS FOR PEACE AND DEMOCRACY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002300680008-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 3, 2000
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: December 1, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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- UP.lECT Failure of Cuayaquil Unit ^-- Congress for O. OF PAGES
'e .ce and Democracy
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i o Th `'tu? gui1 to.- a comnittee of the Congress for Peace and Demoaraoly (or.
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active unito Loosl directors have tried to arrant, meetings or tour dLi#'"erent
nieC.i; ions during the past six we&ca, but each time the-"eon/ was c!oetponed
because of the itc':< of Interest. Enrique Gil Gilbert, Ssatxadoran Can mist
leader, is quoted a& having said thtt he oonsi3ared the movement in Guayaquil
f : "total failure",
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prominent Guayaquil Conriunist, Gil Gilbert stated
that v rims newspaper articles published in Guayaquil were responsible for
the aloofness of Guayaquil intellectuals. These articles reported that several
)roriinent tSexican and Cuban Communists were 'down to be the sponsors of the
Congress for Penes and De socrRey and therefore non-Co* unlsts are vary of joining
the mover eat.
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