ACTIVITIES OF THE ACCION POPULAR UNIVERSITARIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002400120004-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 23, 2000
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: February 24, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For R aQ Q' C I P82-004 R1D
SUBJECT Activities' of the Maim Popular Univea siteria
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1. The Co e fedexa lgA do.;.Tr'aba jat1ore,; de Colombia (Confederatiori of 'lclcmbian
J'orkeri r C'1"G 4istrt' ted a cr: of resolution of the Aoeion Po nlar Univer-
sitax (tl trereity `Foci cti Croup - AM)*, dated 3 January 1949, to
'APU labor eourees to tmio!w auAi~ie of Bogota. These courses had been
eftend given g 1 in BOGO. t ,urtnt the. latter half of 1948 d doss
Uriel ape,tai, OTC : cretax of ulture, s bed the resolution. The courees
outside Bogota will be presented in bi k educational filets costing
twenty-five centavos apiece and will be available through 'Uberto Silva,
`lamas Coneioial k tic quena, Office 407, Bogota.**
2, Silva presented the idea for the pamphlats to the CTC Directorate, which
prontsod full support in return f`or ha l..f of the profits. An oatitnated 50,000 copies
of eae1 issue will be needod. panphleti will cover the ibliowing topics:
political ece , history of the labor maw want,, proletarian revolutionary theory.,
economic and social history of Colombia, l oblens of Colombia, and labor lawn
no issues ' had been edited because" the org*%nizera desired
By the end of
f T4 -- nw-
25X1 A6a to hsmi ,s terial preps -to - 1nmn* regular publication.
CoMent. The APtl is a y uth group composed of f or- er nerbers of a
Young Cotmemist University Student group, which was farmed in 1946 by Fidel
Regueros Peralte.,'_brother of Jor Reguoros Peralte and a member of the Coavtunist
Petty of Colonbia, while he vas a atuc'tent at, the National University. One of
the principal activi :es of the A PV consi sts in conducting classes for the
labor--t*nions.
*Alberto. Silva is r praa't 22 years old and a nephew of Victor Julio
Silva, l idcnit= o f QTC. He is_, in_ his last year of law school at the
'ational Urtivers-ity =aai Is employed by a firm of architectural engineers, where
he is obey of an infori~rntion section handling economic and social cruestions.
The address.- above is that of his office.
This d?cum t is hereby regraded to
CONFIDENT L in accordance with the
1 hushes 1978 from the
letter of
Director of C tram intetligence to the
Review I%*; 2006
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