ALFREDO GUERRA BORGES, SECRETARY OF GUATEMALAN EMBASSY IN EL SALVADOR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002400160006-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 23, 2000
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: February 24, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. Alfredo Guerra Borges, who was named Secretary of the Cuetemalan Embassy
in San Salvador on 24 January 1949, is a suspected Communist and self-
styled: founder of the Guateaelen Commmittee for Peace and Democracy, a
uhu.ch sponsored the G:u.atemalan Committee for Peace and Demmocracy. He is a
past Secretary General of the SAiC .R-TI, believed to be a Communist-front
organization and also a sponsor of the Committee for Peace and Democracy..
Cox rd.sst front organization. He is expected to devote-.a good part of his
energy in El Salvador to the Zause of the local Committee for Peke and
Democracy. Both Committees are part of a continental drive to organize
a Communist-sponsored Congre ma for Peace and Democracy in Mexico in .the
spring of 1949.
Guerra Borges was born at 'Juatemals City about 1924. He is married'to
Josefine Cestaneda 'ransi]. a. Until his appointment to El Sa1vedor, he was
employed as an Editor in the Department of Publicity of the President. He
held the position of Ins'ie ctor General of Labor for a time during 191x8. He
is a member of the Partido de Accion rievolucionaria (PAR), for which he
electioneered during tba recent elections, and of the Sindieato de Trabajadores
,~ nteleetuales y Artistiis Revolucionerias (STIAR) which was one of the vroups
Guerra Borges was in Chile until 1947, and it was there that he became
interested in Comminism.. He is the recipient of Communist propaganda from
Cuba and :. xi co , 4 nd a correspondent of Lombardo Toledano, 2exi can leader
of the CTAL..
4, Guerra is planr.'.ng to organize an international Congress of Intellectuals and
Artists to be held in Guatemala City.
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