FRENTE NACIONALA DEMOCRATICO, COMMUNIST-FRONT ORGANIZATION

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002400330009-4
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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 11, 1999
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: March 4, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUBJECT Frente Nacional Dsmocratico, Cps uni.st-front
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The following background information has been obtained on the Frente
Wacional Demoeratico (iND). Caromunist-front organization through which the
Communist Party of Chile (PCCh] is hoping to elect deputies and senators
sympathetic to Communism,
L. The FND was organized 20 April 191;8 and its offices are located at Ca].le
::ierced 815 in Santiago. At the time of its establishment, it was stated
that its aim was to fight against hunger, speculation, and imperialism,,
The FN1] has held forums and meetings among all types of people in groups
composed of labor leadera3. members of student federations, intellectuals,
merchants, and womenga or,anizations. The meetings were used to express
the discontent of all classes of people and to criticize the government
on various topics of the day such as light rationing during the winter,
high prices, the extraordinary powers of the president, and prosecution
of Communists.
2 In June 190, its formal political program was adopted. This program in-?
Eluded recommendations for municipal control of utilities, exploitation
of Chilean resources for and by Chileans, industrialization of Chile and
destruction of monopolies, agrarian reforms, reductions in taxes and in
i;ariffs affecting Argent:i.na. Peru. and Bolivia, and various labor meavures.,
The FND is composed of the Parrtido Socialists Unificado, the Partido
~3ocialista Autentico. and the Communist Party. There are also other
groups, such as the Partido Liberaliata, the Movimiento Social Laborista,
the Partido i)emocratico del P :blo, and the Partido Radical Doctrinario?
h. In August 19118, the Political Committee of the PCCh made attendance at
he FND,.meetings obligatory for all militants. The Executive Committee of
the FND formally adopts the various resolutions of the organization, but
in practice the decisions; are made by the Communist Party Political Com-
rai.ttee., Militants of the PCCh control the FND. so that resolutions cone
;nary to the Party line have no chance of being passed.
The members of the Executive (ommittee-of the FND are listed with their
titles and their party affiliations:
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?,armaduke Prove VVa) z.e ?ios, President. Grove is a.Senator and also
Socialists Unificado.
Elias Lafertte G.. Vice Fr.esident. Lafertte is also President of
she Chilean Coax-iun:;.st Party anal a : ena tor.
earos Vicuna iiuent?es, Sloe President. Vicuna Fuentes is a lawyer
iii co%? .ide:eabie nrr_ sti._e who has consistently throughout his political
hale defended tLi4 cause of the underdog. both Communists and
on? ervatiweee
d- Armando Pouri uez ..uezac a. Secretary General. He is head of the
?ocial-Laborist movement having been expelled from the Radical Party.
He was civil aide-c.e-camp of ex-President Pedro Aguirre Cerda, and is
now the national President of the Boy Scouts.
Carlos Rosales, Directory and member of the Communist Party. Rosales
acts as liaison between the FND and the Communist Party. He was
elected De duty in 1939 .as member of Socialist Party. This became the
Socialist Workers Party and in 19111 amalgamated with the Communist
Party.
Santiago Wilson, Director. President of the Partido Democratico del
Pueblo (The Democratic People's Party). He is Vice President of the
Spanish-Chilean Counission of Help to the People of Spain.
. Angelina :datte Hurtado, Treasurer of FND and a member of the Socialista
Unificado Party.
h. Daniel Acuna, Director and Socialista Autentico member..
Asdrual Pezoa. Director. and head of the Socialista Autentico Party.
Luis Videla F.,' Directory and Socialista Autentico member. He is
Vice President of the "Cimite Nacional de Solidaridad y de Defensa de
las Libe rtades Publi cas"
k, Santiago Aguirre, Lirecter. A,,uirre is an Independent and pro--
Communist. He is Treasurer of Partido Socialista Unificado, and
Secretary of ""Comite National de Solidaridad y de Defensa de las
Libertades Publicas."
1. Juan B. Arredondo. Socialists Autentico member..
6. Uhen meetings of the FND first began to be held in August 191x8, they were
attacked by the Accion Chileaa Anticomunista (ACHA), which however has been
reportedly inactive in recent months. At that time, the government sus-
pended one of the meetings which was to be held in a large theatre in
Santiago. It has not since taken legal action to prevent the group from
holding; public meetings. A meeting was held on the occasion of the anniv-
ersary of the hussian Revolution, and in December 19118 a large mass meeting
of the F1'JD, attended by approximately 11000 men, was held in the hstadio
Chile,
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