PEDRO SAAD'S LETTER TO ECUADORAN VICE PRESIDENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002500680010-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 14, 1998
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: April 4, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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Pedro Sand's Letter to Ecuadoran Vioe President
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3. In writing to the Executive Cooriittee of the PCE fn ' zito asking one of its
members to deliver the letter to the Vice President, Saad also made mention
of the Committee's request of 7 Mareh'1949 that he, the Acting Secretary
General, abide by the statutes of the Party and 'Live in Quito.* Sad did not
commit himself in any way but replied that he would discuss the subject with
the Committee upon his return to Quito in the middle of March.
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1. On 9 March 1949 Pedro Sand, Acting Secretary General of the Partido Comunista
del Ecuador (POE - Communist Party of Ecuador), sent a letter to Vice President
Manuel Sotomayor y Luna, protesting President Galo Plaza *,asso's remarks that
the CoriTM mists were partially to blame for the critical labor situation in
Ecuador. Saad declarod that,if Plaza wished to avoid an outbreak of vandalism
in :1cuador, he ha;a better continue his former policy of friendliness toward
the Communists as the latter were in a better position to check the masses than
any other group in the country.
2. The letter was deliverer by a member of the Executive Committee of the POE to
the Vice President. There has been no reaction on Sotomayor's part as yet.
It is known that he is very much concerned over the possibility of nationwide
uprisings and that he has been courting Saad's friendship in order to avoid
friction with the Communists.
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