SPECIAL SECRET ORGANIZATION OF CONTINENTAL INVESTIGATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002600300001-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 24, 1999
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: April 14, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT
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As a result of the assembly of Communist Party leaders hold in Parana.
Para ay during the. latter part of January 1949, a now organization known
as Organizac,on recreta Especial de Inveotigacion Continental (Special
^ecret Organization of Continental Investigation) has been created. Each
of the four countries represented at the assembly-Argentina, Chile, Uruguay
and Paraguay.'-will foam its own investigative group so as to best further
X ode of the organization.
Augusto Canote, $'ecretary General of the Communist Party
of Paraguay (PCP who has been in exile in Clorinda,,Argentina, was in Asuncion
personally directing the plan of organization for the PCP's investigative
oup Detailed operational instructions have been issued by the Capital
Committee of the PCP to the chiefs of the four zones of Asuncion, as followst
a,, A state of po_anent, mobilization was declared for all affiliates of
the PCP?
b, Lvery zone chief was authorized to tape action to learn every possible
national and foreign secret. Contact is to be maintained with all PCP
members who might be in a position to learn such secrets,
w. Every POP member shall maintain close contact with his cell,, every cell
with its zone chief, every zone chief with his Regional Committee and
every Regional Committee with the Central Con 2ittee of the PCP
d. Every neighborhood con in Asuncion shall establish schools in which all
PCP members can be thoroughly briefed on instructions received by the
various cells from their superiors.
All PCP members were instructed to form necessary friendships for the
purpose of obtaining a thorough Bowled{;. of their neighbors, either
Parag umyan or foreign. Ueribere shall find out where their neighbors
work, what tivrae they are at hone, whether they receive many visitors or
leave their hones frequently, and if they do receive visitors, whether
the visitors are foreigmers or nationals.
CONFIDENTIAL
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his document is hereby regraded -t6
CONFIDENTIAL in accordance with the
letter of 16 October 1978 from the
Director of Central InteIflgence to the
Archivist of the United States.
Next Review Date: 2008
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3. :gory detailed instructions were issued to zone chiefs regarding foreign
r.'Uploiaatic missions in Paraguay, with narLicular emphasis placed on the
:J1nrican Embassy and the British Legation. All Party militants were directed
to learn the names of employees of missions, the particular office held by
i-iaah employee, their private addresses, the names of their friends, nazis of
visitors to their homed, and whether or not these employes change their
residences frequently.
4.. Orders were also issued to group chiefs of the PCPs follows:
a. Each group chief shall hire as agents men who are not generally Imown as
Co iunists. The 1roup chief must know each prospect thoroughly is to his
honesty, intelligence and political ideolog