SPLIT IN COMMUNIST MOVEMENT IN COLOMBIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002700530006-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 7, 1999
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: April 12, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Coicrihia
SUBJECT Split in Corflunist t'ovement in Colombia
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x t t: er pts by individual menbers of the Partido Camunista de Colar-bia (PCC )
and the Partido Comunista. Obrero (PCO) to of l'ect a reconciijation between
the two parties have consistently ended in the expulsion of the. PCC members
for divisionist activities.
2. his intransigent attitude on the rare of the PCC was recently demonstrate!
1rw two expulsions from the partyr. Pastor Quintero is beinp expelled from
the Cc .mist Construction Jorkers' cell in 3opota. ?ccording to a report
submitted by Serafin :iuril.lo C., secretary of the cell, Quintero has been
accuse o P:
soooerating with ne-hers of the Partido Comunista Obrqro (P00) in the
c:onstr'iction s-m 7iiCate, subr?it;ting reports concerning the cell to Jesus
Vil' eggs Palacio, leader of the Construction iior'ders' Pec3eration and
nee-ber of the P00, and imne ling PC' agitntirn aronlr the wor':cors.
h. _ 7aaintaining secret contact with members of the Unit-on Is Praba jadores
Colomabianos !TJTC) a &t repo-tine to them on secret matters of the PC".
3. A ocorcling to Jorge T nrique 3ayona, P O. leafier, 'luintero is a nio ber of the PCO~
l3ayona also stated that the FCC has not been able to gains a influence among
the .to-'sera of tho constriction, telephone,, or Bavaria (brewery) synileates
in 9ogota, and the activities of some P00 agents, such as i3erna.r1o 'edina in
Sar a=zct~ala.la, have pre ju-:liced the Com-unist movement as a whole. *
4. Aiure'? iano Lozano of Girardo, Department of Cindinerarca, was the ue^on'3 to
exnel1_e?1 for his attacks against the part~* lea,- ers and the PC4-sponsored
a?arm A,oa0ies.
25X1 A6a * C Lint. Shortly after the 9 it nrii. 1944 uprising, " uintero was arrested
with other FCC members for dictrih utinp conies of the FCC le?t, Reel teia .ao
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