GENERAL ACTIVITIES OF THE SPANISH COMMUNIST PARTY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R003600080002-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 14, 2000
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: November 17, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
In line with his statement in April 1149 that the :orenonderance of St~auish
Cotnmun st forces were in Prue . Sonnish Communists
who were in Prague about mid-.September, They are Manuel GIr''TYO, ARCUULI S (fnu
n1d the son of Antonio BELTRA.N Casana. . SantiF o CARRILLO re-nortedly makes
freouent trios between Prague and Paris,
-resence in Prague of Dolores IBARRURI, Antonio CORDON Garcia and Colonel
Jose Luis I' 1ENTES Barrios.*
2, Colonel Enrioue LISTER lrorjrn, had not left France by the second week in
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"cevedo. In early September. Santiapo CARRILLO, who had just arrived from
ra'ague, and Antonio ??IJE Gr-rcia ..iera the only merbers of the Political Buureau
in Paris.
th-re wer$ three tendencies within the
Political Bureau of the Spanish Communist Party - extremist, conciliatory and
,3enter** explained thr't he had used those words to describe the varying at.
-4itudes within the?Political Bureau toward collaboration with the Republican
Government-in-exile. esnecialU.y during th- tine when that government was com-
- osed of inembers of nearly all nr,rties and groups.
Luis BXii".. JO Gonsalez and "!,nu l CRISTOBAL Errondonea,? according to the view
~j: many Spanish exiles in Toulouse, r,-iresent a 'Titoisttt tendency which has
? >zccime sufficiently strong to deter leaders of the P arty from calling a Party
Congress for fear of the extent to which that t-nO.enc r mir-ht manifest itself.***
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re-orted that TUENTES was active in Paris in late September in cone
r.vction with efforts of military representatives of the present Snanish GovernP-
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;4~ re-orted deviations of a nationalist rutture within the Catalan
Communist Party.
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This document is hereby regraded to
CONFIDENTIAL in accordance with the
letter of 16 October 1978 from 1 1118
Director of Central Intelligence to tote
Archivist of the United Stases.
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