PARTY INSTRUCTIONS FOR ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES IN SANTIAGO REGION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R003600080004-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 14, 2000
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: November 14, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. The Santiago Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Chile (PCCh) has
issued instructions concerning the illegal activities which must be performed
by Party members. It is noted that the Party classes as illegal the active
and open participation in the following four basic Party activities:
a. Political action in the various communes;
b. Aid to political prisoners through the Comite National de Solidaridad
y de Defensa de las Libertades Publicas;
c, The struggle against the rising cost of living; and
d,, Participation in the Pro-Peace Movement.
20 Each Party member in the Santiago region has been ordered to continue his
normal cell activities'. but in addition to participate in one of the above
illegal activities. He must give an account to his cell each week about such
activities, even if his only participation was attendance at a meeting.
. The Regional Committee considers that the past two years of police repression
during which Party indoctrination was stressed have sufficiently prepared the
Party members for activities outside the Party itself,
The political activity in the communes is being carried out through Syndical
Relations or Coordinating Committees, which are formed in each commune where
Communist fracciones* exist in labor syndicatesn To complement the work of
these committees, ttie Party now intends to form Political Relations or
Coordinating Committees composed of delegates of all the opposition parties
with organizations the various communes. In this way, the PCCh hopes to
unite the anti-government opposition just as it is attempting to unite the
various labor factions through the Labor Relations or Coordinating Committees.
Unity on the working rather than on the executive level is being sought. If
the Political and Labor Committees are able to gain effective control of the
rank and file,, both the political and labor leaders will be impotent to prevent
the Party from achieving its aim of creating a national mass movement of
opposition to the government:,
as Aid to political prisoners is being handled by Carlos Contreras Labarca
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through the Comite Nacional de Solidaridad y de Defensa de las Libertades
Publicas (CNSDLP). The CNSDLP was inactive for some time but is now
renewing its activities under the presidency of Carlos Vicuna Fuentes, a
.lawyer who recently returned from Europe. The CNSDLF plays both a political
and economic role by endeavoring to obtain both the moral and financial
support of prominent people and political organizations for the political
prisoners.**
pia Party members are attempting to organize the popular discontent against the
government caused by the steadily rising cost of living. Party members
assigned to this task have instructions to organize neighborhood eaaomittees
in every city in the Santiago region.
7o The Pro--Peace Movement is regarded by the PCCh as having exceptional importance,
and the progress already made is considered highly satisfactory.
Instructions have been given, however, that these extra activities by Party
members shall in noway affect adversely the normal theoretical and ideological
study within the cells. At the present time, the leaders of all the cells
of the Province of Santiago are being questioned about the study program being
carried out in their pens toward preparing a uniform study course of the
histgH ogthe Communist Party of the USSR..
*cf.
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