COMMUNIST CONNECTIONS OF KELLER SISTERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R003600740014-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 28, 1999
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: November 17, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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E iECi Cominvxiist Conriectionrc ; tiol1er Dil" Sisters
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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
':=onf ir!ation has been received' in the Cony innist Farty of Chile
25X1X !PCCh) that Eliza Keller Keller raccived special instruction in the U:"!'R
?hefore entering Chile and that she holds a high position in the FCCh, as was
alleged in newspaper faccouaite publi shad rafter hor arrest in August 1949.
When prol1miniry inverUg:it,i.ons were conducted ivr;aediately after he and her
;rister, Rosalia ;feller de ! al.ni^, were arrested an suspected Soviet agents,
25X1 X police cont lets reported that the Confidential Section of
t.nvestiguci.ones had no proof of any of the chargee in the prec's. ' fowever9
then it was learned that the Foreigner Control Section of Investigaoi.ones was
responsible for the newspaper account, determine the
.,rigin of the conflicting versi ana of the two Invosti(ciones branches. 25X1 X
2~ The cress .accusations were based on infor'mgtion furnishedd by Theodore
ifluszyniski Runny, s Secretary of the former Foli sh rmbas y in Santiago, It
J:A alleged that the report on the Keller sisters had been extracted by
fiuszy?nski Dunay from the files of the forner Ebbnasy and furnished to Carlos
Herrera Lopez, Chief of the Foreigner Control Division of Investigaoiones1
It was Herrera Lopez, who furnished the'rerorts of the Keller sistersg
tlo:rinun:i_st activities t;o the rrsss, although he his denier this to other
r_tembe rs of Trrve s t ii g?i clones.
'she two c!omen were ar,?ested by the Corit'idential Section of Chilean Investiga--
,iones; but since thh,r are furv~i,tian nationals and not Chileans, they were
la.-c.er turned over to tl,e ?orei 'nar Control Division. The Foreigner Control
Division i.nforrr';ed the Coftf'ident_?11 Section tint investigation had revealed
nothing whi.t;h would indicate tiie Keller sisters wer > Soviet agents, but
at he oa?ne time pr'ep,irod the rfeport,, ri Y:art of which fo:r:red the basis for the
:.ubsecuent newspaper sac:saour.ts, setting f'or'th the Bon. ani t activities of the