DEPARTMENTAL LABOR CONGRESS IN AREQUIPA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R004000160007-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 31, 2000
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: January 5, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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w3JBJECT Departmental Labor Congress in Arequipa
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1" The Corrmunist Party of Peru 0"P) is attaching considerable significance
to the i)epartrrefxtal Labor Congress of Arequipa, being sponsored by the
Communist influenced Confederacion de Trabajadores de Arequipa (CTA),
which is to be held in Arequipa 17.22 December l969o* Kanuel Ugarte
Saldana,, Secretary i eneral of the PCP, recently arrived in Arequipa
and Jorge del Prado Chavez, another Corprunist leader has been there for
some time4
2, Source reported that the Peruvian Communists will take advantage of tlhh.e
congress to map plans for the line they will follow with relation to the
Odria government, and to -receive :instructions on international policy.-.
f tf'te objectives of the Communists will be to
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ceorcfint to sotarces obtain the congress indorsement of a demand that the government nationa.liz
the Peruvian petroleum ind}.sstryo
t from Chile will reportedly attend the corrgrt s.s
d Carrmuz"is
An unidentifie This individual will enter Peru clandestinely and will not figure off:.ci.ally
in the proceedings He will remain in hiding and play a behind=thems".enes
role in guiding the. actions of the Peruvian. Communists at the congress.
Source reported that original plans had called for the sending of a 1! axican
Communist to the congress, but since the entry of such an individual into
.Peru vould have been difficult a Chilean Communist had been substitutedo
4 In connection %ith the. Arequipa labor congress source reported that other
and similar labor rnn ,~es5e3 are being, planned in other Latin A,'-erican
countries ~ Specifically named by source were Ecuar, or, Panama'. Venezu' la,
and Bolivia,,, Instructions for these labor congresses are said to have been
inL.t
received from t'exico through the Chilean Commun.i.s-.5. Pablo Nerudao The
e;?eneral plat. envisages a coordinated Communist pcliii.cy in Latin America aga
-those governments in the hemisphere which the Communists consider have '"sold
out to United States imperialism."**
5. Source reported that an outgrowth of the Arequ i.pe: congress and those ir other
Latin American countries may be the ,'ormation of a group of Latin A rica.n
(;c. monist 'leaders ehioh wool.ct be a counterpart of the Eu opear~ 011M.,
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This document is hereby regradod to
CONF')DE"?NuIAL in sccord.snco with the
letter of IS Octoter 1370 from the
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Next lcv:c.Y Date: 2008
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Comm'& o This report tends to confirm paragraph to
25X1 A yet been able to ascertain whether Poterto Morena,
Brazilian Communist, established contact with the PCP on his trip through
Livia on 29--30 November, At this time it seems unlikely since t!~a lead-
ing Peruvian Communists, Ugarte and del Prado, were not in Lima at the
time.
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