TROTSKYITE FUNDS FROM MEXICO

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R004100410008-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 12, 2000
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: March 10, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

;LASS IFICATION
Approved For Re"
RLOPClF_IF 32-00451 9j4
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
MKIM)ENTIAL
25X1A
COUNTRY Dol via/ lxico DATE DISTR. 1.0 VJ~R 50
SUBJECT' `'rot-s1-,`rite Funds from :.exico
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF
25C
25X1A
W-,. OF PAGES I
NO. OF ENCLS.
(LISTED BELOW)
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
1. The Bolivian Trotskyite party, the Partido Obrero Rovolucionario (P(1t), is re-
ported to be receiving funds from ::exico for its operations in Bolivia. Liost
of the money is in United states ten dollar bills, and is transmitted concealed
between pa es of a book. The pages are glued together at all edges when the
bills have boon placed between them A book prepared in this r>anner would simply
appear upon casual observation to have been freshly printed, with the pages yet
uncut. A large number of bills can be successfully hidden in one volume in this
m annord
2. The packages of books are prepared in .:oxico City and boar the return address of
Jorge Santiago, Lua3 t r , Apnr .ado 92.40, exico, D.F. They are cant to
small bookshops in La Paz and Cochabamba, which have nade arrango nt to deliver
then to Pd;, headquarters. T .'ac books used are usually of a non-political nature
and would attract little attention if they were placed on display in any bookshop.
3,, According to a report from :iexico, "Jorge "antiago" is a pseudonym used by
Rodrigo Garcia Trevino., director of L& official organ of the Trotekyitc
group in ibxico.
4. The Tk-~exico party, which never had great influence, lost many of its members after
Trotsky's death, and is now believed to have fewer than 200 members and ^; ! pathiz t
This group has always been in a bad financial condition and dons not have f nds
for propaganda or other activities. As a result, Lucha Jbrorza appears only at
irreglar intervals, although it is supposed to bo published trice a month.
25X1X the Mexican group does not have funds to finance Trotskyite
activities in other countries.
NAW NsRB f DISTRII UTON y ~_
STATE #
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This document is hereby regraded to.
CONFIDENTIAL in accordance with the
letter of 1f October 1978 from the
Director of Central intelligence to the
Archivist of the United States.
Next Review Date: 2008
,e'Dui'erit 190.
No CHANCE i
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CLASSIFICATION _
CONFIDENTIAL
Approved For Release 2000/05/18 : CIA-RDP82-00457R004100410008-7