VISIT OF LOMBARDO TOLEDANO AIDE TO COLOMBIA

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CIA-RDP82-00457R005000130008-8
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2
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November 9, 2016
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March 1, 1999
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8
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May 8, 1950
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REPORT
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1NTEtLOf i Approved For Relei!fV` 9M'WDOQ F40M-00457 OI'94 N. 141 INFORMAT MMMYRE CD RD 9,)67 COUNTRY Colornb1n,4 e o DATE DISTR. 7 50 SUBJECT Visit of Lora rdo Toled zno Aide to Colo im NO. OF PAGES 2 PLACE 25X1 A ACQUIRED NO. OF ENCLS. (LISTED BELOW) 25X1A DATE OF 256 tt. 4-8 May 1950 SUPPLEMENT TO S0.3983O* REPORT NO. 7. Rafael. Carrillo, r.iexican labor leader and aide to Vicente Lombardo Toledano., arrived in Bogota late in the afternoon of 4 May 1950 and vu,; arrested by the Colombian National Police on the follorrIng dap. Acccz ding to source,, ho was arrested by several detectives acting without uporic orders., token to police hendqucarters,, questioned, searched and sot at liberty after an apology fron Colonel r.Tanuol Agudolo, Chief of the Dorart'ne t of Ir ostigot ion of the Matlonal Police. 2. Car-oil? o told the police that the purpose of his visit was to address tiara Tenth Labor Congross of the Confodoracion do Traba jadorees do Colorhbi?a (CTC) jq vrhich had convened in 13ogota on 1 flay 1950, and requested permission of the police to do so. Colonel Agudel,o told Carrillo that there vas no objection to his addressing the Congress. Howeverg t*en Cazrrill.o atte~:apted ? o speak before the Congress on 6 r.lay., the anti.Conxnrdst Liberal majority caused such a disorder that his rev: arks could hardly be hoard. 1h z theme was that the CTAL in not a Cora !n ni st organization or a tool of foaca7. Ile ; voter ted. to his audience that ho had the permission of the police to speak, but this failed to quiet h hocklors. 3. Carr:Lllo told Coe mural t labor lecadoro and labor loader, of Cor urd.st sy:-tpcati s that actually the principal purpose of his visit vies to announce that a labor con ss raoulcl be hold by the Confedoracion i eg .on a1 Obrora rlo:dc am (GRal) in Nox co souritimo in 1.950 to organize another co5xt1irint?a1 labor control. Ile described CRO' as the oldest syyacli.cel in rlo co. The congress till denounce before the Latin iirie rican proletariat the attempts of I 1e A.F. of L. to control the salaried Corkers of the continent for imperialist purposes are expose the results of the attack by imper~,alism again. -.t Communism within the 3 boringg classes. The now labor central will be a branch of the CTRL, organized in such a way as to attract affiliates from those unions which lacked confidence in the CTAL or which hod been forced by imperialist manoutrars to break with Carrilo said that this announcor nt ,vas fort .eularly oprortuno in Coloilbia because of the CTC a a break with the CTAL dtn?ing the very session at which ho had tried to speak. Since the Communists., or others who did not fnvar the ? oat pwero proposing to orgar.izo their own labor central in Colombiea, Carrillo _ -.. n.n~n.n. rr.na. ..T_. -TI -T-1 STATE A ..._ ARMY CLASSIFICATION Thl document is hereby regraded to CONFIDENTIAL in accordance with the letter of 16 October 1978 from the Director of Central Intelligence to the Archivist of the United States. 00Fov '" F I Approved For Release 1999/09/09 : CIA-RDP82-00457R005000130008-8 CONFIDENTIAL CEIITRAL I11TELLIC NCE ? GF T ; 25X1 A 1onlly afil.tate Tri.th the proposod eon- felt that the non central s?nota3rl l or tines7-tl labor central. - During his stay in Bogotra ~, Carrillo ravo:i.dod. contact with the P^rtido Come ,ta do Co:Lor~bia (POC) as such rams did not go near Par%r headquarters cr visit tho homes of Cormunists. He did hoot with Connmats a he .ever' at the caffieas at the OTC. Source conslder& it significant that Garr logo principal cont-a.r is included frior3s of A ;u ita Dunn and Duran hinself m and reported that on Cortr,unist leaders had ea aresse3d the opinion that tho results of the CTC CoiLr, res s ;:alit have put Duran back on tho road to :io?aciorshi_p of the PCC. 25X1A CTAL Central. Corriittee numbers s o ;, ?- airy , and ?T uol Arcot. Guaa n of EctxadcRr, as troll ra;a do1,oaatos from Peru and Chilep crould participate in z raoeting in Bogata eat the Sou:Lh Pacific Regional Committoe of the CTALv, Which would bo pre 0ed over by Rafael Onarrillo0 Poch-o Abolle caho lives in Bogota tins in close contact with Cnrril.io., Accra,-dim to reports receivod to data., Napoleon Liolin could not be located and thoro is no erridonco that Miguel Gnu mmn or delagate from crthor cottntr'ie s L?aex o' in Bogota daring CarD1Uog s visit. 6. :rrzsr zr as sourco has boon cable to dotox nine a Carrillo had a]rnost no comb act with. Gilboa-bo V ,e:ira I'Ihite, Secretary Genoral_ of the POC., b not f-reg rttiy with other Communist party leaders such as Pero Joe Abe .la, Venttrva Puentes Vano s, Carlos Arturo Aguirre,, Fi].ahcrto Darrero and Augus to Duran, 7, Carrillo told those leaders that the pln- n to est-nUish the headquu'tors of the South PacL 'Lo Regional. Committee of the CTAL at Panama Ind boon dropped because of the Phna xn n grova.manent7s recant action in dociarir)g tho Communist party illegal. Carrillo staged teat tho hoadqu arters of both tho Caribbean and the South Pacific regions would probably be ;Koxioo0 CONFIDENTIAL Approved For Release 1999/09/09 : CIA-RDP82-00457R005000130008-8. ~rydR