COMMUNIST SIGNATURE CAMPAIGN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005000610002-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 5, 1999
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: June 20, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT CD NO. C cto
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COUNTRY Colombia
SUBJECT Communist Signature Campaign
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF Prior to 27 May 1950
INFO.
obtained in the current Co.'nmunist campaign to collect 100,000 signatures
DATE DISTR. 20 JUT? 50
flDENTIA[JSJO. OF PAGES 1
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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
uo further mention has been made in Colombian Communist circles of a
rational Congress of the Partisans of Peace to be held in Bogota in
July 1150. However, Gilberto Vieira White, Secretary General of the
Partido Comunista de Colombia (BCC), has signified his desire to attend
a World Peace Congress in Rome next October to deliver the signatures
source.
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Bogota and ere were y 25X1 X
have signed twice. The name of the Liberal leader Dario Echandia apneared
on the petition and the Commun1sts intend to publicize this, according to
condemning the use of the atomic bomb.
the Communist signature campaign a farce.
the sheaf of papers containing the signatures collected so far in
&h hardl 000 names Many Cnnimunists
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the PCC will be able to afford to send a
representative from Colombia to Rome, unless the trip is raid for from 25X1X
other than Party funds. Jose Francisco
Socarras and Gerardo tiolina, Colombian Co-rnunists who are now in Paris,
will probably represent Colombia at the congress in Rome.
STATL HAVY
ARMY AIR
CONFIDENTIAL in accordance with th
letter of 16 October 1978 from th
Director of Central Intelligence to th
Archivist of the United States.
Next Review Date: 2008
This document Is hereby regraded
CLASSIFICATION CO1'FIDj 3T~ IAL
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Approved For Release 1999/09/09 : CIA-RDP82-00457R005000610002-1