ARGENTINE POLICE ACTION AGAINST COMMUNIST DEMONSTRATIONS

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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 25, 2000
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: August 30, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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INF ATI REPORT
COUN ry Argentina
CONFIDENTIAI
?3 BJU:C.T ',rgentine Police Action Agalnet Communist
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Between 13=18 July 1950,; five separpte Communist "flash" demonptr~-,tiona
occurred,; 3 in Buenos Aires and 2 In La Plates involving not more than 200
Individuals,_ Twenty?-two demonstrators were arrested and turned o'er to the
Seccion Especial of the Argentine Federal Police, The police had advance
warning of three of the demonetrs-tf.ons and were prepared to act quickly and
effectively to suppress thmm,
The chronological sequence of evente from 13 through 16 July 1950 hap been
reported as follows.,
Bt'hursday_ 113 JuiL-1950
A Communist group known as the Grupo Pro-Paz Mundial met on an island in the
Tigre area to discuss and organize "flash" Ptreet meetings protesting=
a. Ratification of the Rio Pact,
b< United States interference in internal affairs of Argentina,,
c.. United States interference in Korea.,
d.. The atomic bomb,
The meetings were also to be used for propaganda. fevoringa
a, World peace program?
b. Sale of "peace bonds,"
c,. Po eting of Communist printed matter
on public wells..
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To avoid police. surveillance and interference, the Tigre meeting took the
form of e picnic group.,
Friday, 14 July 1950
A IV, a_r,, proximstely 6.,30 p,asr.,,a group of approximately fifty person attempted
to stage a tAflPeh" demonstration on the corner of Maipu and Corr! .entes.
The meeting wa:c promptly and effectively broken up by a large number of well-
armed police who threw a. cordon around the demonstrators" Five -:)eraons were
acre?ted, They were.
:David Rai?jer (or Haler)? 20? Argentine
Samuel Wo # d? 19r, Argentine
i essss Tor ado , 18, Argentine
rUndrps ?. Fanelli, 19? Argentine
Rafael Matjanik,4, 1?0 Argentine
the foregoing individuE4ls will be
turned over to the Seccion Especial of the Federal Police for "ianterrogation,"
They are being char :ed on three countaL, disturbing the peacet holding a
puiuii c: demonstration Without a police permit-, infraction of law k' f "public
safety. er
Police in"ormanto were able to warn the authorities five hours li-i Advance of
;he d.emonst.ration., The authorities have been anticipating Communist outbrpaki4
of this nature And consequently were not caught off-'guard, The PPx esid.ent
as immediately apprised of all facts by the 4ficina de Control, del Estado
3CE), to; presidential intelligence agency?
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At 7,15 p..m.., a Co^muniat group of similar size (approximately f fty persons)
attempted to hold a street meeting on the corner of Cagle Caseror, and Calle
ioja in the Nt:rrio Pardue Fatriclon, A traffic officer tried t(break up
the demonstration and was severely beaten, as were two other officers who
,Eame to his aid? Shortly thereafter, fifteen additional police cfficer.s
rri'aed and two persons, named below, were taken into custody:
Alberto Curbanov? 26,; Argentine
Carlo s Napoli tanof, 3:30 Argentine,
T.u addition to charges of disturbing the peace, demonstrating wit.b)xout license,
ts.o.d endangering public safety? the above two are being charged w~ th assault
and battery and restating arrest,
The police had no advance warning of this particular desnonstratic:n, The two
indi.vidualsa detained are being turned over to the Seccion Especial. and police
_Aources readily admit that they rare in for some extremely rough treatment..
A street meeting of Communists took place at a market place locatod at Cagle
44 in the city of La Plata, province of Buenos Aires, attended by an undisclosed
number of persons., Police arrived at the scene five minutes aft,~r the proceed-
ings commenced and promptly stopped the demonstrations Personne ' of the
f' )mi s rise '? (La F1at.ti police).. . the D rection of Tnvo-tigationa tho',
1'en-inPne Brig k
ada wsnmen -)olicr-) arrested the following;
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J F Mona hi t~ Wife 'b$ P tiegul at i hi. s on and Ci 31?~?ttte -
olice, however, are not certain thst this family participated in the
.lemon?tration.
,nac:t o Alba and. wife,, Alba Go'hbi
lnzi.sa Angelica D0 de Gijon
r.c,,,sPrio Mercedes Mpldonadc de Armonini
The tree charges cited above have been lodged Against theseaindividuals,.
taThe police had no advance warning,, and
xuuc.h importance to the incident,
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N ring the eveni.n ; performance at the Cine an Martin in the cit;r of La Plata
a d.i turbence yr provoked by two Communists (Ing:, Omar Jorge Ri?:r:o and
B - Alfredo Douhat) who stepped upon the :stage during the interrn ~isiamnanalism Arpentinoe
A ::ra-pacion Cultural Femenina
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20 `!,e "bit and runt Communist demonstrations had fallen off about 60 Pr cent
by the end of July, but police authorities expected the name type o
demonstrations to continue_ The secret police at the Casa Rossada h.:-;d received
information that the CPA might attempt to carry out a demonatrrtinn in front
of,. the American Embassy. Chief of Police Bertollo had requested more radio
patrol cars and additional radio equipment in a memorandum handed t:, .Prer~I.dent
Peron during the last week of July,
21 The CPA was apparently trying desperately to influence Argentine pual1c
?ptnion against intervention in the Korean war., Source reported that the
Ar.~reutine police feel that the CPA bar, been unr,uccessful in this ef4`ort, although
P,* me government officials feel that the Communist efforts have been extremely
is ui tful
_Cgjrme?nt The following information was reported on some of the
i dividuals arrested by the police.,
Pedro J Fo.ntfa.na ,- According to the 26 January 1950 issue of the Communist
r er Pueblo Unldo, Fontana was the CPA ca sdi.dsate for Provincial Seua.tor from
Plata In the March 1950 elections, Fontana wr-,s previously retorted at
`e cretary General of the Comite Provincial por la Paz,, at La Plata,.
S ?,ax_c1 r A.1Lba ~- The 26 January 1950 i ;Rue of Pueblo Unido listed Ai~a, a con-
rt. a suburb of Buenos Aims.
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