APRA VERSION OF GRANA AND GAITEN ASSASSINATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R006000090006-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 12, 1999
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: October 17, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUBJECT APRk Version of the Gram and
Gaitan Assassixnatione
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The underground Aprista party in Peru is preparing to print and circulate
a leaflet reiterating its stand on the assassinations of Francisco Grana
Gar,nd in Perm and Jorge Eliecer Gaitan In Colombia
leaflet will make the following points:
a. The USSR plotted the destruction of democracy in Peru and Colombia
by planning the assassinations of Crana in Lima and Gait an in
Bogota4
bo Eudocio Ravines received the orders and the necessary money to
carry out the Peruvian cue M and uaas controlled by the Czecho-
slovak Legation in Lima,, The vict'nm was chosen to be someone
whose death wcauiLd bring about the i'a11 of "Aprismo" in the
go nentg and the dissolution of the Buste ante regime o There
more three objectivesa to destroy democracy in Peru, to prevent
the approval of the Sechura desert oil contract because that
a aerent would have aided the Unified States instead of the USSR;
and to bring about a military dicuntorship in the shadow of which
Communism would prosper.
c. Ravines, with much money at his disposal carried out his orders
and chose his victim: Grana0 Some Aprista traitors were hired,
as well as some paid assassins who possibly came from Cuba,9 among
them one "Ortega". They escaped to Ecuador and Chile.
d? The mcrder uae timed to interfere frith the Sechura desert oil
concession discussions taking placo in the Senate,, when it seemed
that the Senate night approve the l? n,.,
In Colombia h, it was a question of breaking up the Srnter-American
Confegenceo Dr. Laureano Gomez had Gaitan assassinated to eliminate
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that powerful democratic leader and stop his anti-Cox niat
paign. Former 1Z.nister Chef Ra jt,, condemned to death by his own
former Communist comrades of Pragt shouted to two French cor-
respondents,, just before being executed a year ago,, "I declare
that I directed and planned from bore the events I n BogotaS"
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fa Moises Mier Y Teran (then Director General of the police) was
in the ,pay of Ravines.
g. Ravines, Communist agent, was the sinister executor of the orders
of Moscow in the Grana case. This is already proved. All that is
lacking in the case are the details of the investigation which
is going on in the United States, and then the picture will be
complette. One of the foreigners who came to assist in the assas-
sination has already signed a confession which exposes the entire
case m
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