MAASS-SOTO AFFAIR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008900290008-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 12, 1999
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: October 26, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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GUASSIFRCAT'ION Co_a 1Di TL'L
> UNTRY chile
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
FO TI REPORT
4 BX-._CT Maass-Sato Affair
? i ED
25X1A
REPORT NO.
DATE DISTR.,
V') 6 October 1951
NO. OF PAGES
7
NO. OF ENCLS.
(LISTED BELOW)
25X1A
: ,, As of mid--Septet r 1951, the Chilean Appellate Court; under 1R.g1 trace
Jose Erz? irre, was continuing to hold hearings on the faked idnaprai ~
of Bdgardo Maass and Domiciano Soto., Sufficient crininal evidence was
then available on the follocring individuals to implicate them in the case
Fdgvrdo rasa Jensen
Domici? no 3otc
Carlos Alexander Fell.enberg Ferrer
Federico Giena Steele
Jwtan Diego Davila Basterrica
Jose Adolfo Moreno Vergara
Enrique Paut Barron
2. in addition to numerous other persons
;;arsons had been summoned:
Principal
Principal
Principal
.Accomplice evider" e believed
lacking to classify as prin-
cipal,.
Acccaoplice in absentia
Accomplice in absentia
AccomplIce in absentia
gaee tior.d by the Cam.; the fol.i ot:.ng
Carlos Th z del Campo A form r dictate, and now prejl.c' .-ial
candidate.. who would have pro
: .-r
most had the plot 'succeoded,
tltimcrmo Izaulerdo Araya
been closely interrogated by "y :`a;curt
which was unable to de lop a l-,.,-.7
r_p ac
evidence of an overt act on his ; a: t
to further the plat $ other than ? , st
association ~r."nth most of the p >. i ;,foal s.,
A former pro azi, who has :Long .;Yana
an ardent supporter Of Ibanez. h Is
very pro-Argentina, is the director
of Accion Chileno .,1 -gents a
closely associated ,z1th a of tb
above persons and accomplices,
_+ 4?.hh
he is highly su~ct, there is denco regarding big raarticipatic: in
the plot.
ON COPIFTDUTATJ
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deter , ned to 'once Frecidout Gonzalez a tdei.a from office, r"rarther, , I oblote
flXi aine t, '1T ter the P1 's f`371're tt enter the 'rovernment, iuYpuer re! lizerr
thi.t the Popular "ocirtl.lets could nrob-tbiy cortti l only 't,OOO vote-s in the
arit.xre country ^.-1 he c?ectded '-.hat a "couf" tl't t*it" .,x^ r10 Kn.' only way
t-.f F`"t1.n imf1uenet; for hi:; n-lrt , Foblete endod: tArlpuerc; iv, r' the irector
of +; he Yolot and Tkii ;8 only Its exorutor... ,,"the C'o?mllu.i.rtn knew. about thin ytnc?
ww , -I-, to ,leo s".ts rnrult;s.. ig
12, On 25 !4u--must 1151, the f'overnrront h'rc3 n itr of-)sses;s.on a list naming the
labor lcr,c}err. who w-re aireuedly '.bout to travel throughout Chile on order;
of the Corrmntst faction )f the Confederneto de :rub- Burns de Cie
"",r3reou of : ~'~,
(C:`c i) to Tyrepare for a nation-wide s "ri.ke for ;?', /.u?runt 195L
it becarte apparent that the ii st in the 7overnr ent ,,n r)asse ssio' .ran
f-tbricated by an uni.denUUMed inform=-t. and ~-rar- cormieto tY false.. lots. 3 lys,
never at any tine ilttr ng that er'iod did the C'-:'Ch r1ea1de to e nil a E-ri rFxl
tri l ;. and no .Labor io'ader left Carrl~i:~ cs ::
13, An internal Chilean Connun-i r t. P:1Art_7 investierrit ion or itn own northers and
theirr -on;?si.ble :h"1 ication In the I4aassw?oto incident,, has failed to reveal
nartlc1.pa ,i.on of any Coriiunists in that affair, although the Party doer not
over?o ik t:hc r"?)s sibi.l4,ty that Luis tte1nosio ;Uvnrez or other ox-Corgi un:.stn
!i ~h't 130 involved,, 6 ,'einoso 1onr car -ldered one of sl~o le?~din co tpononte
of he Chilean Corrnznis;t PartY', .a,ar rxpellod from the Party in April 1951
for aelvocatlmr? anfl le-.di Yt; devi. itioni fit 1,olictes..,_
14, The C-E?r a"rrij,`t Partyec Folitica,l Ccr,riiceton reportet,!.ly reca11et' during this
tnve^',i* -t 1.on shat, at the ti'tea of Rei.rioaa a,. expitl.s an the 17i: or anec of:
the Pa t,,7 v s no i bee 1 Ling i nvo1'v d to any coup, which -As :ht prove harnfu1
to itr ,;rc-,tige before the working narretes,, w?Ir" e~rp1.;.citly stated:: The
Po - tica:i. 1`-arir .scion feels ',hay, the Con:'tni:3t ParttT,,,, are the van uard of
the proletari.-tk should wide; them. in their rtru ;?1_en nnrd r-ervc is a
rallc In point t:'aen an actual innurrectio occurs, but nlioul.d `cold the ;e
rare "iarren back :... 'n and' such rioven which do not ' old nro.~~ise of heconin;
fb7 `r-,scale ravol."'.ti. ansr . '1'Yie.y differentiate however between the above
and, a^ in exaninle the hvnothetiea1 cane of the .4rr-r:r organizing a coup
awl nvi tin? the Cnrr unir.t P.artir to 'm'ike part an a rs^1- ti cal r i of orcet?lent s 111
which t:` e the 1-in,,)? ',r '1r3 cer't- in1y eccept+,,
)E.;_> The Co-i nirtr -1-Ant to the ;7aa,ss-Coto episode an ro emp:li.fyiri trite l sxr ar
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called ""avo ntepn b"rC?l'A41rdc" for the n:,n~~1C'"'t a -'ove"f'o`nt of 1" bor and w'T, c
col - r workers,. he 7 consider he .road ahead very tiffissilt;, with the
-l~avenent:,
over :lent disposed to i?,ripe out acv vonti.go ef z r-..rndic_al labor
It i;-. furher no:-.ed by tl"o Corn,unirta that the rolitical ricture liras on tho
ready to
vere of a r ?az:area and that, the Ccsrirrsani.st Party :.car t'.ing and
reap the bonofttr?, 'hen the t:aaa. s- oto a f P-0,r crime al on to o literate four
: e-rr of natient trork?
i.6 .'In a rr?sulty; V -P, o'r mnirts now feet. -m it; tne''r h,`ve the nuitln.ie problerrt9 of
overco'"i.ntg lack of confi dpnce in their lea e'"` b- the 'Ldorkor`>, ""fear and 'orris""
o" i. f:,rironment, and the "hone and is Illy problem"",, bou,1hrt; abotrt, b" ul'rnq
and fa'-ii.f_ien urfing the workers to r;taN, out of labor and roli;ical battles,
The ] .thtieal Co-vision 0o)nsicder?; the ::.aans._"Quo inciconk to be truly
ci ar?;,ror~~a.ic for the C,om>,a,mli' t Party.
In com:ecti_on w" ';h Ciai I' eno 7zeule'rdo Ar-.rq,, rrpr xcr-11^t-? and t" ne of ?he
l C l" ? 3:Ir. +-sue t lotted by the Court re, ar'di nr? the ! ri'1!`.*3'?++(]"~