STATEMENTS OF HMB THEORIST IN OCTOBER 1951 SUGGESTING NACIONALISTA VICTORY MIGHT RETARD COMMUNIST PLANS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009400400003-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 1999
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: November 19, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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INTEL18FAX 4 CENTRAL N IrYNG iVc &GENL'i REPORT NO.
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COUNTRY Philippines DATE DISTR,19 Nov.,
SUBJECT Statements of H60 Theorist in October 1951 Suggesting NO. OF PAGES 2
Nacionalista Victory might Retard -Com i
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1..,, An unidentified 1- theorist stated late in October 1951 that if lIMB
plans to sabotage the Philippine elections were unsuccessful., the LIMB
would be obliged to contend with the Nacionalista Party,, ana that since
Nacionalista leaders are me honest and more competent than Liberal
Party leaders, the Philippine Communist revolution woula thus be re-
tarded.
2, Failing a successful campaign of sabotaging the elections,, the 1
desired that Liberal Party politicians remain in power, since Liberal
Party maladministration is accelerating the course of the Philippine
Communist revolution, according to the t1iIB theorist.
The desire to keep a corrupt government temporarily in
power is be...ieved to be customary among Communists who are seeking a
national revolution. Aside from the question of the relative honesty
or competence of Liberal and Nacionalista Party politicians, it is
noteworthy that the comparatively clean 1951 elections rthich bolstered
public morale probably had a significant harmful effect on the LIMBO
The failure of the HUB to succeed in sabotaging the elections, as
PUB plans and orders previously had emphasized strongly, suggests
that over-alb. HUB capabilities may be low. t.hile the alertness of
the Armed Forces of the Philippines (HFP) undoubtedly hampered HUB
election plan.', this fact should not result in lowered &8 morale
and confidence.
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ments throughout the country in the month F--
precedixr~, the 13 November
elections. In these reports it was suggested that assistance given
to 140 election plans by irresponsible Liberals and Nacionalistas
would result in a more favorable climate for OFpropaganda and re-
cruitment and a lowering of anti-Communist resistance in the Philip-
pines. In the latter report, it was also suggested that if Govern-
ment efforts to frustrate HO election plans were successful, hard-
dated 10 October 1951 which was prepared by Philippine military Intel-
ligence Service officials of probable political, and militar
clevelo
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pressed forces in Luzon may order the elements in Mindanao to
begin a campaign of open resistance.
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