AFFILIATION OF SPANISH STUDENT GROUPS WITH THE INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS' UNION

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000800030010-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 2, 1999
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: August 15, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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COUNTRY Spain letter of 16 Ocro!. er Q ? IDENTIAL
Director of Ce9r; i c"f+Q.
Archivist of the U--+
SUBJECT Affi3i lord f .S aanisfa stag" Wit Group
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Anti--Franco Spanish and Catalan atudente are represented in the International
Students; Union by Co mist factions of the UM-FM (Union Federal do
Astudisntes Ispana,s-ii'asc eraascion Uaaiverasitariss Iecolar) and the !' C (Pederacion
Naci onal do Estudiaantes de Catalux . Basque students are represented by
the M of kadt, also Co et. The headquarters of these organizations
are in France. Arturo Acebes, who heads the Coiunist , is on the
sas venteen:-mo ber Arecutive Co tree of the International Students` Union,
and Spanish Republican stardents hold four seats in the Council; the U
has two seats and. the C and the ~Z of Ausakdi, one each. Two of the
delegates are Antonio Gibes, UCH, end Antonio Bamirea, FUN of Ruzkadi.
she split in the Up in Ya .ce cam &bout in the spring of 1946, at a
congress oi< the , vThaore the Communists managed to capture nine of >tza
ten posts on the directorate. none Cruz, U delegate repreeentie
the group iusids Spain, objected to the manner in which the Congress was
cunducted and denounced, the new directorates. In October 1946, a pact was
signed inside Spain by the UiNK, the C and. the Basque student orgeeai-
raation known as X ko-Il+asle-Alkartasuna. The U. i group signai:o to this
pact recognize Sarivaue Cruz as Its delegate abroad.
The ko--1kasle-Alkartaaeu a oiaaimas to represent the vast majority of
Basque students. Early in 1947 this organization protested to the
national. Studentaa Union that the P of txzkadt was not truly repress.;.. aQativtas.
According to information of mid-Junes, the Zu: ko-Tkasle-Alks,rtaeu wrio
offered a seat in the Council of the International Students' Union an-,'
was urged to join. beforo 1 Augsa,st in order to be represented at the
Council meeting scheduled to take pla`ce in Prague from 1-10 A ust.
Neither the nova-Comaan sit U.'i'~R nor the non-Communist MC had made arv
move to join the Xnterna;tional Stadente' Union.
The non-Communist WEE- J n France, composed of straight Republicans,
Socialists and Libertarian elements, is not as strong as the Comm 9,ni v'
faction, but it is the faction which was recognized by the Goverruient- .rti-
Erile, and it has been gaining strength. Reportedly, some members of
the Communist-c atrolled faction are not Communists but have remained
in that group b caress of a, disinclination to become involved in
controversies.
Class- CHAN
DD A Memo, 4 . Apr 77
A
uths DDA RSG 77/1.
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