ARREST OF MEMBERS OF URUGUAYAN FILM EXPEDTION IN BOLIVIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008900230001-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 21, 1999
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: October 23, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Uraguay/Bolivia
SUBJECT Arrest of Members of Uruguayan Film Evedition
in Bolivia
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1. A Uruguayan film expeditions representing the Compania Universal Filmioa
Exhibiciones (CUFE) of Montevideo s Uruguay entered Bolivia from Corumbas
Brazils in June 1951s and its seven t.e'ebers were arrested by Bolivian
authorities in late August 1951 at San "Ignacio de Velascos Bolivia, A
Captain Buxton s whose real name le JOBC Segundo do Lazo Toledo, was the
leader of the groups which included Felix Domingaes Margot Candelas Wilfredo
Bonilla Prottas Alberto Casas Calzadas Juan Jose Sonora, Jorge Mario Martiners
and Mario Ismael Cordonado.
? 2. The ostensible reason for their arrest was that they had been passed througl'
Bolivian customs without inspections at the insistence of the Uruguayan Coe,eil
at Corumbas Brazil, Jose Alberto du Olarte. A secret search of their luggeee
by the Bolivian police had disclosed Communist propaganda and films portrareng
? the miserable living conditions of the Indians in Bolivia. Letters were elso
found which provided evidence that the purpose of their film expedition WE to
picture Bolivian life for Communist propaganda purposes. Evidence was alto
found that they were to map the area for possible use by Brazilian Communiete
in the event of war.
The search of the expedition's baggage revealedthat its members hed been
detained by the Brazilian Security Police atPorte Uniao, State of Santa
-Catarinas.Brazils on 12 June 1951,
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indications.that the CUFF is indirectly supported by the Communists.. Lan Jose
Lopez.Silveiras an official of CUFE, is a. mell-knoee member of the C
Party of Uruguay and also a director of Ediciones Pneblos-Unidos CE1es a
Communiet publishing house in Montevideo. Carlos Beyarress a CUFEeomeraman
and a Communists was previously reported to have been assigned thr7dssiori of
traveling to Paraguay ,to interview. and obtain news-reel pictures J Obdulio
Barthes Paraguayan -Communist leader. Bayarres fa.ile in thie.aOgnmeet
because of interference by the Paraguayan police, and the local wImmuxAst.
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