PLANS TO BRING RELEASED POLITICAL PRISONERS TO COSTA RICA

Created: 12/12/1974

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HE CHILEAN EXILE COMMITTEE IK COSTA RICA HAS RECENTLY ADVISED THAT THE CHILEAN GOVERNMENT IS PREPARING TOEFTIST POLITICAL PRISONERS. OFFICIALS OF THE CONNITTEE TALKED TOEGREDA, COSTA RICAN FOREIGN MINISTER, REQUESTING PERMISSION FOR SOME OF THE POLITICAL PRISONERS TO EMI6RATE TO COSTA RICA. FACIO SAID THERE WOULDO OBJECTION TO ADMITTING PRISONERS PROVIOING THEY DID NOT CREATE SOCIAL

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OR BECOMEINANCIAL BUROEN ON the COUNTRY. BASED ON THEIR TALK MITH FACIO. COP.HITTEE OFFICIALS ESTIMATEEFTIST CHILEANS COULD BE RECEIVED IN COSTA RICA.

2. IN SELECTING theOLITICAL PRISONERS TO BE BROUGHT TO COSTA RICA the COMMITTEE DECIOED TO DIVIDE THE QUOTA EQUALLY AMONG MEMBERS OF the CHILEAN REVOLUTIONARY LEFTOCIALIST, AND COMMUNIST PARTIES. THE NAMES OF THE POLITICAL PRISONERS TO BE RELEASED, HOWEVER, ARE IN THE HANDS OF THE DIRECTORATEE CHILEAN COMMUNIST PARTY IN MOSCOW. IN ORDER TO MAKE the SELECTION, the COMMITTEE HAS REQUESTED THE COSTA RICAN COMMUNIST PARTY (PVPJ TO ACT AS AN INTERMEDIARY IN OBTAINING THE LIST OF PRISONERS VIA THE LOCAL SOVIET EMBASSY.

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THE CHILEAN GOVERNMENT HAS ALREAOYEW OFOLITICAL PRISONERS AND THE INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEES INVOLVED ARC TRYING TO FIND GOVERNMENTS WHO WILL RECEIVE THE OTHERS. SEE SANTIAGO EHBA5SY)

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