COMMUNIST PARTY OF CHILE (PCCH) DECISIONS

Created: 9/6/1974

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A RESULT OF THE RECENT UPSURGE IN REPRESSION Of LEFT..TmE HIERARCHY OF THE pcch HAS OECIDEO TO GO HIDING THROUGHOUT HOST OF THE POLITICALTHE PCCH HAS SUSPENDED ALL PARTY MEETINGS, AND ACTIVITIES

FOR THAT PERIOQI HOWEVER, PARTY LEAOERS HAVE NO INTENTION OF SEEKING ASYLUM IN LOCAL EMBASSIES OR OF FLEEING ABROAD.

LEAOERS HAVE REVISED jTHEJfi OPINION OF THE EFFICIENCY

OF THE^SECURITY SERVICES. WHICH 'THEY VIEW AS INCREASINGLY BETTER

ORGANUEO AND EFFECTIVE. THEY NOTE THAT The! PREVIOUS PATTERN

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OF HIDE-SCALE ROUNDUPS OF SUSPECTS HAS BEEN REPLACED BY HIGHLY

SELECTIVE STRIKES AGAINST IMPORTANT PCCH LEADERS. THEY ALSO

NOTE THAT MORE EFFECTIVE INTERROGATIONS ARE BEING CONDUCTED.

BASED ON GOOD KNOWLEDGE OF THE PCCH MEMBERS ARRESTED,

LEADERS STATE THAT THEY HAVE INFORMATION THAT MANY

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Of THE INTERROGATIONSBEING CONDUCTED UTHLESSBYARGENTINE ADVISORS TO THE CHtLEAN SERVICES, MAINTAIN THAT EHlLlO ,EHBERENTRAL COMMITTEE. DIEDS, ANOTHER CENTRAL COMMITTEE MEMBER WHO MAS ARRESTED IN EARLTM ROJO. IS IN CRITICAL CONDITION.

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ECENT ARTICLE IM THE "MASHINGTON POST", SANTIAGO CORRESPONDENT I REPORTED THAT TWO MEN IN BUIN. PROVINCE OP SANTIAGO. HAD BEEN ARRESTED AND SUMHARtLY

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EARLY HORNING HOURS9 AUGUST, DR. JUAN YH0AHTHI2ER OP THE MOVEMENT OPREVOLUTIONART LETT I Z (PNU).EMBER OPPCCHI AND TWO MEN IN BUINTAKEN rROM THEIR SHOT, THEIR BODIES DROPPED

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fflCsT OrWITHIN AHOURS. IMILAR MANNER

IN THE PASTOATS. SEVERAL MEDIUM LEVEL LEAOERS OrSOCIALIST

PARTY (PS) AND THE HJR HAVE AND EXECUTED. INCLUDING

"SEREGa", PS SECRETARY OF ThE NORTHERN REGIONAL COMMITTEE,

THE WORD CIRCULATING IN LEPTIST CIRCLES IS THAT THE MILITARY

HAS DECIDED AGAINST TAXING HOPE PRISONERS.

C. WHILE IT IS KNOWN THAT THE SECURITY SERVICES HAVE BEEN

SENDING OrriCERS TO BRAZIL rOR INTELLIGENCE TRAINING AND THAT

BRAZILIAN OrriCERS WERE IN CHILE AS ADVISORS DURING THE FIRST

MONTHS OF THE JUNTA GOVERNMENT. THERE HAS BEEN NB RECENT TO CONFIRM THAT FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE ADVISORSWORKING IN

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OrriCERS WORKING'WITH THE LOCAL SERVICES AT IHE PRESENTTO HE WAS NOT

AWARE OF ANY IN THE SANTIAGO AREA. HE ADDED.'HOWEVER. THAT DURINGECURITY SWEEP IN THEF CHILEAN. PBOVJNCE OF NUBLE. JUST PRIOR TO THE RECENT VISITF JUNTAUGUSTOLEMENTS OF THE DIRECTORATE OP

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NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE (DINA) ARnESTED AN URUGUAYAN EXTREMIST AND EXECUTED NIH AFTER DETERMINING MIS TIES MJTM THE URUGUAYAN-NATIONAL LIBERATION MQVEMENET (MLN-TUP'HAPOS).)

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J A R A AVACA, A PCCM FUNCTIONARY NHO HAD IN OTEBOOK HITh TmE NaheS ANO IDENTITY COOES Or HIGH LEVEL PARTY LEADERS* THE SECURITY SERVICES MOUNTED an OPERATION WHICH CULMINATED WITH THE ARREST OF THE REGIONAL; COMMITTEES OF LA CALERA AND SAN FELIPE CPROVINCES NOT THE PCCH HAS NOT VET DISCOVERED WHEnY THE DETAINED REGIONAL COHHlTTEE LEADERS ARE BEING HELD.

'OF THE RECENT ARREST OF SO MANY PARTY LEADERS

HAS FORCED. THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE Tfl STUDY THE POSSIBILITY OF MOVING.SOME MEDIUM LEVEL LEADERS INTO HIGHER LEVEL PARTY WORK, THE OBJECT HQULO BE TO ENSURE THAT THE 0IRECT[ON OP THE PARTYN THE EVENT'OF ADDITIONAL ARRESTS OF THE PRESENT HIERARCHY. OVE WOULD ALSO LEAVE ThE PARTY LEADERSHIP

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THE HANDS Or Rb-rSCNS REl.AT.VELT UNKNOWN FORCES.

THE SECURITY

i.l'tN AODITtON. CENTRAL COHNlTTEE hENBERS ARE NOW

ON THE HOVE. AND HOT RETURNING TO THfi.fl HQHES AT NIGHT IN ORDER

TO AVOID CAPTURE, THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE JaS ISSUEO INSTRUCTIONS

N THE EVENT OrARREST OF ONETS MEMBERS, ALL

THOSE HHOTH HIM IH ONE FORH OR ANOTHER MUST BETORESIDENCES. CHANCE ALL MEETING

SITES AND RESTRUCTURE WHATEVER COMMISSION ORMS WOULD

BE AFFECTED.

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