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# INFORMATION REPORT INFORMATION REPORTCENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCYThis material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title 18, U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.S-E-C-R-E-TCOUNTRY MexicoREPORT NO. CS-311/14014-66SUBJECT Eighth Regional Congress of theUnion of Local Societies of CollectiveFarm Credit 40-66 in Torreon, CoahuilaDATE DISTR. 18 October 1966NO. PAGES 2REFERENCESDATE OF 19-21 August 1966INFO.PLACE & Mexico, Nuevo Leon, MonterreyDATE ACQ (7 September 1966)FIELD REPORT NO. HMY-1267THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVESOURCE: Medium-level member of the Mexican Communist Party in the Laguna areawhose Party position requires attendance at policy-making meetings.His reporting on Communist activities has been reliable.1. On 19-21 August 1966 the Union of Local Societies of Collective Farm   Credit 40-66 (USCE 40-66 - Union de Sociedades de Credito Ejidal 40-66),   a Mexican Communist Party (PCM - Partido Comunista Mexicano) peasant   front, held ito 8th Regional Congress at the USCE 40-66 headquarters   in Torreon, Coahuila, with an attendance of 800 to 1,000 people. Every   state in Mexico was represented. The meeting was presided over by Arturo Orona   Gamez, member of the PCM Central Committee and Secretary for Peasant   Affairs of the PCM Coahuila State Committee, and Ramon Danzos Palomino,   also a member of the PCM Central Committee and head of the Independent   Peasants' Central (CCI - Central Campesina Independiente), another PCM   controlled group in the Laguna area. In addition to these two who spoke,   the speakers were Arnoldo Martinez Verdugo, First Secretary of the   PCM Central Committee, and Agustin Borrel Gomez, Secretary of Organiza-   tion of the PCM Coahuila State Committee, Conspicuous by their absence   were Antonio Morin Rodriguez, member of the PCM Presidium with special   interest in PCM political affairs in the Laguna area, and Juan de los   Reyes, member of the PCM Central Committee who lives in the Torreon   area. The main theme of the Congreso was the aim of the USCE 40-66 to   promote the nationalization of all privately held agricultural land in   the Laguna area. It wants to divide all land in the Laguna area into   communal farms and completely do away with small private land holding.   Martinez said that the Mexican Government was trying to plot against the   PCM and gave as an example the 12-13 August 1966 arrest of Victor Rico   Golen and some 40 others of the Popular Revolutionary Movement (MRP-Movimiento   Revolucionario del Pueblo). He said that the PCM did not espouse the   armed revolutionary policies of Galen, and that the Party was pacifist.[^1]S-E-C-R-E-T| STATE                                       | DIA | ARMY | NAVY | AIR | MSA | AID  | OCR    || ------------------------------------------- | --- | ---- | ---- | --- | --- | ---- | ------ || CINCSO #                                    |     |      |      |     |     | USIA | FBI #3 || (Note: field distribution indicated by "X") |     |      |      |     |     |      | I&NS   |INFORMATION REPORT| CI/ICG    | 1/WH/R                                     | 1   || --------- | ------------------------------------------ | --- || CI/OIS/WH | 1/WH/1                                     | 10  || CA/INT    | 1/WH/MATY                                  | 1   || CA/PROP   | 1/WH/MEXI                                  | 6   || CA/B      | 1/WH/FACY                                  |     || TOTAL:    | IE 2, CI 4, FI 3, CA 3, WH 11 (1), DO/H 1. |     |INFORMATION REPORT|                 | 1047-1267 || --------------- | --------- || LIRULE          |           || (LIRULE-1)      |           || CS-311/14014-66 |           |LIAISONMKCMD. POH:H[^1]: 1