S-E-C-R-E-T NO FOREIGN DISSE = J = CS-311/02108-64 , @) The Party's Internal Situation 1) Strength, leaders (data on leaders), 2) Disputes. f) The Party's relations with other leftist elemerts. . With V.A.N. i) Disputes, | 2) Possibilities of Unity. Their work with mass organizations. g) Official Agitation policy of the Party. h) [ts position as to the unity of the Central American Parties, regarding the development | of guerrilla action. i} Their work on Solidarity with Cuba. i! j) Propaganda media. k) Party finances - source of their finances. 1) Establishment of periodic and permanent contact with the Communist Party of Panama, IMPORTANT 12. PANAMA'S INTERNAL POLITICS. a) b) ©). “ on Cuba. Leaders. Fraternal Sccret Organizations. d) e) f) Bourgeois Political parties, composition, strength, propaganda media, leaders, biographic data on leaders, programs, internal dissensions, and their position concerning the Canal Zone. Relations of bourgeois political parties with . North American monopolies, with the American Embassy, Canal authorities, and the church. Anti-Communist campaigns. Their posture ~ attacks Relations with the Panamanian Government and the "Yankee" Embassy. Bourgeois political parties’ relations with Armed Forces. . . Bourgeois politicians who have supported popular - demonstrations against the Canal Zone. Date on these politicians. Thelma King. Biographic data, past activities, and contacts. S-E-C-R-E-T - NO FOREIGN DISSEM
14-00000 13. 14, is. S-E-~C-R-E-T NO POREIGN DISSEM - 8 = CS$-311 -O2108-34 ARMED FORCES INTERNAL SITUATION, a) Armed Forces: Structure. corps, equipment, strength, corps organization, principal barracks or camps. b) Data on military realers and their activities. 4 c) Coup d'état groups within the Armed Forces. d) Military relations with other Latin American countries. 4 e) Ideological indoctrination of the Armed Forces. Program postures and media, f) Data on Panamanian Military figures in international organizations U.N., Inter-American Defense Board), military attachés in and from Latin American countries. g) Plans for counter-insurgency training. h) Armed Forces relations with the Church. THE CHURCH, ' a) Ecclesiastical Hierarchy. b) Position and controversies between foreign and national clergy. ss ec) Participation of the Church in internal politics. d) The Church's secular organizations (i.e. Catholic Working Vouth). e) The Church's campaign ayainst Cula. f) The Church's penetration of peasants, workers, and. students. g) The Church's relations with Canal Zone Authorities. h) Inter-relationships between plans of the Church and the U.S.A. . . i) The Church's relations with the Panamanian Government. j) Influence of the Church on education. af FUNCTIONS, CHARACTERISTICS, AND DATA ON MEVPERS OF TEE POSEIGN SERVICE AND THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS ACCREDITED TO THE COUNTEY. a) UN. b) OAS, Inter-American Defense Board. S-E-C-K-E-T NO FOREIGN DISSEM
16. 17. -NECESSARY S-E-C-R-E-T Sg NO FOREIGN DISSEM *. € =~ 9 = CS-311/02108-64 c) Panamanian officials in Latin American countries; Latin American officials in Panama. @d) Information obtained in diplomatic circles regarding the internal life. of the country. ‘e). Dispatching of official documents, seals, signatures, we ete. THE PRESS. a) Data on journalists and diffusion media in Panama. b) Possibilities of using these journalists within ‘the . @ountry and abroad. STRUCTURE OF GOVERNMENT AND ORGANIZATIONAL FUNCTIONS. a) Relations tutween’the Executive and the Ministries. b) The function of Congress, its most outstanding figuree. Relations with the "Yankee" Emtassy, the North American monopolies, and the canal authorities. c) Data on the closest collaborators of R. Chiari. G) The Judicial Power. Personalities occupying high positions. Important laws. Repressive laws. Relations of the Judicial branch with other branches of the government. @) Other governmental organs - their functions. f) The necessity of recruiting collaborators to gather information on these issues. SPOTTING OF COLLABORATORS TO INFORM ON THE NATIONAL ECONOMY, a) New economic policy of United Fruit. b) North American investments, c) Position of Panama regaiiding Céntral American economic integration. S-E-C-R-E-T NO FOREIGN DISSEM