INFORMATION REPORT, A YOUNG CUBAN EXILE WHO HAS BEEN TRAINED IN INFORMATION COLLECTION.
Agency: CIA
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Document date: 6/1/65
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Comments of Otto Boye:, Foreign

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National E:ecutive Committee of

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A young Cuban exile who has been trained in information collection.

His past reporting has been accurate but lacks depth. This

information was obtained from a member of the MDC.

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On 8 April 1965, Otto Boye, foreign relations Sere Hort the

Chilean Christian Democratic Party,

arrived in

for a one-day interview with members of the national

executive

committee of the Movimiento Democrata Cristiano (MDC, Christian

Democratic Movement)•

Juan Manuel Salvat Roque,

leader of the

Directorio Revolucionario Estudlantil (DiE, Students" Revolutionary

Directorate), was present for the interview.

than 30 days touring Central American countries in

effort to make direct contact with Christian Democratic Parties

in that area.

After his introduction, Boye. briefly described the history of

the Chilean Party from

the day it was founded 30 years ago until

its rise to power in 1964 with the election to the presidency of

Eduardo Frele

During the course of the interview, Boye: entertained polite but

energetic questions from various members of the MDC.

When he was

asked why President Fred wanted to have commercial relations with

the Communist countries, Boye

attempted to explain that the

decision was not based on ideology but on economics.

chile has a great need for hard currency and that if the United

States can maintain commercial relations with the Communist

countries, why can Chile not do so also.

One of the MDC members

remarked that by going to such an extreme, the Chileaus vere

behavirg like "Englishmen,

and that it was immoral to establish

relations based on such excuses.

then asked if he believed in the solidarity of

• Christian democracy.

He said. that he did but added that to

him the solidarity of Christian democracy in Latin America was

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nore important..

When he was asked when the MDC could expect

from chile,

Boye: explained that the Chilean Government

could not give such aid because of international agreemente

with other nattons, but that the Chilean Christian Democratio

Party could provide this help.

He said that this would be a

matter to be discussed by the leaders of both the Chilean and

Cuban Christian lemocratic Parties.

Boye: concluded by prociniming that the United States approved

of all the social reforms undertaken by Chile, and that Chile

i. In the end would help the Cuban exiles..

Meanwhile, however, the

most important thing to do was to establish intimate relation

between the two parties.

Boyer gave the impression that the

chilean Party was concerning itself deeply with the problems

of the Cuban Party and wanted to cooperate in the liberation

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