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SAC, EL PASO (105-276)

DATE:

4/9/62

FROM : SA DAVID J. RID

SUBJECT:

COMMUNIST PARTY OF MEXICO

STATE OF COAHUILA

INTERNAL SECURITY - MEXICO

IF THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION IS DISSEMINATED TO OUTSIDE

SOURCES IT MUST BE CAREFULLY SUMMARIZED AND PARAPHRASED IN ORDER TO

AVOID COMPROMISING BUREAU CONTACT AND HIS ULTIMATE SOURCES.

SA FREDERICK A, JOHNS by written rough draft from CLYDE NICHOLS,

El Paso, Texas.

Mr. NICHOLS

advised also that this information is

classified by his agency as "CONFIDENTIAL."

ELP-I-191 on March 26, 1962: C

Informant reports that on February 21, 1962 he talked with

GREGORIO RETA at the offices of the USCE in Torreon, RETA told

source that the PCM was in a very bad state of disorganization due

to police persecution and because some PCM members including JUAN

JOSE MERAZ are being held in jail. He said that practically all PCM

leaders in the Laguna area are very much afraid that they will be

arrested.

RETA told source that the Party was attempting to get a

large number of people to participate in a mass meeting to commemorate

International Women's Day on March 8, 1962. RETA asked source to attend

this meeting.

Source also talked with LUCAS RIZO on March 3, 1962 and RIZO

talked in the same vein as had RETA. LUCIO and RETA both remonstrated

with source because source has not been active in the PCM in Juarez.

The PCM is not maintaining

Source went to this

Source met JOSE LUNA and JOSEFA RODRIGUEZ at

"separate occasions.

RETA's house. (C)

On March 21, 1962 source again went to RETA's home and

while there he met two PCM members whose names he was unable to

secure and whon he doesn't remember having seen before (e)

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a member of the USCE, but that he had recently become a PCM member

together with his brothers JUAN and

at La Luz Ejido, Matamoros, Coahuila.

JESUS CONTRERAS said that the

cell there is not active because there is no one to help them.e

offices of the USCE where he is employed as a janitor.

Source met "ChuRCO" ORONA, a SOn Of ARTURO OR This Young

man resembles RODRIGO ORONA very much.

Everyone calls him "Chunco"

he is probably a half brother of RODRIGO. C

LUNA told

now in Mexico, D.F.

Source that JOSE ANTONIO MORIN from Torreon is

MARIA DE JESUS MENDEZ has been in Torreon in an effort to

secure medical treatment there: She returned to Juarez about March 14.

1962 (C)

Source talked with DEMETRIO LUNA who told him his brothers'

names are IGNACIO and ANSELMO

uN hem live at Vega Larga Ejido.C

In a conversation with JOSE LUNA

and RUPERTO PEREYRA, LUNA

said that the USCE is not helping the PCMat the present time, that in

a recent month the USCE had received from 25,000 to 28,000 pesos and

had given only 28 pesos to the PCM. He said that at the Congress of

the, USCE which is to be held about the middle of May, 1962 ALBERTO.:

DEL LOERA, JESUS CAUDILLO, EULALIONGARCIA, J. ENCARNACION CHAVIRA, and

ARTURO ORONA, all PCM members who are in

posts in the directorate of the

USCE, will be removed from these posts and will be replaced by PCM

members who will work more to the benefit of the Party.

that the new directorate will include JOSE VIESCA, and CARLOS SIMENEZ. {C

Source believes that the members of the PCM State Committee

are:

GREGORIO, RODRIGUEZ-RETA

MANUEL AMAYA Y

MARTIN GUERRA

MANUEL KAURUA

ANTONIO DE LA

RUZ

and the Municipal Committee is made up of:

RUPERTO PEREYRA

ENRIQUE AGUILERA

JOSEFA RODRIGUEZ, and others.

Source states that there is no organized activity of the

Communist Party in Francisco I. Madero at this time.

The PCM previously

maintained an office in a building compadr enter of town, which is owned

by TRINIDAD LNU, also known as "El

who operates the "Las

Golondrinas" Store in Francisco. I. Madero.

ÉDUARDO GARCIA, "La Negra"

was in charge of the PCM there.

Almost every Liido in the Francisco 1.

Madero area had its PCM Cell, but there is no activity at all there nowl

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