Secretariat to the International Department. Military training for 20 individuals from Argentina; 5 from Panama; 5 from Nicaragua; and 13 from Costa Rica (7 pp). [R 31 January 1974, St 112-28]
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No. ST 112/28 GS from: 31.1.1976 [date unclear] TOP SECRET
[meaning of letters unclear] SPECIAL FILE
Resolution
By the Secretariat of the CC [Central Committee] of the Communist Party of the Soviet
Union [CPSU]
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Issue concerning the Department of Foreign Affairs of the CC CPSU
- To grant the petitions by the leaders of the Communist Party of Argentina, the People’s Party of Panama, Nicaragua’s socialist party, and Costa Rica’s People’s Vanguard Party, to receive in the USSR in the course of the years 1974-5 twenty Argentinean, five Panamanian, five Nicaraguan and thirteen Costa-Rican communists for the purpose of completing a course in general combat training lasting up to six months.
- To entrust the reception, accommodation, financial support, and organization of instruction for the representatives of Argentina’s Communist Party, Panama’s People’s Party, Nicaragua’s socialist party, and the party of the People’s
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Vanguard of Costa Rica, as well as the financing, in foreign currency, of travel costs for twenty Argentinean comrades from Buenos Aires to Moscow and back, five Panamanian comrades from Panama to Moscow and back, five Nicaraguan comrades from Managua to Moscow and back, and thirteen Costa Rican comrades from San Jose to Moscow and back, to the Ministry of Defense of the USSR.
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AN ISSUE FOR THE INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT OF THE CC CPSU
The leadership of the Communist Party of Argentina, People’s Party of Panama, Nicaragua’s socialist party, and the People’s Vanguard of Costa Rica has petitioned the CC CPSU to receive in the USSR in the years 1974-5, for the purpose of combat training, 20 persons from the CP Argentina, 5 persons from PP Panama, 5 persons from Nicaragua’s SP, and 13 persons from the PV Costa Rica (petitions included).
The Argentinean, Panamanian, Nicaraguan, and Costa Rican comrades ask us to organize for their representatives a course in combat training of the general type of up to six months in duration.
We consider it expedient to grant the petitions of the leadership of the CP Argentina, PP Panama, Nicaragua’s SP, and PV Costa Rica. The reception, accommodation, financial support, and organization of instruction for the representatives of Argentina’s Communist Party, Panama’s People’s Party, Nicaragua’s socialist party, and the party of the People’s Vanguard of Costa Rica, as well as the financing, in foreign currency, of travel costs for twenty Argentinean comrades from Buenos Aires to Moscow and back, five Panamanian comrades from Panama to Moscow and back, five Nicaraguan comrades from Managua to Moscow and back, and thirteen Costa Rican comrades from San Jose to Moscow and back, can be entrusted to the Ministry of Defense of the USSR. The issue has been cleared with the Ministry of Defense (comrade Ivashutin).
Plans on the resolution of the CC CPSU are included.
Deputy Head of the Department of International Affairs CC CPSU [signature] E. Kuskov 29 January 1974
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To the Central Committee of the CPSU Esteemed Comrades!
We turn to you with a petition to receive, in the course of the years 1974-5, 20 of our comrades for a course of study of “Russian Language”. [Quotation marks included in original document]
With gratitude for your inestimable help,
Orestes Ghioldi,
Secretary of the CC of the Communist Party of Argentina
Translated by [name unclear] [END PAGE 4]
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Translated from Spanish [Most likely; exact words illegible] People’s Party of Panama
[Illegible word] CC [Central Committee]
To the Central Committee
Of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union [CPSU]
Esteemed Comrades,
[Unclear adverb – possibly “Presently”] I ask you to receive in the Soviet Union, in the course of the years 1974-75, 5 of our comrades for the purpose of completing a course in battle and combat training.
My deepest gratitude for your acquiescence to the given petition.
Moscow, 23 November 1973.
Translated by: [Signature of translator] A. Mineev name uncertain.]
[This page is mostly illegible; the translated text is inferred. The format appears to be the same as the other handwritten letters, so this is most likely the Nicaraguan note corresponding to similar ones from the other three countries.]
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Translated from Spanish
To the Central Committee of the CPSU Esteemed Comrades!
On behalf of [word] the Central Committee of Nicoragua’s Socialist Party, we appeal to you […] five
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Moscow, January 1974 Translation by [unclear]
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Translation from Spanish
To the Central Committee [CC] of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Esteemed comrades,
In accordance with instructions from the Central Committee of the People’s Vanguard Party [PVP] of Costa Rica, I am petitioning you to receive in the years 1974-75 in the Soviet Union 12 of comrades for the purpose of completing a course in combat training. We will include the nature of the specialization of the aforementioned comrades’ training in our reports that also communicate both our needs and your decision. In addition to this, we also ask that you receive one more of our comrades for combat training.
We thank you in advance for your attention to this petition, and express a deep appreciation for the aid you have already provided to our concerns in the given subject area. [Text is just as ambiguous in Russian.]
With Communist salutations,
Humberto Vargas Carbonell Member of [unclear] and Secretary of the CC of PVP of Costa Rica
Moscow, 4 December 1973
Translation by: [Name unclear] [END PAGE 7]
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