SECRETARIAT to INTERNATIONAL DEPARTMENT. Military training for 43 Party members: Argentinian (20), Panamanian (5), Nicaraguan (5) and Costa Rican (13). Resolution and translated requests (pp. 4-7) [R: 31 January 1974, St 112-28]. 7 pp.
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No. St 112/28 GS, 31 January 1974
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SPECIAL FILE
RESOLUTION
of the Secretariat of the CPSU Central Committee
Issue concerning the Central Committee’s International Department
- 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 1974-1975 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 /…
(See continuation)
Voting Results
[3 illegible signatures] [Fill-in form]
Sent to Comrades Grechko and Ponomaryov
31 January 1974
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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 USSR Ministry of Defense.
[Three illegible signatures]
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SPECIAL FILE
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To the CPSU Central Committee
An issue for the Central Committee’s International Department
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 CPSU Central Committee to receive in the USSR in the years 1974-1975, 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 USSR Ministry of Defense. 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
[signature] E. Kuskov
29 January 1974, No. 25-S-188
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Translated from Spanish
To the CPSU Central Committee
Esteemed Comrades!
We turn to you with a petition to receive, in the course of the years 1974-1975, 20 of our comrades for a course of study of “Russian Language”.
With gratitude for your inestimable help,
Orestes Ghioldi,
Central Committee Secretary of the Communist Party of Argentina
Translated by [name unclear]
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Translated from Spanish [Most likely; exact words illegible] People’s Party of Panama
[Illegible word] CC [Central Committee]
To the CPSU Central Committee
Esteemed Comrades,
[Unclear adverb – possibly “Presently”] I ask you to receive in the Soviet Union, in the course of the years 1974-1975, five 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. Mineyev.]
[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 CPSU Central Committee
Esteemed Comrades!
On behalf of [word] the Central Committee of Nicoragua’s Socialist Party, we appeal to you […] five
[The rest unclear]
Moscow, January 1974
Translation by [unclear]
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Translation from Spanish
To the CPSU Central Committee
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 Central Committee Secretary of the Costa Rica PVP
Moscow, 4 December 1973
Translation by: [Name unclear]
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NOTES
Translator’s comments in brackets; handwritten text is in italic.
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