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there oeaued August 15, 194e. Rowver, about the same time & larxist Purty known as the Popular Socialist Farty and endoreed by the Cu'san Communint Party (whinh has ths eane nane). ap?oared apparmtly through the offorts of thes. same.organisers. Its fomdation ms the Spanish Coamuml.st Hanuel Truebe, some 85 iatalonian Commmnist rerugeos and ll other renainin, Spanish Comunist axiles from tho larg group whioh originaily mtered the Dominioan Ropublio about i944 by paying a high prise for visasy SOUAXR U SI8 operations in Soualor ceasad n Kareh 12, 1947, with the olosing of our office ip Quito and the imzediat. with- drawal of all Bureau poracunel. XUl The Lagal Attaohe in ziito was able to keep the Ambsssador inrorrd of developments among revolutionary elemonts in Seuador. Exoopt for the roportin; of thoss politloal devolopaents, no accomnlishnents of aote took place during this poriod.XU Commmi During l94s and early 1847 the Commsunit Farty of o po y o o eq o po on in th. Hestern Hemlsphere, ceoerding to Bureau coverage olose to the. Party. It had no newspaper er propaganda nodiur and deponded on its acntrol ar Jaber for its existamos. XU During July and August, ls46, it planned uneuscessfully to overthrew the yolasco-Ibarrs Govarnment and sought liberal and loftist coalition support, although only the Libsrel-Radical tarty responded. Aor thoir pains, sereral Commist inoluding the labor In Septonbor ruors were rif. that tho 'oviot Govern- nont was nogotiating in Colombis for fishing rights in the Fcuadoran-eontrolled Galapagos Islands, but th. Eouadoran Govern- In Qotober, 1946, a reliablo Bureau informant in Nouador rovealed that the Communist Farty had oreated a sabotago plan for use in the aveit of hostilities botreon the Cnitod States and Ruasia. It was to b directed prinoipally against After sovorel dolays .. Hational Comraunist Congrecs was held in Quito Rovember 16, 1946, to perfeot an umdsrgrond Organiaation to operato imder any eventuslity and handle inter--