JUST ANOTHER POLITICAL PARTY?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000100130060-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 3, 2000
• Sequence Number: 60
• Publication Date: September 5, 1956
• Content Type: NSPR

SEP5 1956
HOLYOKE (Mass.)
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CPYRGHT
ust Another Political Party?
Do the Communists just natu-I the Communists make no se-
a11y prefer to do things the Bret of their interest in gaining
and way? There is no reason to political power through regular
hink so. Khrushchev and Bul-
anin have lately been going political channels. They are skill-
bout their regular Russian bus- ed at using the freedoms of par
ness in a Dale Carnegie sort of ~ liamentary government for its
ay-and why not, if it works? own destruction.. Although they
The warning recently issued have never been voted into a ma-
y Allen W. Dulles, head of tb jority position, Dulles ? warns
entral Intelligence Agency, em that it is also tr4e, that the Com-
?. ` hasizes tea o~'~peaob- munist has move! fo' without hav-
1" penetration tactics are Ii?td- ing a majority status" in some
g the guard down in many countries.
ountries on the political front. This is a slow r y to g6 about
hen fear of the Reds dies gaining territory and not, for the
own, they can make consider- Reds, the easiest. The claim of
le parliamentary gains. Ole other Mr. th 1les, the,Secre-
In Italy, France and Indone- try of State, is that our foreign
a the Communists are again tolicy has driven the Russians to
aking headway in pa.rliamen- use respectable methods tp gain
representation. Dulles told their ends. How easy this( is for
.e House Committee on Un-Am= them depends entirely on howl
scan Activities that the situa- successful they are in con*ncingI
!t on is beginning to get serious': people: they are "just mother;
he Reds have 43 members in political ? party," that Russia is
e Italian parli eat of 590, and just another country with arms
c get the?#uppor of 75 fellow- and steel for sale, and trl'mt th
avel.ingditist ialists. In Soviets are better friends to
ance, the Reds hake. about 150 have than the nations bf the
i ix the Parliament of 800 depu- West.
Lt es. s They have found it pretty easy I
11 . Last fall the Communists got to do this in countries where
1 per cent of the vote in In- ?the West is distrusted as iin peri-
nesia - they have 39 members alist, and in countries where
the Assembly. the fear of war is still dominant,
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