CIA'S DULLES TELLS OF NEW RED TACTICS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000100130067-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 3, 2000
• Sequence Number: 67
• Publication Date: September 2, 1956
• Content Type: NSPR

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CIA's Dulles
Tells of New
Red Tactics
y SAM FOGG
CPYFNGTON, Sept. 1 (INS).
warned Saturday that Italy,
France and Indonesia are the
main targets of new Communist
infiltration tactics devised by the
Kremlin.
Allen W. Dulles, director of the
super-secret Central Intelligence
Agency, described the new Red
strategy as being that of "parlia-
mentary conquest" in which the
Reds try to infiltrate and take
over legislative systems of free
world nations.
His views were made public by
the House Un-American Activities
Committee which is conducting a
study of new Soviet cold war
DULLFS, IN a statement sub-
mitted to the committee, said the
new Kremlin policy was spelled
out by communist boss Nikita S.
Khrushchev in a speech before
the 20th Party Congress in Mos-
cow.
The CIA director quoted
Khrushchev's remarks and said:
`Translated Into a little less
flamboyant language, t 1118
means that the Communists
propose to infiltrate our free
legislative systems, to take over
our parliamentary governments
and use the freedom which our
system of government gives to
destroy all vestiges of that
September, 1955, and they have
a representation of 39 members
or 15 percent of the total of the
mist Party received six million
votes or 17 percent of the total
electorate In the elections of
"1_n Indonesia, the Commu- 1 for omm
IN PINPOINTING the s tua-
lion, Dulles said:
"In the Italian parlianienr of
590 members, there are now 143
Communist members. To these The CIA chief reported tat
must be added 75 Nonni fellow- while 35 countries have out la ed
traveling eft-wing Socialists or a the Communist Party, rank- nd-
total of 218 who consistently Note file members work through in-
and act with the Communists. !derground channels, and he dd-
Together, in the last election in ed that in areas such as Si ga-
1953, their total popular vote was pore, Communist-'influenced par-
nine and a half millions or 35.5 [ties have an Important post ion
percent of the total. ~ and serve as effective vchi les
el -mist activity."
Dulles also noted that a re- design, which omerwise ~, a u
vent Indonesian government "per- threaten to wreck the free i sti-
rnitted Communist influence to tutions of lnany countries and I
reach far into the Ministry of even endaner our own."
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"The Kremlin lea
us what they prod erse have
is up to the leaders of the ree
world, working together as a lies
and friends, to help to uncover
and to frustrate this Comm ist