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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-00915R000500140015-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 25, 1998
• Sequence Number: 15
• Content Type: REPORT

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better. " He went on to say that such conferences should be attended, not
only by top CP leaders, but also by "representatives of basic organizations
and comrades working in various kinds of popular organizations and
associations- -in trade unions,. cooperatives, self-government, women's,
youth and cultural organizations. " In addition, Terracini advocated exchange
of visits between CP leaders. Di Vittorio went "so far as to say, if the need
arises, that an international conference should be convened for an eventual
exchange of ideas, but without decisions binding for all and without the
formation of any kind of permanent international organ. "
On 15 December, the Polish news service PAP revealed that a special
correspondent of Trybuna Wolnosci had interviewed Umberto Terracini and
Giuseppe Di Vittorio. Terracini stated that the delegations of ten CPs at the
8th PCI Congress had "availed themselves of the opportunity to conduct long
and fruitful conversations, which made it possible for them to mutually
exchange views concerning the most important problems of today. Thus it
seems that in the future relations between the various Communist Parties
can develop in a similar way, that is, in the form of meetings that do not
have the character of official conferences with meetings, commissions,
resolutions, and so forth. The more often these meetings take place, the
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