D) INTENSIFICATION AND REORGANIZATION OF INTERNATIONAL COMMUNIST FRONT ORGANIZATIONS

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d) Intensification and reorganization
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Communist Front or anizationa
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Formally started at Moscow November 1957
Co
ngs as a corollary to better coordination of
Put fuel in to broaden.
Soviet " eeace" cairn: ai and to capture ieaderp
n Af ro Aeian
lida
Moyea nt aims at women, students, trade unionists,
at youth, economists, politicians).
At Moscow Novembe
1957
ins Soviets said
nsitive source) they would become more
themselves in peace c!LnMIjn. Presumably 1958
and 1959 Soviet "Summitry" is art of this tactic.
reating regional coordination
centers to increase efficiency of fronts in and
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developed countries, *.Sr. , Middle East; Cairo
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Secretariat of Afro-Asian Solidarity Council
(development delayed due to fluidity of political
situation)? Latin .America: Buenos Aires Coordinating
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Commit ?ram, established to broaden "peace" activities
-..erica, Far East. Chinese Communist Part
International front activities, particularly in
increasingly provided training and financial support
labor and peace fields. E. S. , in July 1958 sixty-five
(63) selected front activists (both CP na beers and
follow travelers) returned to Jagaanfrom functional training
in China. In Thailand a small group of Thai. front
activists returned from China about the same time.
In 1957 about forty-ones million yen (about $120,.000)
known to have been transmitted from China to ,3a pan
for front activities. .Actual figure probably higher.
The Japan. CP in 1957 is known to have received
only about seven (7) million yen ($19, 600).
Outlook: In some underdeveloped areas, international
and national, e. g. , Far East, front activity will
continue to be more important than CP activity
prop
r, as regards pressure for pro -Bloc orientation.
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CP's in general will take at
nger hand is
directing and building up lc c l..front .
Eu , where Communists on defensive, fronts
less effective, World Peace CouncLl e. S.
be increasingly used to support fronts in underdeveloped
tn.
t+e rnational
. , 7th
props
ion shows, but irtdicatio;
o%rietts will be satisfied with smaller but better
motivated attendance.
Bulk of Soviet Bloc subsidies to international fronts
ppuars to be deployed in order to
strengthen service function,
achola rship
am* for youth and students; educational and
organizational travel outside and within the Bloc
recreational and medical facilities (TB sanatoriums,
clinics, etc. ); refugee
affs ot'internationaiFront organizations
orld Youth restival) still important as
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publications and propaganda materials,
engthen support given to non-Communist
"national liberation movements" (e. g. , the
Cameroon Democratic Union, instigator o1 v
in the French Came roons received L 12, NO in late
195$ from China via the Afro-Asian Solidarity Council),
cutbacks in the budgets of some International Front
affiliates (Italian Peace Partisans) have been noted.
the other hand, International Fronts are urging
affiliates to improve their fund raising techniques
astern Europe--fronts less a feective--efficiency
ganiaations (WFTU, WPC) as well as in uttional
and to increase their aia t+ Lance support (bilateral.
t and eacch
gas) mainly to increase their
nclal efficiency.
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towards "le aliaation'' of outlawed CPa is a prime
Bloc objective in the current period. The reason:
ion that established national bourgeois leaders
such as NAS1 in Egypt, SUKA,RNO in lndon
Mohamed V in Morocco are
true neutrality in the internationa
are increasingly
concerned over the development of Communist influence
their countries. If Communist parties can gain
legal status now, particularly (as in the case tofIraq,
Venezuela, and Cuba) during the period before a new government
has stabilized its control over the country, security counter-
measures against them will be much more difficult for
these governments to initiate. In countries such as Greece,
the, campaigns for legalization, even when unsuccessful,
have made
local governments as fascistic, dem advocates
possible for the Party and its allies to condemn
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La, and
ovine toward
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The Soviet Subversive offensive
The International Communist movement
nd, to certain extent, Chinese Communist Parties,
ommunl 6t partie ^
be cause most !;P 'a in free Europe on defensive.
coordinated ro g ram for strengthening subversion pott
of Co
Main reason for this program;
Soviet confidence in long-term strength, viability and appeal
t system and intent to increase internal
ures akbr
feasible.
Example s:
scent attack on Nehru by Soviet A
or to C hina
Yndin, in issue #4 of 'World Marxist Review, and increasing militancy
of CP India. Soviet lecturers
reason behind pressure:
Conservative wing of Congress Party bankrupt.
b) Pressure by Arab CP's for loosening of UAR ties (Syrita-
Egypt) and resistance to extension of UAR to include other Arab
areas (Iraq).
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c) Latin American C P's were instructed at secret meeting
Moscow November 1957 to enco,
xploit anti -
US attitudes, overtly and covertly. Have implemented
1957 directives faithful
. New instructions will be
given Latin American CP delegates at Zlet Con gress of
C !SU (January 1958).
. Main burden of p
`ram for strengthening CF's
CP. CP Chinese, however, has become increasingly active In supporting
Latin American CP's. Program consists of:
Lining of current and future CP leaders in Soviet Union
and China. We have identified, throe h sensitive -penetration
operations location, curricula, teachers of some of these
training schools in USSR and China. Training takes place
Fligher Part School of CPSU but secret training facilities
for training of n~qnaiity groups also exist. In China one
training facility operated by CP China IS hoer Department
for liaison with Latin am,erica. Curricula mainly political-
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Ideological. Definite indication from 1955-
received--of
igence tradecraft train:
foreign students in one party school. One returnee from
Chinese CP training school reports instvucbaon on
ion, of domestic security
In 1957/195B train
telligence organizatons.
eon. more than tw.nt
.d CP'e sent trainees to USSR. In 1968 foreign
reportedly outnumbered Soviet students at CPSU
Higher party School. In summer 1958, five CP's from
Latin America sent trainees to China.
b) Improved( clandestine) machinery for control, sport
and coordination of international Communist movement
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Machinery and procedure i jpy
go of
Communist leaders, Moscow. November 1957 (40th
'y of Bolshevik Revolution).
CPStL',- Foreign Section (International Ds rtmen9:) under
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~~ewwyK.K
E V was already strengthened during 1957.
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Boris PONO
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Section' is executive arm of Soviet Presidium in monitoring
foreign CP's. Geographic breakdown (area desks) and
many functionaries identified by us. In general Section
less dictatorial and more inclined to listen to
advice of foreign CP leaders. Still short of first-rate
personnel. Other machinery includes:
plenary meetings of free world CP leaders
at Zlst CPSU Congress);
regional meetings of CP leaders (e. g. , secret
southern regions in 1958);
stone of Latin American CP's of northern and
ad contact of CP leaders with Soviet
Embassies abroad (e. g. , Soviet Ambassadors
briefed CP leaders on Malenkov/Molotov purge
(July 1957) prior to public announcement; similarly
advised some CP leaders not to send delegates to
7th Yugoblav Party Congress; in many cases Soviet
Embassies arrange for travel to training schools
in USSR and China; new secret communication
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ilities between CPes in neighboring areas and
t Embassy in /j
increased ideological indoctrination through
issuance of Cominform successor World Marxist
Review ()Probleexns of Peace and Soci.alism.), published
Prague in 16 languages. Staff of
'xiat
(WMR) includes many area experts from
free world. `felt pretends not to give directives.
Note that PONOMAREV.-head of Foreign Section--
writes directive articles in Soviet KOMMUNEST.
Bans of indoctrination include functional
CP
tinge of/propaga
ter union
country observed. )
a and historians
Tonal basis. (+e. g. ? in October 1958 eleven
CP's represented at meetings in Grams4ti_ institute
of CP It
review and c
fl. (+e. g. in I
Soviet Party delegation went to Italy prior to
elections; another delegation reviewed the East
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an CP; delegations went to Japan, Denmark,
etc. Soviet propaganda specialists went ostensibly
to Argentina for Frondizi's i ,uguration and from
there to
facilit
s travel.
ct that some Soviet
uss to be part of the over-all build-up pro
Able, sensitive information indicates that at a
special conference of Latin American C? delegates
scheduled for Moscow, January 1959. in conjunction with
the 2lst CPSU Congress, methods of financing or other-
supporting Communist PArties will be discussed.
To date, these CPs have been supported mainly through
provision of funds for travel (training, etc.) and holding
of Commun
A recent investigation of the
subssidinaatien of C? Japan reveals that from the USSR alone
about $700, 000 was known to have been received between
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1911 and 195$. In 195$ C? Japan is known to have
d Only about $21, 000 from the USSR.. Between
19:51 and 1958, C P Japan rec eiv td $150, 000 from China..
In ',195$, about $38, 000 are known to have been received
from China, the bulk of which was ha "carried secretly
f roan China.
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