(SANITIZED)WORLD COMMUNIST AFFAIRS(SANITIZED)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-03061A000400010017-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 28, 2012
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: September 26, 1966
• Content Type: REPORT

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SIgnifIcant Dates
[ASTERISK denotes ANNIVERSARIES. All others are CURRENT EVENTS]
NOV
I* Hungarian Revolt (1-4). 1956. TENTH ANNIVERSARY.
4* Greek Civil War ends with Communists acknowledging defeat. 1949.
7* Bolshevik October Revolution. 1917.
9* Cambodia declares independence from France. 1953.
10* Communist World Youth Day celebrates founding of WFDY. 1945.
11 Communist International Student Week celebrated by IUS (11-17).
12* Sun Yat-sen, first President China, born. 1866. IOOth ANNIVERSARY. (Dies
12 March 1925).
12 International Conf. on War-Danger and Disarmament. Sponsored by All India
Peace Council, Indian Assoc. for Afro-Asian Solidarity, and World Peace
Council (communist). 12-19 Nov in New Delhi.
14* (Unequal) Treaty of Peking cedes Chinese "Great Northeast" to Russia. 1860.
14* Jawaharlal Nehru born. 1889.
15* Bolsheviks proclaim "Declaration of the R.a)ghts of the Peoples of Russia"
affirming principle of sel'-determination of national minorities. 1917.
20* U.S. lifts naval quarantine of Cuba. 1962.
DEC
I* Sergey Kirov, Communist leader, assassinated, Leningrad. 1934. [Note
that show trials of the "19" (15-16 Jbn 1935) and the "16" (19-24 Aug
1936) took place roughly 17 years after communist seizure of power: Red
Chinese purges are in same period of CCP rule.]
2* U.S. achieves first controlled nuclear reaction, Univ. of Chicago. 1942.
8* Pres. Eisenhower advances "Atoms for Peace" proposal in address to UN
General Assembly. 1953
12* Milovan Djilas sentenced to prison (arrested 19 Nov). 1956. TENTH ANNI-
VERSARY.
14* USSR expelled from League of Nations for unprovoked aggression against
Poland and Finland.- 1939.
14 Budapest, World Trade Union Conference to Promote Foreign Trade and appose
Monopolistic Discrimination against Underdeveloped Countries. Sponsored
by WFTU (Communist) 14-17 Dec.
19* Vietminh attack on French installations at Haiphong begins 7 1/2 year war.
1946. TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY.
-- Buddhist Conference, Dacca, Pakistan.
-- General Council of World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU - communist), Sofia.
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26 September 1966
"RED GUARDS" FORCE RE-NAMING OF MAJOR CHICOM PAPER. Ta Kung Pao
(Great Public) will be renamed Chen Chin Pao (March Forward) effective
.15 September. According to Reuters News Agency, the change is due to a
"request" from the Red Guards, the youth - vigilante group so active in
the current "cultural revolution." The paper will also be reduced (des-
pite-its continuing use of "Daily" in its name) to a thrice-weekly pub-
lication and will continue to specialize in economic and trade matter.
Before the cultural purge began Peking had six daily newspapers. It now
has only three: Jenmin Jih Pao, the Communist Party daily; Kungjen Jih
Pao, the trade union paper; and Kwangming Jih Pao, a paper for intellec-
tuals. (Unclassified)
ITALIAN COMMUNIST DAILY TO CEASE PUBLISHING IN ROME. According to
a recent item in II Messaggero, leading Rome daily, attributed to AD_N,
the official East German News Agency, Luigi Longo, Secretary General of
the Italian Communist Party, (PCI), has told other high officials of the
PCI that it will be necessary -- for financial reasons -- to dispense
with the Rome edition of L'Unita. Heretofore, L'Unita has been published
daily in Milan and Rome; the Milan( edition will continue daily publica-
tion. According to the same ADN source, Longo said that L'Unita's circu-
lation in the South and in the metropolitan area of Rome has fallen off
sharply; in the Rome area circulation is only about 7,000 copies per
day. On the other hand, the paper continues to do well in the North.
As there are Communist printing facilities in Milan which at present are
only in operation a few hours daily, Longo said it is better to continue
the Milan edition of L'Unita, and print there whatever additional copies
are needed for Rome and the South. (Editor and Publisher International
Yearbook, 1965 edition, gave overall circulation figures for L'Unita as
150,000 on weekdays, and 200,000 on Sundays, figures which seem too high
in light of the above recent information.) However
according to Cor-
,
1111111111111101 riere della Sera the influence of L'Unita's chief editor in Milan,
Alicata, is being curtailed because of his ideological/political differ-
ences with party secretary, Longo. Moreover, Alicata is being accused
of having conducted polemic exchanges more with the Communist Paese Sera
(Rome) than with the bourgeois press. (Unclassified)
SOVIETS PLAN TO START "READER'S DIGEST" - TYPE MAGAZINE. According
to Newsweek magazine, the Soviet.tews agency, Novosti (Agentsvo Pechati
Novosti), plans to publish a magazine somewhat similar to Reader's Digest.
Tentatively called Sputnik, the new magazine will be published in English
and will contain summaries of articles from a wide variety of Soviet news-
papers and magazines. It will also carry color ads for Russian goods,
including caviar, cameras and automobiles. (Unclassified)
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[Comment: Isn't it strange how irresistibly the Communists seem attracted
by the successes of "decaying" capitalism?]
,"CULTURAL" PURGE AFFECTS CHICOM PROPAGANDA MAGAZINE. As part of the
current "cultural purge" in Red China, the Party propaganda apparatus has
been re-organized, and the former head, Lu Ting-yi, fired (reported in
ML, 15 August 1966). The effects of the purge are now becoming apparent
in some of Chicom propaganda reaching the outside world, notably the
monthly review, China Reconstructs (CR). The January 1966 issue, pub-
lished before the purge, contained color photographs and good art work.
Compared to other Communist magazines, CR was fairly "slick," to use the
trade argot. The July issue, published since the purge, contains some
sepia photographs, but not color. The editorial content, which was
never exciting, is even more drab than before, featuring mainly diatribes
on reactionary trends in Chicom literature and the arts, one of which is
entitled,"Sweep Away All Monsters." Symbolic of the change perhaps is
the July cover of Mao smiling at Comrade Mehmet Shehu of Albania; the
January cover, in full color, was a charming little Kazakh musician from
the Sinkiang Uighur Autonomous Region of China. According to all the
evidence, Chinese culture has been swamped with ideological propaganda.
As one observer putiit: "The color is literally gone from Chinese culture."
Of more direct interest, this change from an attractive magazine for
foreign consumption cannot but hurt the Chicom cause -- not the free
world.
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