POLITICAL PARTIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000500830104-2
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• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 2, 2003
• Sequence Number: 104
• Publication Date: October 3, 1947
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Poland
SUBJECT' Political Parties
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25X1 1. PPR is divided into the follotiaing fcations or groups:
(a) The leftist Moscow Group which dominates the party and its Politburo,
and m joys the complete confidence of the WKP-b (Al.l Russian Communist
Party of Bolsheviks), The group is Jewish and includes such prominent
Jews as Jacob Berman, Hilary Mine and Lambroireki.
(b) The centrist Gomolku Group, strongly represented in the KC PPR (Central.
Committee of PER), and led by Jewish members 'of the Politburo, Its
closest advisor is Albrecht; also a Jew.
(c) The rightist Wilno Group, led by Jedryehowski. It deprecates the
dominant political role of the Jews and is often critical of the
Politburo's policies. The group advocates co-operation with the USS$9
but opposes the Soviets' penetration of Poland and their arrogant
treatment of Poles.
20 Tat. PPR is losing ground through desertion to the PPS in Warsaw, Warsaw Province,
o3d Wroclaw. Many activists and party employees in Wroclaw are withdrawing from
.r-,a-ty activity., The party secretary in the-Wroclaw rayon factory recently o-
:.:,ned with the abatement, rI have promised people enougis and perpetrated ei:c/ugh
lies; I cannot go on a- lot others do it." PPR'e officially announced met9mrship
of 18 thousand in Rzoszow Province is grossly'exaggerated. A recent inspection
by the WE PPR (Executive Committee of PPR) revealed that memy local groups, pre-
tdyously praised for their organizational progress, actually comprise only one or
two members. Canvassing addo no now recruits to the PPR bocause persons '$The are
forced to join a party choose the PPS or the SL. The PPR is endeavoring to :mini-
mi.. a the PPS' numerical .superiority by coercive recruitment, threats of di.:-charge
from employment, and promises of bettor positionaQ
3. PPR's internal disssonation is increassinp,. Dissatisfaction is created among old
guard members by the party' a practice of giving top positions to new members who
as?a still politically and morally unblemished. Th o party explains this over-
alaughing of old members by citing its need for valuable professoional membsz?at
during ,the currant stabilising period,
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4. Despite the PPR'a pretense of a united front, it is waging a systematic war
against, the PPS. This war may repiilt in dissolution of the PPS because of
PP7t':s preponderant power derived from its control of the U3, the Army, the
na-bion'e youth, and-all administrative, educational, and economic positions.
Polish Socialist Party (PPS)
5. Provincial branches of the UB are collecting "evidence" against the most
influential members and elements of the M. UB men conducting illegal identity
checks in factories, mines, and foundries frequently destroy employees' PPS
identity cards, then proclaim the advantages of PPR membership, These advantages
are all too apparent in industry, where orly PPS members suffer during personnel
reductions, and only PPR members are hired for new positions.
6. The arrest of Kazimir Puzak, Tadou%.,Szturmdo Sztram, Dziegielewski, Wilczynski,
Krak zyk, and Minior was a PPR rush to frigt.:.;en .the CK?'vI I-PS (Central Executive
Committee of PPS).- These WRN(wartime underground Socialist organization) leaders
were accused of collaboration with Gen. Anders, foreign spy rings, and the
Socialists, Zaraba and Ciolkosz. Forged documents were used to prove the prisoners'
connections with foreign espionage agencies.
.?. "Spolem" is the ecapogoat in PPR's fight against the PPS. PPR, through its
Section B and the UB0 plans to oust PPS from "Spolem," then destroy it altogether
and substitute ZSCh (Peasant Self Help Union) and PCII. PPR, in-its attack, makes
the following accusations against "Spolem"s
(a) It is a center of collaborationists and speculators.
(b) It is 'a rest home for ex-landlords.
(c) Bureaucracy has sapped its efficiency.
(d) It is not integrated with the villages; instead of capitalizing on
the spontaneous mass movement toward co-operatives, it has sabotaged
the ZSCh.
It r~. :es contracts with private industries managed by pre-war owners,
and guarantees profits from I'Spolem'a" t+mnover.
It permits pe'?_etrntion of ex-landlord capital .into its agricultural
co-operatives.
Its co-operative dairies do not supply cities vi?th.cheap milk.
C. The PPS has r.;rown some increase in strength despite the PPR's program of intimi-
dation and oprression. It was, for example, uniformly victorious in recent
elections of worker'a councils at various factories. Increase in membership
bas, brought PPS a corresponding increase in morale and an awakened tendency to
combat the PPR. Central and Executive Committees of the PPS have issued orders
for party members to obstruct the PPR'.s unification efforts and demand equality
with the PPR. During a conference of the WK PPS in Rzeszow, Government activities
were openly criticized, and demands were voiced that the UB and the Ministry
of Security be abolished, and that a more human and economic method of trans-
ferrint populations be devised. In Klodzk the WK PPS delegate issued instructions
tha` all non-party teachers be drafted into the PPS.
Peasant Party (SL)
9. The SL has been publicly indicted as a PPR tool wielded by PPP eolldborators.-
Recently, however, SL has shown a tendency' to eliminate its disaffected old guard
and a^ill key positions with men c unquestionable loyalty and popularity. It also
talks of capitalizing on the growing mass opposition to PPF, by enlisting all
.peasants for an oxen fight against PPR.
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10. The PSL is being systematically exterminated by PPR partisan and the U3. This
unconstitutional process of liquidation continues even though the Ud voted
acceptance-of the amnesty >>nd the declaration of human rights. The US, acting
on KC PPR directives, employs the following methods in bringing pressure to bear-
against the PSL:
F-ola?e?, Peasants -Party (PSL)
(a) PSL leaders, after being forced to report at U3 offices several times a
`.week, are pressed to signs declarations that they have withdrawn from PSL,
(b) Delegates arriving at meetings are arrested.
(a) PSL?members are kept under constant surveillance, and their houses are
searched periodically.
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(d) Party members are discharged from work and evicted from their homes.
(e) Organizational funds and banners are confiscated.
.(f) -PSL groups are ousted from their offices, which are then turned over
to the SL.,.
ll, Sixty-three PSL proteetn regarding irregularities during the last elections
been completely ignored by the Government, The1UH, however, reacted to the
teats by persecuting the signers and trying to force them to recant.
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