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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01443R000100140006-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 24, 1998
• Sequence Number: 6
• Content Type: REPORT

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(1) Italian Elections
Held June 7.
Increased Communist strength l8 - 51 + 52 elections.
Increase in strength of Right.
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Moderate party losses due to low standard of living, -
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n approximately 2 million unemployed -emigration restrictions,
Cd) UP- 1)
Extremes also hostile to NATO. Central parties suffer from
heterogeneous character.
New Electoral law gives 65 per cent of delegates if over 50
per cent of vote achieved.
De Gasperi aided by President's speech.
Fascist vote for first time F
r program 5.4
Likelihood of last minute Communist offers on Trieste,
accentuation of peace campaign, etc,
dissatisfaction over Trieste, Soviet peace propaganda, etc.
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