LACK OF COMMUNIST COORDINATION IN OPPOSING ERP

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001800790002-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 6, 2000
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: September 3, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY The Ileth.orlands/Belgium
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to flo coordinated plans between the Communist Parties of Belgium and The
Netherlands exist for sabotaging ERP shipments received at the ports of
Antwerp, Rotterdam and Amsterdam, or for preventing ERP?apon$o red economic
recovery in the two countriose
20 The majority of the 35,000 dockworkers and longshoremen in Rotterdam is
composed of members of the Dutch Labor (Socialist) Yarty0 Many of the
laborers at the port have no formal political affiliationso Several
thousand of them belong to Catholic trade unions, and the rest have
joined the EVC, The Netherlands' largest trade union which is Communist=
penetrated but not Communist-control.ledo
3. Should the Communist elements in Rotterdam attempt thesabotage of a single
ship bringing ERP supplies to Holland, source believes that the non-Communist
majority of the dockworkers would forcibly restrain such action.
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