ATTACHMENT "A" COMMUNIST FRONT ORGANIZATIONS

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• Publication Date: May 1, 1967
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INTERNATIONAL
ATTACHMENT ''A"
COMMUNIST FRONT ORGANIZATIONS
Youth/Student
World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY)
International Union of Students (IUS)
Trade Union
World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU)
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Peace 2
World Council of Peace (WCP) 2
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Lawyers
International Association of Democratic Lawyers
(IADL)
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Women
Women's International Democratic Federation 3
(WMF)
Teachers
World Federation of Teachers' Unions (FISE)
Journalists
International Organization of Journalists (I0J)
Scientists
World Federation of Scientific Workers (WFSE)
Radio/TV
International Radio and Television Organization
(OIRT)
Veterans
International Federation of Resistance Movements
(FIR)
REGIONAL
Afro-Asian Peoples Solidarity Organization (AAPSO)
Afro-Asian-Latin American Peoples Solidarity Organization
(AALAPSO)
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ATTACHMENT "A"
COMMUNIST FRONT ORGANIZATIONS
1. INTERNATIONAL
Youth/Student
World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY)
Founded in 1945, its headquarters are currently in Budapest.
Initially, many bona fide youth organizations joined the organization in the
belief that they were founding a non-political organization for bringing the
youth of all races and countries together. By 1950, after the Communists
had captured all key posts and turned the WFDY into a pro-Soviet propa-
ganda organization, most of the non-Communists had left to found their own
organization, the World Assembly of Youth (WAY). The WFDY continues to
propose that the WFDY and WAY should work together.
International Union of Students (IUS)
Founded in 1946, its headquarters are currently in Prague. In
the beginning, students of all political persuasions thought they were found-
ing a representative organization of democratic students of the whole world.
By 1951, most non-Communists had left the IUS because of its pro-Soviet
activities. The non-Communist student unions who left the IUS formed the
Co-ordinating Secretariat of National Unions of Students (COSEC), with head-
quarters in Holland; COSEC organizes the biennial International Student Con-
ference (1SC). The IUS still maintains contact with several national unions of
students which are no longer members; it also tries to keep contact with the
World University Service (WUS) and religious organizations such as the World
Student Christian Federation (WSCF). It continues to try to promote "united
action" with COSEC and its members.
The subsequent careers of important IUS and WFDY leaders would in-
dicate that rising young men are detailed to these organizations for training,
and that this field is particularly important to the Soviet Union. Aleksander
Shelepin is the most prom lent example, having served from 1946 to 1959 as
an officer of the IUS and WFDY; another youth leader on the international
level was V. Y. Semichas Ly. Both of these men became, successively,
Chairman of the Committee f:,r State Security (KGB).
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The Student Council of the USSR is a member of IUS. Both the Com-
mittee of Youth Organizations of the USSR, and the All-Union Komsomol, are
members of the WFDY.
Trade Union
World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU)
Founded in 1945, its headquarters are currently in Prague. Although
the initiative for its founding came from the British Trades Union Congress,
and numerous non-Communist organizations were affiliated, by 1949 the posi-
tion of the non-Communists had become intolerable. The WFTU is a classic
example of the capture of a democratically-controlled organization by the
manipulations of a Communist faction. In 1949, the non-Communists withdrew
from the WFTU and established their own organization, the International Con-
federation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU); it established its headquarters in
Brussels. Because*of the size of the WFTU, its well-organized machinery,
its status in the UN and its pretence of defending the worker, it has probably
had more international influence than any other front organization. It also re-
mains potentially the most dangerous of the front organizations because of the
number of persons it controls.
Official CPSU direction is more clearly identified than is the usual
case: Victor Grishin, WFTU vice president, is chairman of the All-Union
Central Council of Trade Unions, the USSR affiliate, and a member of the
CPSU Politburo.
Peace
World Council of Peace (WCP)
The Communist world peace movement dates from 1948; in 1949 the
"World Committee of Partisans of Peace" was renamed the World Peace Coun-
cil and finally became the World Council of Peace. It has been more success-
ful than other Communist front organizations in winning non-Communist sup-
port. Although the WCP Secretariat was forced to leave Vienna in 1957, it
continues to operate from a cover organization established there--the Inter-
national Institute for Peace (IIP). Ostensibly a research institute associated
with the WCP, the UP is effectively the WCP Secretariat despite the fiction.
Although many front organizations are interlinked, the WCP alone has official
representatives of most of the others sitting on its Council. Because the
WCP's appeal is widespread, it uses the other fronts to support and publicize
campaigns and propaganda.
*the WFTU is the only front organization to enjoy the privilege of Category A
consultative status with ECOSOC, ILO, FAO and UNESCO. In addition, It
takes an active part in the UN regional organizations, the EceilsimteComrnis-
sion for Europe and the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East.
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The Soviet Committee for the Defense of Peace is a member of
the WCP.
Among Soviet personnel at WCP headquarters in recent years have
been Nikolai Matkovsky and Nikolai Bazanov, both of whom were previously
identified as members of the CPSU'a International Department.
Lawyers
International Association of Ds_2crat_iEl.,!_n_vasm (IADL)
Founded in 1946, its headquarters are currently in Brussels. Many
non-Communist lawyers originally joined the organization, but by 1949 most
non-Communists had resigned because of the pro-Soviet position of the IADL.
The IADL has assisted the WCP in campaigns against atomic weapons, the
WFTU in its "struggle for trade union rights," and has been in the forefront
of the "anti-colonial" struggle.
Individual Soviets are members of IADL.
Women
Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF)
Founded in 1945, its headquarters are currently in Berlin (Soviet
Sector). The WIDF has been under Communist control from the beginning;
although a few non-Communist women's organizations have joined, these
have not included women's groups of any importance. Since 1945, the
WIDF has appropriated International Women's Day, originally a Social
Democratic celebration.
The Committee of Soviet Women is a member of WIDF. The head
of the Soviet Women's Committee and a vice president of WIDF is N. V.
Popova, Central Committee member of the CPSU.
Teachers
World Federation of Teachers' Unions (FISE)
Founded in 1946, its headquarters are currently in Prague, at.lthough
a Paris office is still used for liaison with other international organizations. It
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has never attracted much non-Communist support. It became a Trade De-
partment of the WFTU only in 1949, when the free trade unions left the WFTU.
Most of FISE's members come from the Soviet orbit; the leading Western
teachers' organizations are affiliated to the non-Communist World Confedera-
tion of Organizations of the Teaching Profession (WCOTP).
The USSR Union of Educational and Scientific Workers is a member
of FISE.
Journalists
International Organization of Journalists (I03)
Founded in 1946, its headquarters are currently in Prague. Orig-
inally, the International Federation of Journalists (In) and the International
Federation of Journalists of Allied and Free Countries were disbanded, and
merged with the I03. The Communists gradually turned the I03 into a front
organization under their control, however, and by 1950 all non-Communist
unions had withdrawn. Those who left the 103 restarted the IFJ in 1952. The
103 makes periodic proposals for cooperation with the IFS.
The USSR Union of Journalists is a member of MT.
Scientists
World Federation of Scientific Workers WFSW
Founded in 1946, its headquarters are currently in London. At its
founding conference, organized by the British Association of Scientific Workers,
eighteen organizations of scientists from 14 countries were represented. Al-
though it purported to be a non-political organization, Communists succeeded
in obtaining most of the official posts and have retained control ever since.
The only large non-Communist affiliation is that of Britain--Association of
Scientific Workers, but affiliated organizations also exdst(as of 1964) in Den-
mark, France, India, Japan, Portugal and the United State*.
Many members of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR are active
in WFSW,
Radio/TV
International Radio and Television Or anization (OIRT)
Founded in 1946, its headquarters are currently in Prague. Al-
though many countries took part in its founding, in 1950 the B lish Broad-
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casting Corporation took the initiative in setting up a rival body, the European
Broadcasting Union (EBU). All leading non-Communist organizations have
since left the OIRT, mostly to join the EBU. In 1964, OIR,T members were
organizations of Communist countries, plus Finland, Mali, Iraq and the UAR.
Veterans
International Federation of Resistance Movements (FIR)
Founded in 1951, its headquarters are currently in Vienna; a small
secretariat is also maintained in Paris. Since its foundation, FIR has mainly
comprised Communist groups. It has tried since 1962 to establish a working
agreement with the non-Communist World Veterans' Federation (WVF). FIR
claims a membership drawn from about 44 organizations in 19 European
countries and Israel.
of FIR.
The Soviet Committee of War Veterans and Partisans is a member
2. REGIONAL
Afz2..:_itt...Ln...!_ty) les SolidaritySEganization (AAPSO)
Created in 1957, at Soviet and Chinese initiative, the AAPSO perma-
nent secretariat is in Cairo. The Soviets have outmaneuvered the Chinese, and
are apparently now in firm control of the organization. Created to exploit anti-
colonial sentiments in Asia and Africa, it has approximately 75 member or-
ganizations in these areas (including the USSR). AAPSO's evident purpose is
to further Soviet international objectives by exacerbating tensions with Western
powers, increasing Communist influence in the newly independent countries,
and providing a mechanism through which African and Asian political leaders
could easily receive money and guidance. Currently the principal objectives
of AAPSO are (a) to issue propaganda in support of Communist anti-imperialist
policies; and (b) to support with arms, training and funds, militant liberation
movements and radical political parties who are in opposition to their own pro-
Western governments.
Afro-Asian-Latin American Peo les Solidarit Or anization (AALAPSO)
As a result of the Tri-Continent Conference held in Havana in
January 1966, a permanent Afro-Asian-Latin American Peoples Solidarity
Organization was established with headquarters in Havana. The avowed
purpose of the organization is to combat "United States imperialism" in the
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underdeveloped countries of Africa, Asian and Latin America. In effect,
AALAPSO broadens the base of AAPSO by providing means of coordination
between like-minded Communist and pro-Communist organizations in Latin
American and the African and Asian members of AAPSO. The Tri-Continent
Conference set up three permanent bodies in Havana (AALAPSO Permanent
Secretariat; AALAPSO Committee of Assistance and Aid to National Libera-
tion Movements and of Struggle Against Neo-Colonialism; and Tri-Continental
Committee for Support to the People of Vietnam). In addition, the Latin
American Solidarity Organization was established separately by the 27 Latin
American delegations at the conference. Also headquartered in Havana,this
solidarity organization acts for Latin America much as AAPSO functions for
Africa and Asia.
The Soviet Committee for the Solidarity of Asian and African Countries
is a member of AAPSO and AALAPSO.
3. NATIONAL
In addition to their activities in and for the international fronts, the
affiliated Soviet "mass organizations" have become increasingly involved in
bilateral foreign activity. Invitations, exchanges, and sponsored events--
directed particularly at similar organizations or groups in underdeveloped
countries?emphasize the Soviet effort to influence foreign organizations by
country to country contacts which are outside the activities of the international
fronts.
Other Soviet organizations are engaged in a similar effort. The magni-
tude of this effort is well illustrated by the Union of Soviet Societies for Friend-
ship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (headed by a party Central
Committee member). Under this roof organization, some 44 individual friend-
ship societies or associations are engaged in efforts to create sympathy for
and interest in the Soviet Union abroad, including the formation in foreign
countries of a network of local friendship societies with the USSR. Foreign
contacts on the national level are also pursued by such domestic Soviet or-
ganizations as the Union of Sport Societies and Organizations of the USSR,
USSR Union of Writers, and various religious organizations (particularly
those of Islam). The Academy of Sciences of the USSR is also very active in-
ternationally, especially through its institutes for the study of foreign areas.
All of these organizations are controlled, manipulated and coordinated by the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
These Soviet covert action operations abroad are augmented by similar
operations conducted, to the 1:.-st of their ability, by the other Communist
regimes. Communists in the Free World further assist the Soviet effort by
the roles they play in the inte7 r a tional front organizatior*Mtimpeir efforts
to mobilize public opinion withi i their own countries.
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