THE COMMUNIST CONNECTION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000201090037-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 12, 2010
• Sequence Number: 37
• Publication Date: August 26, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ARTICLE AFFT-AM3
ON PAQE (_ /
WASHINGTON TINES
26 August 1983
The communist I connection
The untold story of this
weekend's ballyhooed
march for "jobs, peace and
freedom" is the ominous
spectacle of legitimate civic,
church and labor leaders linking
arms in common cause with obvi-
ous stooges of the Soviet Union and
the Communist Party USA.
The heavy involvement in the
march of U.S. communists, front
groups and notorious conduits for
Soviet disinformation is not a
secret. It simply isn't being talked
about.'Their participation may be
discovered readily by examining
the official list of march endorsers.
The communist press has been pro-
moting the event for months, while
the foreign policy issues being
hammered - converging on the
theme of weakened U.S. defenses -
are a far cry from the "civil rights"
concern alleged as the original
motive for the rally.
The resulting amalgam is a
major triumph for the hard-core
Marxists and a bitter pill for liberal
anti-communists in the union
movement and elsewhere who in
the past have tried to steer clear of
Moscow's puppet groups and fellow
travelers. This time around, Lane
Kirkland's AFL-CIO will be seen as
moving in common phalanx with
the following - all of whom are
officially listed as sponsors of the
march:
? The U.S. Peace Council.
American arm of a Soviet front
group called the World Peace Coun-
cil, bought and paid for by the
Kremlin. A CIA report describes
the WPC as "the Soviet Union's
most important international front
organization." Leadership posi-
tions in the U.S. Peace Council,
according to the FBI, were given to
two national leaders of the Commu-
nist Party USA - Michael Myerson
and Sandra Pollock.
? Mobilization for Survival. A
self-described "peace and environ-
mental" group that openly lists the
Communist Party USA on its mast-
head as an affiliate, along with the
communist-controlled U.S. Peace
Council, one other notorious com-
munist front, and other groups that
collaborate with the World Peace
Council.
M. STANTON EVANS
? Women's International League
for Peace and Freedom. Described
by the U.S. State Department as a
"well-known international front"
for the Soviet Union and its inter-
ests, it may be depicted more accu-
rately as a collaborator in such
interests. The WILPF has sent offi-
cial representatives to the World
Peace Council board and is a par-
ticipant in the communist-
influenced Mobilization for
Survival.
? Women Strike for Peace.
Another collaborator with the
World Peace Council, and with
MFS, this group attained
prominence in the 1960s as a sym-
pathizer with the cause of North
Vietnam. A congressional study
found it to be "a pro-Hanoi organi
zation" which "enjoyed the com-
plete support of the Communist
Party."
? Women for Racial and Eco-
nomic Equality. A well-known front
group for the Communist Party
which collaborates with the MFS
and a Soviet global front group
called the Women's International
Democratic Federation. The CIA
informs us that "no non-communist
women's group of any importance
has ever joined" WIDF and that it.
has been run by identifiable com-
munists since its inception.
? National Lawyers Guild. Cited
years ago by the House Committee
on Un-American Activities as "the
foremost legal bulwark of the Com-
munist Party, its front organiza-
tions, and controlled unions," the
NLG in recent years has evolved
into a mixture of old and new left-
ists. It is a member of the Soviet
front group, the International
Association of Democratic Law-
yers, which is a faithful
mouthpiece for Soviet policy.
? Committee in Solidarity with
the People of El Salvador. Accord-
ing to captured rebel documents,
this group was formed with the aid
of members of the Communist
Party USA under the supervision
of Farid Handal, brother of the gen-
eral secretary of the Salvadoran
Communist Party, during a trip to
the United States. According to the
FBI, CISPES has been involved in
circulating a forged "dissent
paper" oil El Salvador also being
promoted by the Soviets.
? Assorted other front groups,
including the National Alliance
Against Racial and Political
Repression, the Labor Research
Association, and the All People's
Congress, a front for the pro-Soviet
Workers World Party.
The positioning 'of pro'-
communist -elements in what is
advertised as a non-communist
event thus approaches that
attained last year in the June 12
disarmament rally at the United
Nations. Thanks to the FBI, we
know that rally was effectively
manipulated . by -the -Communist
Party and US. Peace Council to
serve the objectives of the Kremlin
- focusing on US. instead of Soviet
weapons. Significantly, the call for
this weekend's rally specifically
endorses and praises that event,
while urging a nuclear freeze, mas-
sive cuts in U.S. defense spending,
and a cutoff of U.S. assistance to El
Salvador.
Question: How did the good folks
from the AFL-CIO and other
respectable organizations let
themselves get hooked up with
such people, in such a disreputable
cause?
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