COMMUNIST TACTICS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000100130054-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 3, 2000
• Sequence Number: 54
• Publication Date: September 8, 1956
• Content Type: NSPR

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CPYR(9nnist Tactics
Numerous surprises were contained, in an
rialysis e current Communist tactics feceptly
ubmitted to.the Committee on Un-Ameri0ar}
Activities by t`=Jr, ,JY...l.aies, director. of the,;
Central Intelli;e.nce Agency. ii
The most di. atnbing one to us was reV@la
ion of the great extent to which the C-,
iunists have obtained a hold in the par.j
mentary machinery (4 the ,governments,, of *br
and France. ,k
In this connection, ~Mr, tulles points out tki t
the power and iiince:pf the Reds !,.#re
creased through parliamentary comprot es,,*,,
the part of other political groups. In Ipet, Viet
CIA director lists, the, folloaving as one, of the
four elements whit' r, ave beeh featured, in in-N
stances where Corntnists have taken over flea;
countries:
"The willingness o'other parties, most ofteni
the parties to the l$t, but in some cases even
parties of the)extxer tight, to join in political ;
alliance and tb edrrsit Communists to key pos}-
tions in the government." 16 And doing his "#? keep people from;get- A
Ling careless beta of Khrushcher(s smileb,
"Though they dim quote it FCi ally, we
carfbe sure that the Soviet leaders s ra.cCept
the view announced, most viyidly f nin's
own heyday-in t j.Statutes tnf th* d
Communist Internapna1 ill.O- ie
Communist Party enters sucfr '~insil ns tas
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parliaments) ot f` e purist: of organiza-
tion work but ixl, to blow,'," up the whole
bourgeois mathi,' the porliament itself
from within'."
in the Italian ;, ament ol 500 members,
there are now 1 munists. Po these, must
be added, aCcor _ "to the Dtles report, i5
fellow-traveling ,.et-WA Socialists, or
a total of 218 who` i9s tly v e and act with
the Communists. To
of 1953, their total popltlCRr' tte was 35.5 per
cent of the, national t ai ki
The 'retch Charrt,ber' Deputies, has about.
150 Communist meipers tint of a pros=r"t
The CIA rdireetor polls out tl t }e,i, -
munist Party is illegal in some 05 codes. t A
the world,, but deplQX~s the foe; that" Iri- Jtf arY_
countries, e9 edial ^ ' Akio, the Red grbulrs
have manag td,'q,Ulre degree of "respet
ability" and of acceptan,pe as just another pr,
Jlitical party, i':
The analysis points oat that there is "..
instance where the_Co=ni usts have taken uv"j
a rnuntrv' by free?,eleotio,rs or have o0taurat-
a parliamentary maiorita ipy free eiecti+,no
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