THE KREMLIN'S STRATEGY OF PARLIAMENTARY CONQUEST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000100130059-2
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• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 3, 2000
• Sequence Number: 59
• Publication Date: September 5, 1956
• Content Type: NSPR

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m's Strategy of
tbry Conquest
As we have pointed ou 00 Nten
that doubtless it has become boring,
the Communists have made nearly all
of their considerable gains since
World War II by trickery, not by
force.
They obtained control over Czecho-
slovakia in this manner. The threat
of force was used in the conquest of
nearby states, including Hungary,
Poland, Romania and Bulgaria.
In all, the Soviet Union has brought
into its domain 22 free states.
Now the CentraLinteHigrtca Ag-
ency and other lesser agencies have
taken official note of the Commun-
ist's use of infiltration, trickery and
other devious means to get free peo-
ples within their.:grasp.
Italy, France and Indonesia are
listed as the principal targets of the
Kremlin's new strategy of "parliamen-
tary" conquest.
We might wonder, parenthetically,
why the Midle. apd.Z1a,.ast are
omitted from consideration. Itr,may
be that,ir. Dulles regards these areas
as having fallen already into the
clutches, Of t Commies.
Mr. Dulles says that when the Com-
munists obtain an effective minority
position in any parliamentary body, it
is a sign of danger.
They have such positions in both
France and Italy. In Indonesia they
have penetrated to cabinet rank.
Mr. Dulles gives the United States
credit for blunting the element of force
in the Com'lunist program. But he
admits that this has, only channeled
Soviet activities into the struggle for
power by other means. Hence opera-
tion "take-over," or "parliamentary/9
conquest.
Mr. Dulles points out how we have
been warned of the Iremlin's inten-
tions in the series of,;eches which
characterized the 20th Soviet Con-
Alien W. _Dulles, director of the
Central Intelligence Agency, and oth-
er prominent Americans have taken
official notice of Communist means
of accomplishing their objectives in
statements made in a symposium com-
piled by the House committee on un-
American activities.
Mr. Duller; statement in particular
is a valuable contribution to the al-
ready large volume of material on
Communist methods. Mr. Dulles chides
Americans for failing to take notice
of what the Communists have been
doing and what they aim to, do. He
points out that the late Adolf Hitler
enjoyed a similar complacency. Hitler
had it all written out in his book,
Main Kampf, what he was going to do.
The American people didn't pay
any attention to the book until after
World War II had started. It was too
late.
Mr. Dulles Is afraid we are going to
similarly let the present day Com-
munist leaders' mouthings go un-
noticed. It will be to our own peril.
He says very plainly that the Com-
munists mean to infiltrate our free
legislative systems, to take over our
parliamentary governments, and to
use the freedom which our system of
government gives to destroy all
vestiges of that system.
gress.
.
Says Mr. Dulles: "We cannot say;.
we have not been warned. The free
world is confronted with the plain
fact that a great foreign power with
vast resources to back a program of
subversion and cajolery, proposes to
do everything it can to see to it tiat
free governments shall perish and
that dictatorships of the proletariat,
allied with Moscow, shall be estab-
lished throughout the length and
breadth of the lands.
"It Is well to recognize the danger."
Our own experiences with Commu-
nist Infiltration of our government
should now stand us in good stead, if
we will only use them.
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