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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000100130072-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 3, 2000
• Sequence Number: 72
• Publication Date: September 1, 1956
• Content Type: OPEN

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jUUE? HINGTON-.(AP). ALLEN W.DULLES CHIEF OF THE CENTRAL INTELLICFNCE
CENCY SAID TODAY COMMUNISM IS P TTINC ON A RESPECTABLE FRONT TO
PE(Z*TRTE THE GOVERNMENTS OF COUt"ITiIES IT CAIN NO LONGER OVERAWE WITH
a"aO?CE.
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It' A STUDY,PREPARED _ FOR THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON UN AMERICAN ACTIVI-
TIES" IF' COL DRIES SUCH AS ITALY, TRANCE AND INDONESIA
w : ARE AUONC THE COUtrrRIES HE WROTE WHERE COMMUNISTS "NAVE
THE STRONGEST PENETRATIONS INTO tRE" PARLIAMENTARY MACHINERY OF FREE
?VERTt1ENTS *"
TAE CIA DIRECTOR QUOTED FROM WHAT HE SAID WERE BOASTING SPEECHES
RUSSIAN AND SATELLITE LEADERS TO HOIJ THAT OMHUNI TS WERE PREPARED
,~ATAKE OVER A COUNTRY WHEN THEY ACHIEVED " NO' A MAJORITY BUT A SUB
INTIAL MINORITY IN ITS LEGISLATURE. IN~EVERY CASE "WITH IHE QUALIFIED
' CEP'T`IO S OF" CZECHOSLOVAKIA AND GUATEMALA HE SAIDy THEY WERE HELPED
IN THE TAKE OVER BY THE PRESENCE 0'? IMMEDT TE THREAT OF ARMED FORCE*
ULLES SAID THAT THANKS TO THE FREE WORLD ALLIANCES THE UNITED STATES
IA. HELPED BUILD, '&THERE ARE FEW LACES IN THE WORLD WHERE A FREE COUN-
TRY IS SO AT THE MERCY OF SOVIET t3 COMMUNIST CHINESE FORCE AS THE
ATIELLITES STOOD ICI 1945-47* w
TIE SAID THAT IN ITALY THERE ARE 143 COMMUNIST AND 75 LEFT WING
CIALIST MEMBERS IN A PARLIA?IENT OF 594 IN FRANCE ABOUT 150 CCHNU-
MST IIEMBERS IN A CHAMBER OF ABOUT 600 A D IN INDONESIA 39 CO11M1,41TIST
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A ELI AMENT MEMBERS REPRESENTIC 16 PER CENT OF THE TOTAL.
DULLES QUOTED SOVIET PARTY BOSS tTIKITA KHRUSHCHEV AS AYINC LAST FED.
14 THAT ""THE RIGHT WING BOURGEOIS PARTIES AND THEIR GOVERNMENTS ARE
UFFER'IN G BANKRUPTCY WITH INCREASIVG FREQUENCY" SO THAT COMMUNIST AND
THEIR ALLIES ARE *IN A POSITION TO . . CAPTURE A STABLE MAJORITY It"
THE PARLIAT:ENTS, AND TRXISFO1$M THE LATTER . . ro INTO A GENUINE IN-
4 .JMENT OF THE PEOPLE'S WILL**
MLLES SAID THIS COULD BE TRANSLATED AS MEANINC "THE COMMUt I.STS Pte
i-; TO INFILTRATE OUR FREE LEGISL
AT
IVE SYSTEMS TO TAKE OVER OUR PARLI-
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:41FENTARY GOVERNMENTS AND TO USE li E FR_EEDOtT WHICH OUR SYSTEM OF COV?"RN-
SAID IT IS A *SIGN OF DANGER" WHENEVER COI t1UNISTS "OBTAIN ANI,
CTIVE MINORITY POSITIoI IN ANY PARLIAMENTARY BODY" AND THAT IF III
TION "THEY HAVE INPORTAIl',T PLACE'S III THE GOVERNMENT AND IN PARTI-
t: ILAR CONTROL THE PTINISTRIES OF DEFENSE AUD INTERIOR THEN THE DANGER
1' GREATLY AUGHEN"TED AND THE COU1tT?Y IN OUESTION IS IPPE FOR A CC11.1-
UUItIST TAKE-OVER.."
"r HE COMMUNISTS HOPE THAT PEOPLI MORE AND MORE WILL COME TO LOOK
T '~"II AS JUST ANOTHER POLITICAL PARTYt A BIT TO THE LEFT BUT STILL
OF ;UFFICIENT RESPECTABILITY SO AS NOT TO CAUSE ANY ILIFTXNC OF
CROWS AGAINST THOSE WHO ARE ME ;BER ; OF IT * DULLES WROTE.
'
hE COMMITTEE C3 U11AMERICAN ACTIVITIES SAID DULLES'APE
+- PR IS
BART OF A SYMPOSIUM ON CURREI'T COMMUNIST TACTICS BY MORE 'THAN
[ 0 GOVERUMENT OFFICIALS MILITARY, Ht1SI1 ESS LA R AND EDUCCATIOtl
L ADERS AND JOURNALISTS TO BE PUPITSHED DY TIE COMMITTEE.
A A/ I-VX 93 2 P 9/1
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