THE OPERATIONAL PATTERN OF INTERNATIONAL COMMUNISM IN LATIN AMERICA

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TH : OP'.RATI )NA.L PATTER:? OF
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SUMARY
Full appn'eciatir~ti of the threat of international Cc?triuni,ma
in Latin t ;ierrca$ as thx oughout the vrorl.d, der-ands I=awledge of
the opcrat oraal patt y?rs of thou Orgarizations dedicated to the
spread of to Soviet Ccraunist doctrie, These have included the
Comintern (the Third C x mnjst Inter do al) acta.ve from 1919
to 194, and its successor, the Ccmi~-from (the Gorarnaril tsd;i'ornation
Bureau) wi1:b.ch was for d after , orld : a- II arid, is still actived
Under the Cminte=9 Pro-Soviet Ca=twist parties were or;a^ized
and supported in fos ign cou-.Itriea, A La In A:v jcara and Caribbean
Dureau %ias one of five perrianent a?egir~na branches ;r'.sicla controlled
subs .di es9 direct d party activities, and selected individuals for
Co tern Draining center-3 uit in the soviet union. itr 1935! 16 of
the 76 est.blishacl Ca unist parties we -e in Latin America,
Today,, the Center"o xf 1 epre eats a od1l"ied Comintern a LW
controlled f i Ikisca{?r and serving to t.: a zstiai v the Soviet Cca un1st
Party policy line to fraternal par-ties throughout the worlds; largely
through iti intorna.t anal Journal, publ;.shed in 19 different
lais;ua,e;;.
Under close and con tinu?Jt S Soviet Cc. -unlst guid--nce, the program
of the irazilian Conga unist Party hao been developed. as a model for
others in Latin P aericao The Brazilian progi' empha zes the isolate. ~n
it Unitod States 3nperialfs as the principal enen r of the people,
and. directs the Ccnnuni.sts to seek nationa?1,3t :iusines; eloni nts and
other bourgeois grotap3 as allies in an, effort to liquidate US interests.
Guided largely V ough the Com nforu journa:L other Latin Amowicen
Commtunist pasties.-in Co3.ortbia9 CU3.e, Costa Flica9 Ecuador, ParaL fs
Uruguay, and Voneruala?aare developing sib, programs, all related to
the ultimate objective of establishin pro Soviet "peoples' democracies,"
Further Soviet guidance may be expected to emerge from the Ttwentieth
Soviet Caa nnist ?arty Congress, scheduled for February 1955,
Thi.arteen major international Comuni.st Front argan3.zatioas represent
other ehan:ie3.:: for guidance, Those have national affiliates I' linkc~ to
the national Ccar.muais , partiesq in almost every country of the frcao
world, Designed to inslluonce as many social ele ants as possible in favor
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of Sorriat g,101 )al a -ris.9 they are ostensibi7 dedicated o the >)2 c iota on
o peace, or to the ; dvanconaent of the interests of Labciry ; rsuth.
wTCi^3np lati? ! i .'3y sE.?iontiists, Jaur "ialists,, or other spoclal ;mops o In
the rbpotiticuis pattern of their organization and objectives, the
gus.u,:: of Su ric t Cc,: unicri is evident, Through their na .tina:~ an
ro f)i =nab affiliate Latin Anericazns haw- pia-r, ci a nron inent role ii-I
Uis organizat,.=:s and at their congxcs less. Among the most active.
ai': i:liatr s arr those associated with the .crl.d Peace Council., the
t:orld Facicration of Trade Uni.cros9 the 'k.orld. receration of Jenocratir
Yoi air t, Lt n tioial Sttudents l Unions and the :Jt nons 9 In ;arnat iona1
Dsmocrctic s. doration,
The techniques of indirect support m-id guidance through the
Co:?dru'orm and the i.n term tional fronts are not entirely sufficient
for the control of Latin An. rican Cc--mnuiist parties, Certain prob `cros
require .;loan di;. ct contact tend supervision,, i irstg the devious and
complex pattern of So, .et intorina,tiona.?. policy,, and its Implications
for national Cc .tutiwt partiesp must be explairad to trusted nat:ionc.I
leaders through personal and confidential briefings. Seconds as the
older Latin ,aei*i ;act leaders (rmy trained unler the old Cointern)
bete i.nacti vs the training and selection of nay leaders must be
^i nta,ined under Sovla t control? Third;. as new leaders ermeri, a 'ritb'.n
the Soviet Cna:runi; t Party itseL their control over top foreign
leaders s^nast be established through die-eat porconal contact,
The re consi..dcrations ox lain the travel of tor, Latin A erican
leaders to the USSRg and in the mlpport given br this 5ccviot Co unist
Party to trai.Ang and indoctrination of foreign Ca anurv.sts0 In
October 1952, high leaders representing ei,even Latin A ericaan Cawiunist
parties att3nc d the 19th Congress of the :Soviet Ccozuniat ':arty,, at .
which major d ciol s on international Cc unist strategy wore confirzed,
;laz ,r other Latin American Cciu i to have travelled to the UL SR for
ex~ snsi.vs sty cIys, or to pneei cipate in tours and conferences arranged.
tl rough international fronts?
:`in XLyp Soviet Cr r:zunis u control over the local trc it ; and
indoctr Ga-cio i activities of Loin U-feekcar- Comaunist -larties is aided
by .the d-l sertLnation of Cor rrunist litoratur?e through the International
'.'ook Trusty an agency of the Propaganda Commission of the Soviet Covuriurist
Party Central Co ttce, This organizattioo di Aributes a vide V=t.ety of
Spanish 1~ gungve books, parzp tan and periodicals, aov oA these are
Cs mnist c1 sr cs such as; the works of 3ta1in and Lenin; others axe
training ranuals, such as those u,sod in Soviet Ccmmnist i'4& Icy internal
twain tw ; still etherr rxre interpretive periodic.a.la, such aF the imi
Ti.r.-asa u ,ich interprets vorl,d events,, rrpp'rixita av iblo or crsef "
ast ties from the world prosy and which serms.as a rurdiura for inter-
c ni.cation botioen parties, In the distribution of these tp. ublicattons,,
v- _hich a- made available to local parties as gifts or at normal coats, can
bo seen another aspect of an over-an organizational pattern dedicated to
the ,eve:.opm?n t of national Cc iunist. parties which will be aware ofp
and confinuau:zly responsivie tag Sovict Corr rinist ideology and ob jectivesp
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I o The Operational Pattern of teon the
T uo =; orid . ors : ThQ CoPiinte3. n 0 Q.,, o o a o o a 2 0 9
M o zht ::?peratienal ?atta i of Indirect
Inis ration by the CPSU in Latin
k1-zoA.can Co, un3.st part;,' Affairs
lifter ^tlorld UU:ar II: The Co!r nform 10 . U
III D The )r,.erattonal Pattern of Indirect
:tnte.rv;ntion b,* the CPSU in Latin
American Communist 'arty Affairs,
Use of CP Brazil as a 11'odel for
other Latin American Cps oo.o.G000OOavooDn 15 0 22
IV. The Operational Pattern of Indirect
Inter-nntion by the G aU in Latin
America: the International CoImiunist
Front Organizations 23 - 24
IV A. International "Peace" Fronts for the
Subversion of Society as a '.:hole @ @ @ . a. a @ 0 25 ? 39
1, The World 'Peace Council (111C) a d o D D e o 0 0 25 - 32
2? T'ao Cawd.ttee for tho Promotion
of International Trade (CPIT) a@..,.~ 33 - 39
IV 8 a Internation- Fronts for Subversion of
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3. r-he Contedoration oy/~L LUorkers of Latin
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49 ?'TDFUT.UD Propaganda in Latin America 44 - 45
50- IniernatLwm3. Meetings ..D0vD.oaaD00o.. 45 ? 48
6. W.F.T.U. Training; of Trade Union Cadres oaf - 49
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Introduction
In ordar to understand and appreciate the full, threat. of
International Coaruaniam9 knowledge of its op?raatioral methods is
required.;, The incen a doctrine of Con naanisin can a pread only through
the overt and soirat char eis of an International organization, In
es encae international Ca,mnurtiem is an international organization headed
by the Communist Party of the Soviet U: ioa and composed of all other
Coamudet Parties and front organizations, The organizational concept
.of international Coimuniss Is Lenin': contribution. It was Isnin who
develo jd the oparationa1 format of Cor unist Parties,, It was Lenin,
who developed the basic four of international organization=-the CoAintern
and the international front organizations. Thy th3 Communist Party of
th,-,a Soviet Urdan ergahasiw-qa more than ever, that it is guided by Laninist
principi.oa3 rather than Stta1 ,niamt, It is fair to state that Leninism
and Leninist priwiplas calve for, greater international expansion of
Communism than xa ph,! bk1a Stalinism,, It is also fair to state that
Leninism and Leninist principles allow for greater tactical flexibility
in order to find nary and previously denied areas for expansion. Hewes
in anticipation of greatva activity of International Communism through-
out the world, it is appropriate to review some aspects of the operational
pattern of International Communism particularly in relation to Latin
A~r:ica~:
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1, The . ?ationa . P'"'itt rn Bt-,.rcen t e Twc World Warns
The Comintern
Me M rat Clt: nt supplem unwed the functions of the
Organization Bureau by channeling subsidies to the se ticns abroad.,
thus providing the neceerary funds when parties were -amble to operate
effectively on their on resources. Finally., an International Liaison
Dep:rtmmnt was charged with the organization of the entire clandestine
cor icaticns network of the Comintern - an extremely senaiti e
liaison function requiring ri;,IA security precauti onso
#According to the 1st edition of the Soviet Encyclopediaq the
Latin :` wrican Secretariat was located in Buenos Aires.
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Characteristic of the work of this Depar' .ment; at headquarters
and in the field, wer3 the : o: ging of doci. nts, t; icl dirg passports;
radio cor n' cations between Moscow and fc rbign Car nunists; training
of foreign Corwanistz in the Ccmintern: a coammanication services; and
general assistance s" cr the i"Lleg ]. travel o Corm-.-ni is abroad,.
Generally, the Inte i'n? 4ional Liaison Depaaient operated in the field
through its own in3taL? ations and parsonr:ei, but it .also utilized the
organizational and operational facilities of C o m m ern a n y organiza-
tions that is., those f r o n t ar anizations set up in order to spread
the influence of the Comintern beyond the confines of the Communist move.
rent itself. In 1939., for exw~ple, the International of Seamen and Har-
bor Workers - a Comintern controlled organization - was reported to
be operating a radio station in Rio da Jac n:1zo, Brazil, for the Liaison
Depar'ento
The ba;,eic ex3cutive prob2 of trn Comintern, however9 was to
translato directives and i nstrection8 into afff:ctive action in the area
of the vvrious geogra.ohic sections. For this purpose it was necessary to
establish directly in the field certain agoncies, or "relay atationas"
with sufficient power to impose the doci8ion2 of the Executive Committee-
on the national parti3sa Comintern direction in the field, on a country
or regional basis, was primmvi.ly achieved t?hro~gh three types of field
agencies: Pem. anent Bureaus, Comintern Re sentatives, and Comintern
instructcrsa All were clandestine., for their work encroached on the
sovereignty of the nation in which they operated and was generally
concerned with the illegal activities of tho parties,
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Fins P evert Bureaus are known to have existed. Of these,
the ones for Westeaia Surope and the Fars Ea were later exposed most
clecr y, Via Latin America and Carib can Bureau stil-1 remains largely
shrcWe,d in secrecy,, although its headquarters were reported in
i ontevid-to, Ur WW,, 3nd certain of i to more active =fibers were
identified, Each Permanent Bureau had charge of transmitting Comintern
instructions to the r itional sections under its J i .etion and
supez%lsing their exaWu'tiono The Permanent Thr'eaus also controlled the
distribution of subsidies to the sections and hwadled this recruitment
of foreign C,ammmiats for the Comintern training centers in the Soviet
Union. The Bureau ware especially responsible for directing the
i13egral Pa ty apparat3 in their revolutionary actions within various
countries,
Co thitern Rejuvaentatives ~ men who had great power and prestige
for every party coned -, were frequently assigned to a given country
or area with fullest powers to supervise the carrying out of Comintern
decisions, As a gene-al rule, these representatives were persons who
were not native to th? area of their assignrientQ Available information
re t1ects the fact the=; practically all. CoMnunist Parties of any ir?,?
portance during the poriod from 1939 until at least the outbreak of
World War I_I consistently received, deferred to, and followed the in.
struations of a succession of Comintern representatives dispatched
directly to t Lem by tha Executive Comriittee, In addition, Comintern
instructors might be Sent out to har4,e specific supervisory and
advisory furctlons0
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Ono o? ins of the work of a Comintern representative is found
in the activity of the German Communist, Arthur Evert. Under the
alias Harry Berger., c Wert was sent as a Cognuitarn Representative to
guide and integrate the revolutionary military organization of the
Communist Party of Brazil. This operation culminated in 1935 in an
unsuccessful Communist military revolt against the Brazilian Government.'
Captured documents saa';)sequently proved that Evert's position in
connection with this revolt was one o"" controlling importance as the
direct representative of the Comintern. Arrested by Brazilian
authorities, Etert was not released until 19451 in 19147 he returned.
to East Berlin where a Conmunist nowepaper welcomed him back as a "tried
and tested fighter ag:n!mab imperialist war and fascism."
In addition to its contributions to the operational pattern of
international Conmruni3m today, the Comintern also fulfilled the important
function of developing; foreign Comm=tat Party leaders, It is doubtful
that there is today a Communist Party of err significance whose national
leadership does not include one or several members previously active
in the Cominforrn headquarters organize tion or field service., and/or
trained in the Comintern schools. Following the dissolution of the
Comintern and the end of World War II, the.CPSU.desired the national
parties to be guided by the most experienced Communist leaders.
of those in the Latin America area WOMS
Some
Rodolfo GHIOLDI foriaur member of the Comintern Executive Committee
(ECCI5, became member of the Central Committee of the
Communist Party of Argentina
Luis Carlos PRZSTES., former. ECCI member, became Secretary General of
the Communist Party of Brazil.
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F. W, CALDERIG, aiiian Blas ROCA,' former EuCI mamnbr, became Secretary
General of the Partido Socialists Popular of uba
Victories CODOVILA, fcrmer chin f of the Cominterne 3 Latin American
Secretariat,, became a member of the Central Committee
and x c:utiv Committee of the Comm gist Party of
Argentina
Carlos CONTRERAS LABBRCA, believed active in the Condntern33 auxiliary
organization the Red Internatii,nal of Labor Urrions,
became Secretarry General of th3 Conmrzn?st Party of Chile
Eugenio GOMEZ, forer ECCI member, became Secretor.-y General of the
Communist Party of Uruguay
Gustavo MACHADO*aMORAI-ES, who lived in the USS:3 for many years and was
a rerler of the Latin American and Ca i yb bean Bureau,
became Secretary of the PartidO Comm>rm+5n',sta do Venezuela
In addition, many other Communist3 from the Latin America area arc
known to have been active at Comintern headquarters and several more
are knobm to have undergone extensive training in the Cokin'oern schools,
That they have not been identified subsequently with Party activities
attests to the security measures surrounding the illegal apparats of the
Latin American Communist Parties,
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11. The 02erationml Pa .` o Inirect InI5 eeNic;n byr n
CP`.U in Latin A erie:an Corrianist .Part- Affairs After
In the period after World War II,, the Co=xu list Party
of the Soviet Union has employed a variety of i.ndirec d, cari ufi iged
operational methods for controlling and coo:^dinat' ng International
Comnnaniem. The CPSU has created a series o_' new operatiorm. front
mechanisms which are so constituted as to miable the CPSU to conceaal
its leading and control.-.ng rase:.
A special method of CPSU direotioa today of individua:1. Communist
Parties is provided by the Connnunist I.aormation Bureau (Cominform)2
with its weekly jow a19 "For a . .stin-zPea-ae, for a 7-co-ple2a
rasa-~ .rn=~xxa
r-em_cran 8" The Co1Dir orm organ za. ionsa composed of the Con -aur ist
Parties of the USSR, Satellites,, Fran-as and Italy, is a streamlined
version of the Comintern. The Cominzfoza journal, published in Bucharest
and printed in 19 languages, cries the d-i:?octives of the CPSU to
Communist Parties throughout the world,, The Coi wnnist Parties know
that. the journal speaks d:ith the authoritative voice of Moscow and
understand that no article, even by a foreign Comm uric-' lexader, is
printed without Soviet appa ova14 Actual control of the. Cominform
and its journal is exercised by a speciaal secret apparatus of the
Central Conarittee of the Comdminist Party of the Soviet Uraaon.
Nevertheless, the CPSU promotes the fiction that it is merely an
affiliate of the Comilutormo
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In Latin America as eleewhere, the journal of tiha Corn1nfo 'm
ias roga:; ded by Comrrsnist Partiec as a continuing source of author::-
tat:ive directives concerning the international Co ist line a
for'imr1a;ed by the CP:.'l?. It is used by them, as a gu:Lde. to action.
Latin American Partif:s not or i r distribute copies d:;..rest .y to their
ms tn'oers but many official organs of these Parties repeatedl1 cite
and reprint selected articles 'rom the jorxnal as special guides to
ant:ion. That the CPSU desires that Latin Amsrican Communists who are
not formal nnembers of the Cominform should receive these directives
is clea:?1y shown in the fact that the journal is ptiolf.shcd in a.
sopaaratc- Spanish- .ern vags edition which is shipped in large quantities,
and by varioui and d tviour3 no to Lath: America. Distr: bi ion
channeln3 are dotetinirad by the extent- of local co ;t -cis against
Co mist propaganda, To avoid censorship of Boa shipmentg, Memy
copies are air mailed. Sometimes Cominform journ.s for Latin Air rican
countries are mailed from countires in Western Surope to avoid aI;nwing
Bucharest as the point of origin0
An ucax ple of regard for the journa]. as a sourca off' authoritativvi3
directives is shown by the clandestine action taksn by the Corgrsarist
Party of Cuba - deceptively called the Popular Socialist Party - in
order to dleseminate the Cominform directives to Party i Mbers in Cuba
and the Caribbean area. To effect the illegal re-t?ansmittal of the,
Cominfoi'rn journal's information, instructions and directives, the
Popular Socialist Party aublishes and distributes a re-adily~coricealeds
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Spanishhlanguag3 pocket- dition of the jaur3a1,, selecting idr
reproduction (hose journal article; d33mcd most significant. To
illustrate the selections made by the Cuban Party., a pocket-edition
of April 1955 included reprints of articles from several previous
Cominform journals. Among there was xie emphasizf.ng; that the CPSU
is the most powerful and authoritative Com rmist Party in the world
and the model for all. Comrmu3t Parties; another pointed out that
Leninism is the ideological we&:pon of all Coinunint Partie8; stll
another cited the Chinese revolution aB an example of applying
Leninism to conorete conditions; and finally several reprints pro-
claimed that the United States heads all the forces preparing for
warn Such thenns became the basis for Party indoctrination,
Latin American Con ai3t Parties not only accept the guidmice
of the CPSU, as published in the Cominfortn jowenal, but also take
action in keeping with that guidance. For ample, the Commmi3t Party
of Brazil has this year widely disseminated corta-T.n revolutionary lessons
of the CPSU which appeared in the Comiiform journal., issue of 28 January
19554 In a February issue of the Brazilian Party's organ,, Voz Opel,
these CPSU revolutionary &U,, ctit!es were called of major importance
and particularly illuminating for Brazil as the road to be.followed by
the Comnnanlst Party of Brazil in the Struggle for its program. Party
members were told to study these lessons. V oz Operariaa then un3er.
took to publish articles relating the 1905-19C7 revolutionary lessons
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of the CPSU to the Brazilian labor mo ?menii0 In April., an issue
of t1 Cz ninforn jour-m! was pl.aased to note the extensive actions
taken by the Braazilia.1 Party.
A rrationai Cortumurai.st Party in Latin. America will also recorramend
to its msmhers certain CPSU materials regarding organ&zzationaa1 natters
which appear in the Cominforra vournala and then take organizational
action itself on the basis of these materiaais0 The Commurdst, Party
of Guat nala afforded an ea ipl,3 of this follow,-up. In October 1952,
when the 19th Congrea!3 of the CPSU was in session in Mosct, tho
Guatama7lan Party was preparing for its own forthcoming 2nd Congressc,
In preparation for th.sa it recommerAod to its members that they study
certain texts on the i.les of the Soviet Party and adlr1sed them that'
these materials were available in two previous issues of the Cominfora
journal0 Subsequently, the Quintemalan Party followed the CPSU not
only in Ito preparations for its on 2mad Congress, but also in the
organizational action taken at that Conggress, such. as the creation
of the Secretariat of the Central Co rniittee, A Guatemalan Party
leadar later noted thato 0 0 0 ""to the fact that we held the 2nd Corgress
of the Party a few weeks after the 19th Congress of the CPSU, the
materials of which were most valuable to us in our work., we owe the
coaTectnesso 0 e 0of our Congress."
The Ccminfoa'm Journal plays a real. role in exerting CFSU gu,-.dance
upon the programs adopted by national Communist Perties0 In Latin
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America tr.!.s laas been very ovident duiry?ing the last tro years,
F'ew nosr-'.: inform I-.iei'1boi'? Coati .a st Pa;.r3sios, an no other Comnuni3t
Partin;, in Latin America., have ever seen their respectiQao programs
given as :such continu .ng9 approving attention as that given to the
Communis Party of Brazilt's ?rograa in the Cominforn pre during
1954 and 1955, Other Corrrrrunist Parties in Latin America quickly
recognized the authoritative st>Liunis, Parties operating
in that r eg con0 This method reinforces other ed t;.ng control media.,
In Latin America. it is evident, that the Ccz iunist Party of the Soviet
Union has chosen the Brazilian CP to act as its mouthpiece for the
benefit of other CPso The particulwr overt method chosen -and there
am secret corollaries to this i.ethod-was to develop a new political
prcgra'Ti of the CP Brazil which was in line with the t .nking of CPSU
and then to direct other Communist Par-ties in Latin America for
example., in Colombia} Costa Rica., Chile,, Ecuador,, Paragsaye Uruguay
and Venezuela-to adopt official programs similar to the t of the
Brazil i aan Communist Party,
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The Brazi1.i.cn prugs arx. which teas official.,y adopted at, the
I3ativaxa >;o x .uni.st ?arty Congress in Iovmaber 19 1s a long+,hy
dO+.'iLT1:T1'u ' h:LC'?'A crnphaS: zee that pri.0rity Bhou? d be give- to the
problem of liquidating iicrtiz ki rican intersts in Brazi19 and that.
Brazilian business dements (the t'nat .onal bourgjecisia'l in Ca alri~I' t,
terminology) ehou_1d 'ee accepted as a1Ji s it this effort, Its
principal points have been itanized under four headin ;s by Driogcines
Arruda Camara one of the highest Drazili i Coxrnunist officials,
Arruda lists these po: nts as fo1:.ot st
F t_q the p qoes not vein h against 41.,.7 impesi 3
but Only ainst United States imperialism, Auda states that
s rakes it possible to "make us` of, tie contradictions existing
betieen the imperialists" and to neutralize, or make temporary
all.ie of s, the B ?azilian capita'~tats uho are linked with non-U.SQ
ianpsriali. a Subsequently., "after United Stags imperialism is
disposed of" the Brazilian government can face the other imperialist
pa:?rers and the nation's foreign policy will be chan[;ed so that it
"will join the witi-in
order tc Conceal the OPSU ? s actual role, Until 1943 the CPSU u:3ed
the CoTwmunis u Youth International., which it controlled through ,he
Comintern, From 1916 to date the CPSU has used two internation ti
Cormnunist youth fronts to achieve the same purpose and has coat-'oiled
them through Soviet and Com nurZist officials who have occupied tce
key policy-making positions from the beginning and uho have ?tru.ill
these organizations on behalf of the CPSU. One is the ;=or1d F'ele. ation
of Der ocd atic Youth (WFDY) r irh'_ch is headquartered in Budapest, Hungary
and which seeks to make converts to the Communist cause youths )f all
ages from 8 to 30. The other is the International Union of Stu?ients
(IUS), which is headquartered in P:.^aEgue,, Czechoslovakia and whi,h
specializes in influencing and subverting the students,, the wor?.~.d?s-
futw e leaders.
All of the policy-making Executive Committee members of th !se
fronts are either ComnlUni3ts or fellow.-travellerss and over one-third
of these officials are from the Soviet bloc.
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Indicative of the importance both fronts attach to Latin America
is the fact that the iJFDY Executive Corw-ittee includes three Latin
Americans-a Cuban, a Brazilian and a Chilean, and the IUS Executive
Committee includes a Cuban and an Ecuadoran and provides for the
inclusion of two more officials from Bolivia: and 2-"exico,
These Latin American officials are full-time workers at the
international headquarters of these fronts in Budapest and Prague,
where they receive important on-the.-job training, and play the key
role of supervising and guiding the t.rork of the full-tine$ trained
employees working in special departments concerned with Latin American
affairs, They help these departments tailor the CPSUas current line
on all matters to fit specific Latin American issues and problems of
general interest to youth in this areas They also +7elp to find new
and better ways to organize larger, stronger and more numerous
affiliates in this area,
10 Propag
It should be remembered that the. ti FD! and the IUS are not
legitimate international youth organizations as we know them but are,
instead, Communist propaganda :Hills and training grounds for future.
Communist Party members, Millions of dollars are spent on their
worldwide operations every year'-host of which comes from the Soviet
bloc countries, and it is estimated that in the past two years alone
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there has been a four-fold increase in the propaganda materials these
fronts have manufactured and sent to Latin America.
This W 1 Y-IUS propaganda material co;isists not only of several
slick mtiLti-colored and r