INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING ORGANIZATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-00915R000600150006-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 63
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 28, 1998
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: October 10, 1956
• Content Type: REPORT

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Czechoslovakia
Estonian SSR
Finland
Hungary
Karelo-Finnish SSR
Mongolia
Poland
Rumania
Ukrainian SSR
USSR
Vietnam (South)
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 Representation in the International Broadcasting Organization
appears to be by governments through their respective radio or
brsting committees attached to the Council of Ministers
--- , A
~svL
With the exception of Finland al). co ntriea r seated are
Communist bl qi countries.
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rgariisation Internationale de Radiodiffusion
._ __ Headquarters --- Adires_s:
Liebinechtova 15,
Prague XVI, Czechoslovakia
Regional Offices:
None
C. Claimed Membership:
Representation in 20 countries (l95).
Mont
Doormen .'t ion and Information Bulletin 0
Executive Officers (Elected- November, 1955) :
Executive Board
- OIR)
Frantisek r' CASEK (Czecho sl..ova',ia)
Vice PresLlents: J. RISSANF,N (Finland)
WEN 'Chi-Tse (Communist China)
Secretary General: Mirosh BROSH (Czechoslovakia)
F. Regional Officers:
None
G. National Affiliates or Parallel Organizations:
Moldavian SSR
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National Affiliates, or Parallel Organizations*
Affiliate
. ALBANIA
Educational and Trade Worker
Union of Albania
Federation of Democratic Te
and Educators
BULGARIA
Educational and Press Workers
Trade Union of Bulgaria
CAI ROOrS
Teachers' Union of the Cameroons
5. CHINA (Communist)
All-China Educational Workers
Union
Claimed membership (1956) : ?_,000000
6. CHIT
riot~f theyescri d44r41(4'v,
affiliate. This organization was
A "Union_-o T~ache _was reported
by FISE in July 1953 as being an
C7.ECHOS.OVA?iIA-_
Union of Educational Workers of
Czechoslovakia
8. FRENCH EQUATORIAL AFRICA
Teachers t Union_ of .rrench_Equatorial
Africa
*Parallel Organizations are those which generally support the objectives
Ap off e~1~~~t~8 7 I~ P t0 0@~600~~tOQQ~ itely kno m to be
o y affiliated with it.
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WORLD FEDERATION OF TEACHERS' UNIONS*
(Federation Internationale Syndicale
de l'Enseignement - FISE)
A. Headquarters Address:
ism
Formerly located at Schwindgasse 7, Vienna IV, Austria.
In February 1956 the FISE was expelled from Austria.
It has not announced the new location of its headquarters.
B. Regional Offices:
None
Co Claimed Membership:
Seven million (1956) in 27 countries (1954).
D. Official publication:
Teachers of the World (quarterly)
# This organization is a trade department of the :world Federation
of Trade Unions (WFTU).
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Executive Officers (1956):
17.n_' j s_ r ' ye ~m m; e
President: Henri :WALtON (France)
Vice Presidents; Ivan GRIVKOV (USSR)
Fan MINE' (Coriu_unist China)
Cesar GODOY Urrutia (Chile)
Antonio BANFI (Italy)
Gueye ABDOULAYE (Seneca.:t)
Secretary General: Paul DELANOUE (France
_Secretaries_: Maria MARCHANT (Chile)
Dimitri TAPTIKOV (USSR)
Members: Eustachv TT, ~^
St-DOBRE'V (Bulgaria)
Rafael TISCHzR(Guatemal.a)
Taieb DJADIR
AAlgeria)
J. P. SAINZ (Mexico)
Vaclav KOUKOL (Czechoslovakia)
Erika 'JENDLAI (East Germany)
N'GUYEN Khan Toan (North Vietnam)
Auditing Commission: T41-1 -14' unA --nTTT,r
knustriaL:..
ACS, first1" ame uunknown'(Huqr. OY4#f LO
ng y)
(Poland)
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A-M- i a? ;
FRENCH 'NEST AFRICA
Coordinating Committee of Teachers'
Unions of French West Africa
Trade Union of Teachers and Educators
of -the German ~emocratie Republic
Union of Hungarian Teachers
Acres if Cxorl i fa____ __3Z,/36,
xffiffdiE
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a. The Elementary School Teachers' Union_(Calcutta)
Natinna.lTrade Union of Educational
Workers-
(Sindicato National de Trabajadores _
3e _Ta__ducacion - t`E)
Claimed membership: 120,000
1955- TIn a _- reliable source reported that
the SLATE had been affiliated with the FISE
_sin.ce -its inception, In 196--another U.S.
Agency reported that the SNTE was definitely
not-of 111sted . Clarification is being soudjht,)
Mongolian Union-of Educational. Workers
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16. MOROCCO
.Federation of Teachers, of Iv rocco
17. . N8B KOREA
.Educational Workers Trade Union
18. POLLM
Union of Education 1 Workers of Poland
Address: Spasowskiego 6,
Warsaw
P-izbiication: i y1 auczyc ei
19'
Union of Educational workers of Rumakia
--Publication: Gazeta Invataaij
20. U S. ;S. R.
Union of _ Workers of Primary and Secondary
Schools of RSFSR
21. VIA?, A.M (North)
National-Federation of-Educational Workers
Claimed membership: 10,000
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D. Officia1 Pubficat & s:v-
Bulletin if the World Council of Peace (b Monthly)
Horizons (monthly)
P mpfilets and bulletins as necessary for congresses and
council meetings.
L#st of Executive Officers of the World Peace Council:
These officers comprise -the- Executive bureau and are
elected by_the areau itself at ir_regularith servals.
Regional Office: Peace liaison C mtAt.ttheied the
_to Asian andPacific Regins
President: Ching-ling Soong (Mme. Sun Yat-Sen) (China)
Secretary:
(China) -
Deputy
Secretaries:_-- Rewi Alley (New Zea-land)---_
Romesh Chandra (India)
Vice
-Presidents:- I. I. Anisimov (USSR)
Rev. James- Gareth-._Endiaott_(.Cana
Nazim Hikmet (Turkey)
Victor James (Australia)
Dr.-Saif-ud-din Kitchlew (India)
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xbM- 4e--Ktto (China)
,.Jiichiro Matsumto Japan,
copy attach ment~~B page 4 where marked) Fd?((,
Regional Officers:
Pak CheAi' ort Korea)
Paul Robeson (USA)
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Bulgaria:
Ceylon:
Chile:
China:
Tbdor PRACHOV (A)
xm= M. G. P I,''D IB (A)
Cesar GODOY Urrutia (A)
CHEN Chao Ming (A)
CHIN King (A)
LIU Ning I
III LIU Chang-sheng
Colombia:
Cuba:
Czechoslovakia:
Ecuador:
Finland:
French. Tiest Africa
14l rWDI
Jesus VILLEGAS (A)
Lazaro PENA Gonzales
Frs.n.tisek ZUPKA (from October 1.955)
Miguel Angelo GUZMAN (A)
Aarne SAARINEN
Fernand FORGUSS (A)
Benoit FRACHON
Henri JOURDAIN
Alain Le LEAP
Gaston MO1'PIOUSSEAU (A)
Louis SA ILLANT
and Tt ^?xdoulaye DLLLLO
Diallo SEYDOU (A)
uatorial Africa: Jacques N'GOM
Abel TIIA2EY Ganga (A)
Kurt HEL1IG (A)
Herbert /ARNKE
Anthony OODE
Greece: - Costas THEOS (A)
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 Guatemala: Victor Manuel GUTIE`?REZ
Jozsef P KIS
S. A. T)ANGE
Pers. Aruna AS AF LI: (A)
Ruslan WIDJAJASASTRA (A)
Iran: Reza RUSTA
Italy:
Giuseppe Di VITTORIO
Fernando SANTI
Luigi GRASSI
Agostino NOVELLA (A)
Oreste LIZ"ADRI (A)
Renato BITOSSI_ (A)
Japan: Kenta KA''EKO
Michio WATANABE
Korea (North): SEH HI
Lebanon: Mustafa y L ARISS
Luxembourg: Joseph GRAIM)GEMET .(A)
Vicente LOMBARDO Toledano
Jacinto LOPEZ (A)
Netherlands: Ber.tus BRAI,?DSEN
Poland: Wiktor IcLOSIE1JICZ
Rumania: Stelian flORARU
Syria: Ibrahim BIKRI (A)
Trinidad: John J. ROJAS (A)
Tunisia: Hassan SADAOUI
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Union of South Africa:
U.S.S.R.
Anna SCHEPPERS
NESS INA (A)
-Enrique P ASTORINO
Eugen CIE RMNICHE NKO (A)
Nikolai SHVRIti?IK (Presumably succeeded
by Victor V. GRISHIN)
Leonid SOLOVIEV
Klavdia KUZr1ETSOVA
Vassili KRESTIAN TINOV (A)
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Regional Officers :
._____Confederation of Workers of Latin America
Confederacion de Trabajadores de America Latina - CTAL)
Executive Board
(Elected March 1953)
President:. Vicente LO1,1BARDO Toledano (Mexico)
Vice Presidents: Jesus FARIAS (Venezuela)
Lazaro-PENA Gonzalez (Cuba)
Ramiro LUCHESI (Brazil)
Secretary General: Jose MORERA (Cuba)
Secretaries: Lourival VILLAR (Brazil)
Tersao TI;IRELLES (Brazil)
Il_defonso ALEMAN (Chile)
Oscar ASTUDILLO (Chile)
Victor Manuel GUT IERREZ (Guatema
Victor A. ZEAL (Guatemala)
Antonio GARCIA Moreno (Mexico)
Jacinto LOPEZ (Mexico)
Juan ACOSTA (Paraguay)
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Alternates: Luis FUENTES Zapata (Chile)
Carlos GREBE (Chile)
Max GONZALEZ (Guatemala)
Justo t&MIREZ (Para r ay)
Jose CABALLERO (Uruguay)
$3 Federico RONDON (Venezuela
2. Asian-Australasian Liaison Bureau
Information concerning this liaison bureau is
fragmentary. As of the dates indicated the following
persons occupied positions in the bureau:
Head (President?): LIU Ning I (Communist China), February
1954.
Secretary General: CHEN Yu (Communist China). June 1954
Members: M. V. SEZOV .(U.S.S.R.). October 1955
Achmad JAHJA (Indonesia). October 1955
B. N. MUKEERJEE (India). October 1955
Kenta KANEKO (japan). October 1955
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Central Council of Trade Unions
( ashkimi Pergjiyshem Sindikal i Shiipnis)
Address: Kryesija Keshillit Quendror,
Tirana
Membership Claimed (1955): 90,222
National Trade Union Center
(Centrale Nationale Syndicale)
Formerly the Trade Union Federation of
Algerian Workers (CGT).
Movement for the Democratization
and Independence of Trade Unions
(Movimianto nor De'-ocr..tizacion
e Independencia de 1os
Sindicatos - MPDIS)
Estimated ?Membership (1950:
3,000
Austrian Trade Union Unity
Fraction (Corm unist fraction of
the Austrian Trade Union Feder-
ation). -
Confederation of Brazilian Vorkers
(Confederacao dos Traba_lhadores do Brazil - QTB)
Central Council of Trade Unions
Address: ul. Positano 8,
Sofia
Maimed Membership (1955): 920,000
Publication: Bulgarian Trade Unions (Di-monthly)
Parallel organizations are those that generally support the objectives
and activities of the '1FTU but which are not definitely know~m to he
formally affiliated with such organization.
National Affiliates of the WFTU, or Parallel Organizations.*
Affiliate Parallel Organization
1. ALBANIA
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Burma Trade Union Congress (BTUC)
b
Ce lon
Ceylon Trade Union Federation (CTUF)
Estimated Membership (1955): 19,578
China Cn,nn uni st~ t
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All-China Federation of T de
Address: No. 1 Fu Chlen_Street _(F_.0. Box 1),i Peiping
Claimed Membership_(1955): 12,450,000
Publication: China oJorker
bia
_?e - Cos
Estimated (1956) - 1_x,000
eratiopof Lab9 (The "Old T:rr
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Colombian Confede~atiQn_..Qf__ Indepen,?ent Workers
(Confederacion de Trabajadores Colombianos_Independiente')
_. Membership:
Claimed (1953) -
200,000
Estimated (1953)-
20,000
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General Confederation of Workers of Costa Rica
(Confederacion General de Trabajadores Costarricense - CGTC)
P,bmbership: Claimed (August 1956) - 6,125
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Pancyprian Federation of Labor (The "Old Trade Unions")
(Pankypria Ergatiki Osmospondia - PEO)
Address: Patriarchou GerCoriou Street No. 23,
(P.O. Box No. 105), Nicosia
Membership: Claimed (1955) - 20,000
Estimated (1955) - 15,000
Czechoslovakia r
Central Council of Trade Unions
(Ustredni Rada Odboru yURO)
Address (1955) : No. 1300, Prague XI
Claimed Membership (1954): 3,359,924
Publications: Prat (Daily)
Czechoslovak Trade Unions. (Monthly)
Ec_a dorl
Confederation of Ecuadoran Workers
(Confederacion de Trabajadores Ecuadorianas - CTE)
Estimated (195.5) - 40,000
General Confederation of Labor
(Confederation Generale du Travail - CGT)
Address (1955):
Casa del Obrero,
Plaza del Teatro,
Quito
Membership: Claimed (1955) - 11,000 - 120,000
Address: 213 rue Lafayette
Estimated Membership (1955): 1,200,000
Publication: Le PeuDle (Bi-weekly)
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ranch Equatorial Africa and CameroonsO'
Coordinating Committee of French Equatorial
Africa and Cameroons.
Regional organization of the French General
Confederation of Labor. Composed of trade union
,federations in Cameroons, Chad, Gabon, Paddle Congo
and Ubangi-Shari.
Address and Membership: Not available.
French West Africa and Togolan
Coordinating Committee of French West Africa,
and Togoland.
Regional organization of the French General
Confederation of Labor. Composed of trade union
federations in Togoland, French Sudan, French Guinea,
Ivory Coast, Niger, etc.
Address and Membership: Not available.
LGiL/iTE
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French West IndiesL
General Confederation of Labor
(Confederation Generale du Travail - CGT)
Address: Maison Syndicale, La Levee,
Fort-de-France,
Martinique
Estimated Membership (1951): 16,607 (10,979 in Martinique,
if i II ..- 4,595 in Guadeloupe,
933 in French Guiana)
/Y Germanv(East) Q
Free German Trade Union Federation
(Freier Deutscher Gewerkschaftbund - FOGS)
Address: Fritz-Heckert Strasse 30
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Claimed Membership (1955): 5,300,000
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General Confederation of Guatemalan Labor
(Confederation General de Trabajadores de Guatemala - CGTC)
Remarks: Dissolved by government in June 1954. Has
Central Council of Trade Unions
(Szakszervezetek Orszagos Tanacsa - SZOT)
Sztalin-ter 17
Address:
Claimed Membership (1954): 1,913,000
Publications: Ne sr~ zava (daily)
Central Organizations of Trade Unions
for All Indonesia
(Sentral Organisasi ruruh Seluruh
Indonesia -SOBSI)
Address: Gang Tengah 29,
Membership: Claimed (1955) - 2,661,970
Estimated (1955) - 1,000,000
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Bulletin of the Hungarian
Trade Unions (Monthly)
.~. India:
All-India Trade Union Congress _(AITUG)
Address: Pawha Mansion, Kamla Market,Asafali Road,
New Delhi,,
! mbership: Claimed (1955) - 709,276
Estimated (1955)- 306,963
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.Affiliate
Parallel 0 rrre, d._
___Rd_caardo_ Lombard'
,
Sec: Achilo_ Corona AJa.
_! .
Nat : sec: Celeste Negarville~` < 1 ~.... eo,` th~ 4
Japanese National Council Against
_- Atomic a lid Hydrogen Bombs
an-
a-? The Japanese Peace Protection Committee aka
-The Japanese Preservation of Peace Comtr,ittee
`?t-?Pree: K_enjuro fanagi_da '~'a
Gen. See; Prof. Yoshitaro Hira o
Strength: 500,000 signatures Stockholm appeal 6/19/50
32,160,O00 signatures Vienna Appeal 9/1/55
Publication, : "Word Peace" circ~00 and "International
Research Materials n the ausA of PPa P.n
i-monthly.
t
"Peace Newspaper" circ 60,000 w}y~F
(Relations with China and USSR
n
s .Anal Council for Establishment q~ Normal
--Publications: "Peace Newspaper" off-above.
Overall Peace Patriotic Movement Council
Leader: Kan Majima
R=cs : 4- +.-
---Li=-Hiroshirre ounci on Prohibition
ate; ,.~,r~;~ra?w.A-
3 p
L:i
e'+Ita.lian Christian Movement for
_ -Peace
Leader: Marto Kontesi
fe~v r3sa:< nor ~, a tt,i wi
of Atomic and Hydrogen Borbs
S C --Seo4 Takiishiro Mori
apan Council for. Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
ers: Mario Stendari,
Strength: 12,000,')flr signatures,
vienna A1jeE1. 7jt155
Zblication;_ "La Pace"
lr{0" Mather Andria Gaggero.
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anese Moveme
Singing Voices
the 5,000
National Committee against
Bases
National deration for the Defense of the
Constitution, aka
`'League for the Defense of the Constitution
Pres: Jotaro Kawakami
---Gbatrman: Tetsu Katayama
National Council for the Peaceful
Unificati )n of the Fatherland
General Federation of Koreans
" Residing in Japan
4- Chairman: Han Tak-s,u
Gen. See: Yi Kye-pay ek
The New Japan Literary Society
-Tire ].2, 000
Militar: y
-Non-Religious Peace Organization
to f / , , l1
a
Jordan -.Peace, Movement
Members: Isac Madamat, Abd-alj9adir Salah,
- -adtaa Tugan, and 'Adil Sha Ka'a
Japanese Co_mxnittee for Asian Solidarity
Leader.Tokub-e Hanayugi
-Strength: 5,500,000 signaturesjStockholm Appeal 6/19/510
ocean Committee for Asian Solidarity=
under: Mrs. Akiko Seki
ocean stational Peace Committee
Wires: Choc Won-Tack and Ynn Kim
airman: Tan-Sul-Ya
rman: Han . u-
Ch: Pap, Tong-Kon
Korean Painters Union
Q; i i.l Chin-s~or
?_
Korean Writers pion