WFDY ACTIVITY IN ASIA AND LATIN AMERICA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00046R000500360007-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 26, 2013
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: November 1, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT INFORMATION REPORT
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which In any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
COUNTRY
Hungary/Asia/Western Hemisphere
SUBJECT WFDY Activity in Asia and Latin
America
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1. The Colonial Section of the Liaison Bureau worked very hard to pro-
mote the influence of the World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY)
in. all colonial countries of Asia.-L Its propaganda continually
pointed out tb,,thelindependettzcountries"c5fdlaiatheleVils.(ofAest-
ern"oolonialusm4.a. however, thisc tactic did not differ greatly
frowthatc used in the non-Communist countPies.
In its attempt to influence Asia, the WFDY sponsored sports events,
"ban-the-bomb" petitions, travel for non-Communist students to WFDY
functions, etc. Relatively more money was spent on Asia than any
other target area and, occasionally, the WFDY even bought mimeo-
graphing machines, typewriters, sports equipment, clothing, accor-
&Jana, etc.sfor the use of the Asian delegations which attended WFDY
functions. For example, a large number of such gifts was given to
the various /titian delegations which attended the International Gather-
ing of Rural Youth in Vienna during December 1954.
Although the leaders of WFDY were generally complacent regarding
their work in most parts of the world, they were particularly self-
satisfied about Asia. At the WFDY Headquarters in Budapest, a *tory
circulated which claimed that Bruno Bernini, president of the WFDY,
'IPA so aroused the militant youth of the Philippines with a speech
oz colonialism in Peking during August 1954 that a riot resulted. in
which 60 persons were killed. 4 No one at WFDY Headquarters found
this story hard to believe.
4. WFDY Headquarters %ay so busy preparing for its World Congress in
Warsaw during summer 195 that little vas being done in the
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Latin American countries with the exception of organizing national
festival committees to arrange for as many Latinc-American youth as
possible to attend the Congress in Warsaw.
1. omment: WFDY considered Africa, non-Communist Asia, and
Contra and South America to be "ooloniAl ncenntriaA"
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