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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000400620002-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 3, 1999
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: March 2, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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The Institute saint- Paris now is serving as 'meeting
~, for the Catholic and Ort iodox
Churches ance. Here Father Jean Christ Dumont
bead of the Darinican Studies Center, Istins Tr uth%
keeps in Close. touch with Abbe 1ugrapheKo'a,evskg, director
and guiding spirit of the Institute.
2. Back of these meetings is the story of Sovalevs 's attest
to use the St. Photius Brotherhood, of whtoh h2 Is said to be
axe of the leader3, to spread Conmzdst propagsnda in Western
Europe (see A-70085), The Brotherhood, which 1s connected
with the Moscow Patriarchate, organized the church or the
Western Rite of the Orthodox Religion to group Catholics
dissenters who adopted Orthodoxy.
3. Also there is the st of Dominican Father Dumont's staff of
Russians who produaadstina in Lille for three years before
World War IS (see SO-2 ij Among his collaborators was
Nicolas *ak3akov,, son of the former Minister of tt..3 Interior
of ]erial Russia whose name was given in 30..2321 as Georges
Maklakov, nephew of the former Russian Ambassador to Paris.
In an interview with source, Father Dumont said that the
Istina group is encouraging collaboration between Christian
awes, but is mainly interested In making many cc eotions
with Russian Orthodoxy. With this In mind the Is tins group
has published the first issue of Russia and Chr'.stisrit: which
will appear four time a year. -a n s s e
wants to help the Orthodox Church because he fees that the
interests of his church are identical with it, He says that
this attitude mekea the Catholic Church show great sympathy for
the Patriarchal Church of Russia which he says is the only
prow-ter of Christian Ideology in the ';USSR.
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Father Wont said he opposed the Catholic Clwr'ob'e
a position roC,e-rdinv the ezoi +e. faction of the Pate:
Cburah, as he says his role Is merely to maintain Caritfflt 25X1X
vita all branches of the Russian Church. Mt,
Sore Chevioh of the pro-Soviet parish of the xue Petel In
Pars.
6. Some of his collaborators have gone too tar in their loyalty
to the Soviet aoveramont, Father Dumont observed In the
interview, but he says that charge cannot be made or ]1*. Ih
his lectures throughout France, be said, he explains the
Soviet aovertmentna attitude towards the church as a mare
political expediency and not as the result of moral or 25X1X
spiritual cc iderations . when the two
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dignitaries autos of the itosoow Church? Arohbishops Ptiotive
a Gregory were in Paris 3.ae t ssui nr, Father Dumont saw
these frequently. Father Dumont said that he thought G
was a spiritual man sincerely devoted to the work of, re'l~ul d-
tag the Russian Church. Ho believed that Photins was 1iil
to nake many ocmprceni.e_s with the Soviet Oo ernzeent.- :tithe..
Dvmitt said that the Hosoow olorgymen were powerless to zee --
the slightest decision withqut the approval of the Govern ntoa
representatives in the Group directed by lCarpov eharged with
Orthodox Church affairs.
7. Patbor Dumont said that he believed the Vatican has not yet
fully realized the need to,abandon Its eeoul.9r attitude of
treating other dencediiationa as rivals, but that, while with-
holding its approval, it still has not interfered with hint.
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national defense of the united States edtin the
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32 as aided, Its t*anss scion or the revelatto a
of Its contents ins yr msn:atr to an maanthortsed ,
person is prohibited t lea.
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