ACTIVITY OF THE PS (SIIS)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009600450001-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 20, 2000
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: December 12, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL 1N1 LLI ENCE: AGENG
INFO I: REPORT
COUNTRY Italy
SUBJEC'T' Activity of the PS (SITS)
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REPORT NO.
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DATE DISTR.
12 Dec y 1951
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1. An agreement is reported to have been reached between Giuseppe Sara.
gat and Giusepre Romita whereby they will present a common list of
party candidates at the next Partito Socialista ... Sczione Italiana
dell' Internazion-el..e Socialists (PS -(SITS); Socialist Party - Tt0 4 env, Ane-
tion of the Socialist International) party congress. Candidate for the Harty
secretariat will be Paolo Eoasi, university professor at Genoa and a
member of the party directorate who is, moreover, highly regarded in
North Italian industrial circles.
2.. Saragat and P?ovAta will let the right and left currents of the party
present their own lists, hoping meanwhile that Do Gaspers will clarify
his ideas on the possibility of PS (SIIS) participation in the govern-
ment, and on a shift of cabinet posts? With an eye to such clarifica-
tions, Eomita has already had Alberto Simonini raise the matter With
the Prime t ,inister.
3. Do Gasperi gave Simonini no assurances of any kind. Romita'a reactions,
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upon learning the outcome of the conversation, were decidedly impatient.
He observed that if Do Gasperi continued in this fashion, the PS (5213)
would be brought to a position of absolute opposition.
Meanwhile, the leftist currents of the party continue their pressure
to bring the paarty into an anti-government position. Their opposition
extends to the governunent'',a present foreign policy.
Meetings have recently been held anions flomita, Saragat and Giuseppe
Dossetti?
6. For the past several weeks, Carlo Andreoni has been In North Italy
allegedly on family business. It is reported, however, that he is
actively engaged in lining up support to assure himself of a najor-
ity in a number of federations when the party congress opens?
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