ACTIVITIES OF ANGELO TASCA, ALIAS ANGELO ROSSI

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009900220007-6
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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 22, 1999
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: February 6, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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10 Tnaca makos a vex7'forceful i tpare* ion. because of his forthrightness and
the obvious autZority with which he speaks on the French and Itp-Lian Con-
uniat 'artiest' pavticulazily the lat ro According to Tasca4 s state mont,
during the years immediately fo ..l owin the formation of the Portkco Cow,
mnistalt aliano (PCX;, Italian Cor aLnist Party) r he along with Antonio
Gramsei, Falmiiro Togliatti, and Umberto Torrar.ini, determined the P01 line,,
Tasca ;until 1927 occupied the position of Controller of the French Ccm-
mtinist Patty. According to his statement one of the few times that Stalin
went in person to speak at the Cam:hxtern was In order to counteract the
th.esi3 which Tasea urns proparin.g, to st ,to before that organizati on0 I
the late 1930's Tasca states that he had almost persuaded. Togliatti to
leave the PCIL Aacodi' to Tasca Togliatti did not e up his mind to
leave tbe' Party because he was afraid of the physioaJ. conse'quonces n Tas a
added that In his opinion there was 7p mince of Togliatti's over - very-
ing f:,-om the Moscow line In the prose zt or 1n.. the,' future In view of his
bta, .*K ound ? nd psychological make-up.
20 Te.sca described Aldo Cucnhi and Valdo 14r.tgnani as never having boo ctreal
Co xistaotc He atatod further that Cuc i and MMEagnani do not know, nor
do they and .*stand, the Coa uraist Party language,, Therefore, their
sp aeches, writi g, and appeal ?iow on a di " 'erent level f arc i the PCI aid
have no effect on the true PCI bureaucrats v In Tasca' a opinion j, the Cucohi
and Rtgwni movement had two pointy of advantage during its initial period
of development:
a0 They represented a thorn chich forced the PCX leadership to race
problems internal, ideological and organizational -- which other-
Arise it would have attempted to Ignore; and
b,, They have had opportunities for capillary work among the lo+tar level
PCI membership.
30 Thereforo, the leadership of the Italian Workers Movemont should not force
thca pace and particularly aoul.d not staecumb to the temptation of incorpora-
tiom or identifj!ation with the moderate So h listay :3:,ea.
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