THE APPARAT OF KKE

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• Publication Date: November 26, 1948
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1. KKE uses the term "Apparat" in the special sense of an advisory body of
experts on various subjects to whom the Party can refer. The members are
for the most part intellectuals, many of them having literary, journalistic,
academic, scientific or professional qualifications, and in general have a
higher standard than the Party leaders. ?
2. This body seems to have no exact parallel in any other Communist Party.
The reason for its existence seems to be that intellectuals have exceptionally
little share in the leadership of KKE (Miltiades Porphyrogenis, a lawyer with
a bourgeois background is one of the few exceptions); this is evidently a
deliberate policy, and the leaders seem determined to keep control in
"proletarian" hands. However, realizing their weakness, they have established
the Apparat to give advice without sharing in the leadership.
3. Apparats have been established on both National and Regional levels. In'
addition to the Apparat of the Central Committee, each Regional Committee
and also. the Communist organizations of Athens (KOA) and_Piraeus (KOP)
(which rank as Regional Committees) have their own Apparatso
It. The Apparat never meets or functions as a body. Only a member or members
qualified to give advice on a particular subject are consulted on this subject.
Vii. There is no fixed number for the membership of an Apparat. Anyone with
suitable qualifications can be made a member at any time. Also, not all
members of the Apparat belong to the Party; in certain cases they are more
useful if they do not do so.
Siganos, member of the Central Control Cormriittee ).
6. In addition to its main function, the Apparat is also used to accommodate
certain Party members temporarily not holding any position in the more
formal hierarchy (e.g. members of the Central Committee who fail to secure
re-election, provided they have not been guilty of misconduct). A number
of KKEos representatives abroad are also members of the Apparat (e.g.
Theodore Doganis in London, Melpo Axioti and Seraphim Maximos?in Paris,
Vasilios Georgiou in Warsaw and formerly in Paris).
7. When a member of the Apparat is given a new appointment, he usually ceases
to belong to the Apparat. -~here are, however, some exceptions to the rule
.(e.g. Lemonitsa Reboutsika, member of the Athens Finance Committee: loannis
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The Central Finance Committee, the Political Contacts Section and the
Regional Committees were chiefly responsible for the recruiting of new
members. If one of these bodies discovered an individual potentially
suitable for the Apparat of a Regional Committee, his name would be for-
warded to the Regional Committee in whose area he lived, and the question
of whether or not he would be taken on would be discussed at the next
meeting of the Regional Committee concerned. If, on the other hand, the
candidate had qualifications which suited him for a position in the
Apparat of the Central Committee, his name would be sent direct to the
Central Committee or the Politburo. Similarly, if a Regional Committee
considered that one of the members of its own Apparat was qualified for the
Central Committee, his name was forwarded to the Central Committee or the
Politburo.
9. In addition to the above, the senior Satellite organizations in each region
(the Regional Committee of EAI, of National Solidarity (E.A.) and of the
MAIM Panhellenic Youth Organization(EPON), and the senior Trades Union
Committees) might propose the name of suitable candidates. Thereafter the
procedure would be the same as when candidates were proposed by the Central
Finance Committee, the Political Contacts Section or the KKE Regional Com-
mittees.
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APPENDIX "A" (MARL 948)
Members ,of Apparat of Central Committee
Constantine Varnalis
loannis Kordatos
.Dr. loannis Sigano8
Theodore Doganis
Seraphim Maximos
Constantine GavrielidEs
Constantine Despotopoulos
Vasilios Georgiou
Demetrius Soteriou
Demetrios )'.otiades
Vasilios Damisianos
G. (fnu) Valetas
loannis Stogiannis
Varkas (fnu)
Melpo Axioti
L'mi1ios Veakis
Rose Imvrioti
Nikolaos Kitsikis
Christos Kavaafakis
Elias Eliou
Vasilios Rotas
Author.
Historian.
Doctor of Medicine. Member of Central
Control Committee.
Journalist. EA representative in
London.
Journalist. EABM/KIE representative in
Paris.
Leader of the Agrarian Party of Greece.
Fanner lecturer, Athens University.
Journalist. EAM/KKEE representative in
Warsaw, formerly in Paris.
Expert on education.
Author.
Doctor.
UM Panhellenic Youth Organization -
Eamike Panellenike Organosis Neolaias (EPON).
Former diplomat.
Authoress. Greek representative in Paris
of World Federation of Women.
Actor.
Author (arrested 8 July 1917)?
President of the Greek-Soviet League.
Former Principal of Athens Polytechnic School.
Journalist.
Lawyer.
Author. One of the founders of the Greek-
Soviet League.
Author of musical comedies?
`Author. was reported in July 19117 to be
Reser+re President of Central Finance Coin-
riittee in case of the arrest of senior
members of this committee?
Chemist. Member of the Athens Finance
Committee.
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George Zoutos
Marcos Varvoglis
Sophia Delta
Lager. Former member of the editorial staff
of Rieoa etie,and a party theorist. was re-
ported :n early March 1948 to be used as a
high-grade courier between the Party in Athens
and the Rebel Junta.
Composer and male critic. Political Commissar
for musicians,
Journalist. Former political reporter on
Rizospastis. Was reported in January 1948 to
have organized a school for diplomats in
"Free" Greece.
Spyros Karantonie Journalist. Former reporter for Rizospastis
and Communist Review.
Tbeodore Vochos Journalist (arrested 30 March 1948).
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Members of Apparat of KCA.
Well known author and translator of English
literature. One of the founders of Greek
Soviet League.
Elias F1iou Lawyer, usually employed to defend Party
members and officials in Athens.
Sophia Mavridi-?apadaki Well known author and writer of poetry. An
official of the Pan-Hellenic Women's Federation -
a KKE satellite organization.
Nikolaos Roussopouloe Professor of the Athens Polytechnic School.
Formerly of the Athena Committee for the Campaign
for Survival,
Demosthenes Miraegetzis Lawyer. Also employed to defend KKE members.
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