AUSTRIAN COMMUNIST-PARTY PLAN TO SPLIT THE SOCIALIST PARTY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002200200003-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 23, 1998
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: December 3, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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CL'.SS!FICATION `=i t/COi1 0L - U. s. DFFICIIL" 1N
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
NFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY Austria
^rSUBJECT Austrian fi . aniet-Party Plan
DATE DISTR. 22 December 1918
NO. OF PAGES 1
NO. OF ENCLS.
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West pointed to the pawphlet as evidence of a rift in thf
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At a meeting of Sections 1, 3, and 4 of District II of the Austrian Co uniot
Party in a cafe at 10 Schiffamtsgasse, Vienna II, Franz West, member of the
CP Central C+ittee, discuseed Erwin Scharf' L-
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2. in the course of the ensuing discussion, West cited the followin Socialist
officials who could be useful to the CP in ,the event of the formation of an
Austrian people's democrmay:
Erwin Scharf
LOA ii oa Friedrich Hi (trade union re
Hilde Krone pre~ntative)
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Sieberer (fnu 0 trade
Tochenetz (fnu)
Hindeis (f=) (Central Headquarters Socialist party)
3. :Jest advised inciting -or?er menbers of the Austrian ^ohutzbund against the
present Socialist Party and persuading Socialists that their leadership is
dominated by capitalism. He pointed out that ^,ohayf'e pamphlet mentions the
fact that Oscar Pollak had c to Vienna at'the request of the British Forum
Office.
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West indicated that an Austrian crisis in due next spring; he stated that the
USA is already counting on the loss of eastern Austria. He said that capital-
ists are sending their assets to western Austria, and that this is the basis
for Soviet insistence on the delivery to them of railroad uar booty. Accord-
ing to West, the spring tour will not be accompanied t r violence, since the
USA cannot risk a weir over Austria zphasised that all his statements
must be regarded as confidential. I-ople It must be kept 'in rand
that these my be 'test's personal ons and :mw not even reflect the pre-
vail3ng opinions of the CP Central Cotamittee.)
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