ORGANIZATION AND ACTIVITIES OF THE SPANISH COMMUNIST PARTY

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• Publication Date: December 1, 1948
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Or anisation'of the Spanish Communist Party
1 The Spanish Communist Party0s directorate is composed of the Central Com-
mittee, the Political Bureau, the Central Secretariat? and the Central
Control Commission. Within the general frameworks it is deertiod advisable
to keep the structure of the Party as flexible as possible so that it may
serve, at any given no,aent, as an efficient instrument for the attainment
of the Party ?a aims..
2? The Central Committee: Theoretically, all members of the Central Com-
Mtt;e are e eof fit a special plenary session of the Party. Horwver,
the plenary session hold in Paris in 1946 authorized the elected Central
Committee to designate its owtn new nmmborsa either as replaoemento or as
additions. Consequontlyp many of the currently known active members of
the Central Committee have not been elected by a plenary session, Mox?oover?,
there are members of the Committee who have not been acknowledged publicly
as such,, and whose names are being kept secret. Inside Spain, General Juan
MODESTO Guilloto is the only one of the five-member Central Committee who
has been appointed by a plenary session,
Responsibility for various functions is distributed, among Central Committee
members. Such functions are: -Central Committee sections,, variable in number
and importance; Regional directorates; Political Bureau assistants, in
charge of inspection and control and of principal liaisons
4, Ow or more members are attached to ea - section of the Central Committee;
when there are several members, they form a commission; for example, the
Military Commission and the Agitation and Propaganda Commission,, One person
may be responsible for more than one section of the Central Committee. The
presidents of the commissions or the "responsible" individuals of the sections
are, by virtue of their positions, members of the Secretariat,, together with
the members of the Political Bureau..
& As of 6 November 1948 the ?;eoticros of the Central. Commmittee of the Spanish
Communist Party were; Matters concerning the Interior (Cara al Interior);
Agitation and Propaganda; Youth; Women; Labor Union Action; Finances;
Fight against Terrorism; Political Studies; 80'ononic Studies; Social'
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Studies; Military; Uassea; Vigilance within the Party; International
Policy. Jurisprud n ss Aid and Solidarity; Action against the Imperi-
allot War; Relations (Liaison )l Regulation of the Sale and Distribution
of Products of the Party (iaea, the products of-Party-owned enterprises)3
Special Auxiliary 8eotion (for translations,, compilations, and statistics);
Cadreas Fight against Anti-Caatmunieez and (for) Unified Rorber Action;
Special Sections for Regional Control v five for Western Europe. except
3reat Britain,, Ireland,, Portugal and Spain; Political Information; Se-
ourity information on the Party and its Active Members; and Campaign for
the Republican Democratic Front4
The following Party leaders are officially members of the CentraX Cocmittees
Dolores IBARRURI Gomes Irons do PAWC93 Vicente URIBE Galdeanos Antonio
MIJE Garcias Francisco Felix ? TIEL Giuzensz; General Ignacio HIfl&LGO DE
CISNEROB; Colonel Enrique LISTER Forjsn; Angel GAIARZA; Esteban VEDA
Belinchong Luis CABO Glories Luca DEIAGE; Mauro ARROYO; Fernando CIAUDIN
Jiarenog Federico MML HOR; Santiago CARRILLO 8olarea; Francisco ANTCN
Sans. ARC(ADA.;, Ifaauel AZGA.W& E Dix (sio) f Angel ALVAREZ Perez g
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The following are' members of the Central Committee,
although not aoknow a ge o o Way an euohs Colonel Juan "Cessrt? BIAZQUEZ;
Jesus, IZCARAYa Manuel GIIEN0g ARGUELLES (fnu) g PRADA Baron, Major GIL
Veloso. in North Africa as of early Novomberg and SANCHO (fnu) who, ac-
cording to sourcev may now be in the United States.
8t, Lt4 Colonel Luis BELTRAN Castillo. as of 6 November,, was still under sus-
pension as an active member of the Party and as a member of the Central
Comaitteec. -
9,- The Political Bureau; members of the political Bureau of the Spanish
omanuniat arty who are elected by a plenary session arc also members of
the Central Committee.. Political Bureau members can be "responsible"
members' of sections and presidents of couanissionap with the exception of
- the Central Control Commission, of which they are ox-officio members with
a voice but without a vote, In addition, Political Bureau members control
the Central Secretariat. the executive organ of the Party,
10? The zxtmober of members of the Political Bureau is variable. A resolution of
the plenary session of 1946 permits the Political Bureau, if two-thirds of
the members of the Central Committee agree, to inoreaeo o replace, or do-
eisass the membership, without hording a plorrary session, Up to catly
November this resolution had never been applied., The Political Bureau in
responsible for determining the political line of the Party and for making
decisions when a meeting of the Central Committee is not feasible.,
12. The Political Bureau of the Spanish Coma iat Party is composed of the
following members, whose duties as of 6 November were as indicated.-
Dolores IBBRIUTRI Gomez, Secretary General
Vicente URIBE GaUaano, Secretary General in charge of Political
Affairs
Antonio MLJE Garcia, Secretary General in charge of organization
Francisco ANTON Sans, Assistant to URIBE
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Santiago GARRILLO Solaree, Assistant to ULJE
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the duties of the members. (Se. bfor previous information an their
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12. The Central Control Commissions General Antonio CQRDC iaroia, President
o the i cry ss on` as presides over the Central Control Com-
mission of the Spanish Communist Party In addition, CORDCbi is responsible
for safeguarding the archives of the Party. The Central Control Con iasion
is important because of two functions for ahiah it is -responsible: to see
that orders from the Directorate are oarried out and to handle questions
of discipline, This Commission also must be informed on matters concerning
the transfer of cadres to the Interior "
Activities of the Spanish Communist Party
13? A quiet movement toward the East has been occurring for two or three months,
By early November certain commissions, the Archives and important cadres
of the Party had been transferred to and set up in Poland and Czechoslovakia.
Some discontent has resulted.among the rank-and-file mamberso who anticipate
possible abandonment by their leaders in time of danger. This discontent
is most evident amour, the families of the dead or imprisoned guerrillas"
14., The present lack of cadres in the Party is a natter of concern,, Cuba,
Mexico and France have in the past supplied most of the leaders to the
Interior., General Luis FEIiNANDDZ failed in his mission to Mexico to recruit
and train elements which could be sent to Spain as Party cadres and guerrillas,,.
Consequently, the Party has been forced to modify its plans and to dip into
the reserve in the Soviet Union, where a great many Spanish Communists had
been under instruction with a view to the formation of cadres for trade union
organizations and for economic and social activity? A school already exists
in Rumania, according to source, where a large number of Spanish Communists
from the USSR are being trained for direction of the Communist Party inside
Spain and for guerrilla leadership,,
16, The Spanish Communist Party as of early November was concentrating on four
tasks,, two concerning Spain itself and two of an international nature, as
follows s
a) insurrectional aotivity and the creation of the Central Council
of the Resistance,;
b) the creation of a Spanish Republican Democratic. Front l0br -inter-
vention in the administrative sphere;
c) an international campaign to combat the idea of the inevitability
of war with the Soviet Union;
d) the discrediting of the Marshall Plan and of. sal aid conditioned
on anti-Communism,
16. Party members attribute great importance to problems of an internal nature
such as purging,, formation of oadres, clone contact with the working masses,
especially inside Spain, and a oampaiga of justification for the past atti-
tude of Party. leaders regarding suoh groups as the Union Naeional (Eepagola),
the NEGRIN Socialists and the U*vimiento de Unidad Republicena (Republican
Unity Movement),,
17. Ordinarily the meetings of the Directorate of the Party are held in Paris
at Number 33 Rue de is Grange-auxxBelles (Maaison des Syndieats)a The meetings
of sow comnissionao in particular the Agitation and Propaganda Commission,,
are hold at Number 8 Avenue Mathurin-Moreau,, Recently,, some meetings have
beeh held fn the offioe-of LOT ante and even in coffee shops owned or
managed by Communists, This m io appears to be used a great deal by the
Military Conmiissioin, Many meetings of the Political Bureau have been hold
recently without the attendanoe of Dolores IBARRURU or Vicente URIBEO All
meetings held by the Political Bureau which involve discussion of matters
relating to the insurrectional oempai,gn and to the guerrilla campaign are
attended by Colonel Enrique LISTER and Irene de FALCCI+i.
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i8, Individuals who have applied for ac.asion to the party since add-1947
frequently have been asked to avoid becoming known as Co=w ists)es-
pecially if they are politically significant in other groups Angel
G IARZAD a member of the Central Committee, acts as liaison between the
Party and such persons and inatruats them in the special tasks whioh are
assigned to them. According to souroea it is possible that some of these
individual.' still are members of other groups,such as the Union Qenerai
de Trabajadores (Ix T) and the WEGRIM Socialist faction0 Source considers
that therm is no doubt that the Spanish Communist Party has also in-
filtrated the PRIETO Socialist group and the Contederaoion Nacional del
~S*?ft (CNT).
19` in a country like Franoeo where there are numerous
HE ve Communists, the USSR is not likely to use Spanish Communists for
espionage since their yield would be small and their activity could
create serious problemoa fioweverd source believes it possible that the
Spanish Communist Party is being used in Connection with the Yugoslav
situation because under the guise, of a08i,opanodYugoslav Society", the
Spanish Communists maintains, in the port of Split. warehouses of armament
destined for Spain,
20., The Spanish Communist Party has sent arms and other materiel into Spain,
especially across the Pyres frontier, Of the two sea bases which also
have been used for this purpose, one is located in Marseilles, and the
other somewhere in North Africa, Source believes that Major VSRDUN (fnu)
may 'be in charge in Marseilles and Captain SOBRIN0 and Commissar FUSTEk
may be is charge at the North African base, When the Marseilles base was
established several Party military men were sent there, but at present
almost all of them have not up their residence in the Department of the
Basses Pyrennees?
22.' In.mediately following the Liberation of France$ aecor tng to sourceD the
guerrillas established a depot of small transmitters, four of which were
later sent to Spain. Some of the remaining transmitters may be in use at
the present tiazlb broadcasting from cone Pyrenean forestry development
22. The Communist Party inside Spain is virtually autonomous under the leader-
ship of a Central Committee Delegation with extensive
liaison officer at present is a former combat lieutenanntwcalledT?6VICENTEF"a2
who replaced Major GIL Veloso,-
234 The Spanish Communist Party is represented in the capacity of an observer
at Cominfozm meetings,, Its representative commission in composed of Vicente
URSBE General Antonio CQ)( and a certain B&RREi. (Pnu). former Com-
missar of the Republican Navy and at present in the USSR,
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