RECENT ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY IN FINNISH COMMUNIST PARTY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005000400006-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 17, 1999
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: May 26, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Finland
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SUBJECT Recent Organizational Policy of Finnish
Communist Party
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The following information was presented by Finnish delegates before the
meeting of Scandinavian Social Democratic Party representatives which eras
held in Stockholm on 16 and 17 March 1950.
1, The Finnish Communists, like Communists in other Scandinavian countries,
have been engaged in building up their organizational apparat in order to
establish better control over individual members and their votes. This
endeavor has apparently been more successful in Finland than elsewhere in
the North, and in the past few months the Communists have become the
prevailing group in trade union elections, in the sports societies,
cooperative societies, and so forth.
2. The Comrn;niste had doubled the number of Party employees in northern Finland
in order to exploit the expected unemployment there. Since unemployment
has not risen in that area as much as had, been anticipated (present figure
is about 20,000), this effort has been wasted to some extent, and the
increased number of Communist officials in north Finland is not, thus far,
reflected by a corresponding increase in Communist influence.
This docume is hereby regraded to
CONFIDENTIAL accordance with the
tatter of 16 Oc er 1978 from the
Director of Central telligence to the
Archivist of the Unit States.
Next Review Date: 200
Sanitized - Approved For Release : CIA-RDP82-004
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