COMMUNISTS SPEND BILLIONS ON FRONTS

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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 10, 1998
• Sequence Number: 77
• Publication Date: February 5, 1954
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Communists Spend Billions on Fronts
n i ea o e ex ent the Communist
conspiracy to dominate the world is being
spread has been given by Allen Dulles, di-
rector of the ntral Intelligence Agency,
who estimates $ i ?fon a year 1.irdifg
spent. for "front" organizations in free
world countries.
Thanks to the Federal Bureau of In-
vestigation, the Communist organizations
with fine-sounding names have scant po-
litical effectiveness in the United States,
but that is not true everywhere. Two bil-
lion dollars will buy a lot of propaganda
and the Kremlin must feel that it is getting
its money's worth.
Mr Dulles in a talk to the ;Women's
Forum. on National Security in Wash-
ington cited the Women's International
Democratic. Federation as a Communist
front organization which alone costs about
~6 Million -a year.
People who take names at face value
would be deceived by that of the federa-
tion. In all likelihood it is having fair
success in countries where the real pur.
pose of front organizations has not -been
unmasked.
It is organizations such as this which
plot A he "spontaneous", demonstrations
from time to time carry forward Com-the munist line. Fresh in .memo the
demonstrations in many town t the
time Julius and Ethel Rose the
atomic spies, were executed. 7n ou tedly
thousands df persons who themselves op-
pose Communism took part in the demon-
strations, because they were not aware
that they were fomented by the Commu-
nists to create dislike for the United States.
Unfortunately, citizens of some' of the
countries on our side of the Iron Curtain
have not been informed of the threat
posed by these organizations. Until these
people become aware of their true pur-
pose, the Kremlin will be able to eat away
at the foundations of their liberty as ter-
mites undermine a building.
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