CONQUEST BY TREASON

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• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 3, 2000
• Sequence Number: 33
• Publication Date: September 20, 1956
• Content Type: NSPR

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CF Y FEET BY TREASON,
Allen W. Miles,
Central Intelligencemoo4+gency, i con-
cerned by a new Kremlin strategy of
"parliamentary conquest", the rincipal
targets of which are Italy, ance and
Indonesia.
Warning against Soviet "peace smiles",
Mr. Dulles took occasion to deplore pub-
licly an apparent indifference of the free
world to the fact that the Russians could
attain control even with minority con-
quests in parliamentary bodies.
He cited situations, indicating impor-
tant Soviet gains in these fields. For ex-
ample, in the Italian Parliament of 590
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It is worth noting that in no country
ave Communists attained a. majorit in
parliamentary o y; is fact tends to
reate a complaisance that is highly
dangerous. -
As Mr. Dullesas warned, the Kremlin
leaders have indicated what they propose
to do. It now is up to the leaders of the
free world to help uncover and frustrate
this Communist design, which otherwise
"could wreck the free institutions of
many countries and even endanger our
own."
members, there now are 143 Communist
nerrebers. To these must be added -75
Nenni fellow-traveling, Left-Wing Social-
ists, or a total of 218, who consistently
vote and act with the Communists. To-
gether, in the last elections in .1953, their
total popular vote was 9,500,0.90 or 35.6 if
percent of the total.
In the French Chamber of iDe uties
there are now approximately ? 15O Com
monist members out of a total oa'bou.t!
600. In Indonesia, the Comml nisi Warty,
received 6,000,000 votes, or 17. percent
of the total electorate in the elections of
September 1955, and they have a' repre-
sentation of 39 members, or 15 percent
of the total 9f the Indonesian Assembly.
Mr. Dulles declared that despite these
official minority representatives, the
Communists have "moved in." Referring
tc recent smile-and-peace pronounce-
ments of the Soviet leaders, he warned,
"Translated into a little less flarnboyraht
language, this means that t:e Ccrm-
munists" propose to infiltrate our free
legislative. systems, to take over our
parliamentary governments, and to use
freedom which our system of govern-
ment gives to destroy all vestiges of that
system.
"A few years _ago, I would have
thought that Communist, parties in
Europe would have great ifficulty in
ever again obtaining allies among any
non-Communist parties. Today, however,
the danger of parliamentary compro-
mises with the Communists, even in
Europe, is not to' be ignored."
The Soviet "parliamentary" approach
to conquest follows a pattern laid down
by Lenin in the 1920s; Communist pene-
trations into free parliaments to date are
farmor'e se r.IQ then +I,- statistics imply.
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