JUST ANOTHER POLITICAL PARTY?

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CIA-RDP70-00058R000100130060-0
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November 17, 2016
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August 3, 2000
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60
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September 5, 1956
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SEP5 1956 HOLYOKE (Mass.) TRANspJIrdGRAMReIease 2000/08/24: CIA-RDP70-00058R000100130060-0 Circ.: ~. 25,899 Front Edit Other Page Pate Page CPYRGHT ust Another Political Party? Do the Communists just natu-I the Communists make no se- a11y prefer to do things the Bret of their interest in gaining and way? There is no reason to political power through regular hink so. Khrushchev and Bul- anin have lately been going political channels. They are skill- bout their regular Russian bus- ed at using the freedoms of par ness in a Dale Carnegie sort of ~ liamentary government for its ay-and why not, if it works? own destruction.. Although they The warning recently issued have never been voted into a ma- y Allen W. Dulles, head of tb jority position, Dulles ? warns entral Intelligence Agency, em that it is also tr4e, that the Com- ?. ` hasizes tea o~'~peaob- munist has move! fo' without hav- 1" penetration tactics are Ii?td- ing a majority status" in some g the guard down in many countries. ountries on the political front. This is a slow r y to g6 about hen fear of the Reds dies gaining territory and not, for the own, they can make consider- Reds, the easiest. The claim of le parliamentary gains. Ole other Mr. th 1les, the,Secre- In Italy, France and Indone- try of State, is that our foreign a the Communists are again tolicy has driven the Russians to aking headway in pa.rliamen- use respectable methods tp gain representation. Dulles told their ends. How easy this( is for .e House Committee on Un-Am= them depends entirely on howl scan Activities that the situa- successful they are in con*ncingI !t on is beginning to get serious': people: they are "just mother; he Reds have 43 members in political ? party," that Russia is e Italian parli eat of 590, and just another country with arms c get the?#uppor of 75 fellow- and steel for sale, and trl'mt th avel.ingditist ialists. In Soviets are better friends to ance, the Reds hake. about 150 have than the nations bf the i ix the Parliament of 800 depu- West. Lt es. s They have found it pretty easy I 11 . Last fall the Communists got to do this in countries where 1 per cent of the vote in In- ?the West is distrusted as iin peri- nesia - they have 39 members alist, and in countries where the Assembly. the fear of war is still dominant, Approved For Release 2000/08/24: CIA-RDP70-00058R000100130060-0