SOVIETS DONNING SHEEP'S CLOTHING, CIA CHIEF SAYS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000100130069-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 3, 2000
• Sequence Number: 69
• Publication Date: September 2, 1956
• Content Type: NSPR

SHERMAN (Tex.) S E F. 1956
DEMO%%Toved For Release 2000/08/24: CIA-RDP70-00058R000100130069-1
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Soviets Donning
Sheep's Clothing,
#JALhief Says,
len W, Dulles, chief of the Cen-
trai Intelligence Agency, said to-j'
da?v communism is putting on a
respectable front to penetrate the
governments of countries it can
no longer overawe with force.
in a study prepared for the
louse Committee on Un-American
Activities, Dulles said Commu-
ynists now must "see their greatest
uiwortunities" in countries such asi
It---fly,. France and Indonesia.
't'hese are among the countries. 1
he wrote,, where Communists
' fin vr' the strongest penetrations
into the i-iarli.amentary machinery,
ri1 free governments."
Coasting Speeches
The CIA director quoted from
-haL he said were boasting
pees hes of Russian and satellite
iraaclers to show that Communistic !
were prepared to take over a
?:ountry when they achieved, not
i majority, but a substantial min-1,
ririLy in its legislature. In every!
,r.+_;e "with the qualified excep-~
tilno-, of Czechoslovakia and Guat-
he said, they were helped;
rii the takeover by the presence!
K1r immediate threat of armed.
force.
Dulles said that, thanks to the
free world alliances the United
States has helped build, "there
are few places in the world where
a free country is so at the mercy
of Soviet or Communist Chinese
orce as the satellites stood in
945-47."
Power In Parliament
He said that in Italy there are
43 Communist th d 15 left-wing,
Socialist members in a pt?rlia-
went of 590, in France about 150
ommunist members in a cham-
er of about 600 and in Indonesia
9 Communist parliament mem-
ers representing 16 per cent of
he total.
Dulles said it is a"sign of dan-
ger" whenever Communists "ob
Lain an effective minority position I
n any parliamentary body" and !
hat if in addition "they have im-
iortant places in the government
nd in particular control the min-
stries of defense and interior.;
iien the a.n Pr i ~_
?tinted W464 11des se 2
"M 4-. rive for a Communist take...