PEKING SETS UP RIVAL COMINTERN TO SOV[ ]

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100040014-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 17, 1999
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: January 4, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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By Seymour Freidin ple, the Indonesian Consulate Known to be Included that's built up, activists
Executive Ediror, Foreign New ; in Calcutta to pay. off pro- within the network besides 'maintain, then a similar oiler.
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tional apparatus, still some-
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A fledgling group, com-
- 4% Chinese Malayans, Indians, Africa.
Apart from Communist Koreans, Japanese, Ceylonese Afterwards, when 'liaison China's active and supervi- and Thais. They are dis- in politico-economic fields
sory role in Viet Nam, tributed in key, strategic cen- has proved fruitful, they can
Cambodia and Laos, the in- , ters of, their own countries. be fused harmoniously. The
ternational network is of Where their nationality is of United Nations is pooh-pooh-
prime political importance. no especial hindrance, ~ as ed-Indonesia has just an-
it means that Peking has Chinese. in Malaysia, they nounced it, will quit the VN-
put together a global organ- operate frodf-home base, so and the appeal Is couched
ization, loyal to Red China, to speak, with. Red Chinese directly to underdeveloped
as distinct from, the Soviet funds at their disposal. nations in Asia and Africa,
Union. Some of the pay-off meri with emphasis on Asia first.
For some time before his at the Indonesian Consulate The Indonesian Communist
downfall, ex-Soviet Premier An Calcutta=-_suddenly closed party, third largest in the
1Khrushchev tried : hard to world after Red China and
,retread a modern version of by were planted Indonesia, d, by y the active way and - + the, USSR, has drawn the
the' Comintern. That was agile D. N. Aidit,Indonesian biggest . inside-man assign-
the Soviet-created interns- 41,
nlent to spread the word and
tional apparatus, officially be
Communist has In a sho orty time trouble in Asia. Control of the
liquidated In 1943 to satisfy ma par trusted confidant tInternational, for which no
war time Western Allies. But become ctime particular name is yet known,
of the higherups of 'the Chi-,, it continued to operate under Is vasted totally . In Red
other guises until the Com- nese party, China's party leaders,
, Forgotten is his long de-
inform Which served for Eu- votion to Mr. Khrushchev.
rope only ' ands died in the' His turn-around to Red
early '50s. China has been complete and
Red China, in the view of useful. It was Mr. Aidit, as
profoundly upset non-aligned the Herald Tribune disclosed
governments,, in Asia, beat on Dec. 15, who brought
Russia to the punch with the ;'-President Sukarno an offer.
new network. .i of Chinese communist aid.
guerrilla and military spe-
cialists to help against Ma-
laysia. ' . .
In some of the subversive
,political work ,undertaken by
the China-s~onsored interns
,
nd tional, a spcclal Asian group
comrades .. from . Africa and'
Latin America, ing 13 cited as an objective: if.
prised of ? pro-Chinese, com-
munist splinters In some
European parties, have some-
thnig like "observer" -status,
The same role Is prudently
apportioned to . pro-Peking
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what loose in organization
but operative, has taken the
field to win partisans and
terrorize enemies on a large
scale.
Its capabilities and wide-
'spread extent throughout
'Asia were indicated last week
in -India. Without warning,
security police swooped on
nearly 1,000 pro-Chinese in
the Indian Communist' party
and locked them up.
This was only the begin-
ning.. Discovered . through'
investigation was the role
of Indonesian . Communists
and diplomats, serving as
paymasters and intelligence
agents for Red China inside
India. They used, for exam-