V. POLISH UNITED WORKERS PARTY (PZPR) ORGANIZATION IN FRANCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-02771R000200390010-4
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 26, 1998
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• Content Type: REPORT

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V. POLISH UNITED WORKERS PARTY (PZPR) ORGANIZATION. IN.FRANCE 1
The Polish United Workers Party (PZPR) has no organiza-
tion in France apart from cells, organized on strictly
conspiratorial lines, the membership of which is restricted
to accredited Polish officials. Each cell is under the
immediate direction of its secretary, elected from and by
the membership of the cell itself. The cells in turn are
directed by a seven-member Party Committee elected for one
year by the cell secretaries and a few trusted comrades,
and not by the members as a whole.
Because the Party Committee has no legal status in
Prance and is conspiratorial in nature, it has no declared
seat of operations. The identity of guiding personalities,
considerations of operational convenience and the avail-
ability of respectable cover leads to the conclusion that
the headquarters of the Party Committee is in the Polish
Embassy in Paris.
Members of each cell know the identity of their own
secretary but do not know the identity of the secretary
of any of the other cells. Neither do the cell members
know the members of the Party Committee.
The entire PZPR organization or operation is under the
supervision and control of the PZPR Representative for
France who has not been identified since early 1950.
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The PZPR is composed of Polish officials only and all
Party organizations and activities exist at its pleasure.
Through its membership, it maintains influence over the
direction and control of all political, cultural, religious,
commercial, industrial and financial activities sponsored
by the Polish Government concerning the Polish colony in
France,
The political and propaganda operations of the Polish
Embassy and Consulates in France are controlled from the
Office of Foreign Affairs of the PZPR Central Committee in
Poland. The direction of the propaganda program itself is
specifically delegated to two departments of the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs: the Department of Press and Information
and the Office for Poles Abroad. 1
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