IV. POLISH COMMUNIST ORGANIZATIONS OPERATING IN OR AGAINST FRANCE

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IV. POLISH COMMUNIST ORGANIZATIONS OPERATING
IN OR AGAINST FRANCE
LIST A - Official Polish Government and Party Organizations
I. Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza (PZPR) (Polish Com-
munist Party) - (elements in France.)
II. Repatriation Organizations in Poland.
A. Government Plenipotentiary for Repatriation Affairs.
B. Association for Liaison with Poles Abroad, "Polonia."
III. Ministries and Agencies
A. Commission of State Security - (directs. operations
in France)
B. Ministry of Internal Affairs - (supports operations
in France)
C. Ministry of Defence
1. 2nd Department of General Staff (0.11) - (elements
in France).
2. Main Department for Information of General Staff
(GZI) - (elements in France).
Polska Zbrojna (Official organ of the Ministry
o Defence)
D. 'Ministry of Foreign Trade - (.its representatives in
. France).
E. Ministry of Education - (its representatives in the
Paris Embassy).
F. Ministry of Health .(supports the Polish Red Cross
in France).
G. Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1. Polish Military Mission (1945)
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2. Polish Embassy - Paris
General Secretariat - (performs normal
Chancery functions--mail, visas, etc.)
b. Secret Section - (independent of Ambassador;
responsible for secret and confidential
papers.)
c. Personnel Section - (responsible for staff
of Embassy and consulates; temporarily
merged with Special Section.)
di Special Section - (office of delegate to
UNESCO; supervises staff of consulates
and:-all Polish organizations in France.)
e. Political Department - (Political Resident
was assigned to this Department, which
performs only ordinary diplomatic work.)
f. Administrative Section -- (not important;
under Junior Attache.)
g. Financial Section -(under Chief Accountant.)
h. Emigration Department- (was responsible for
diplomatic assistance to members of Polish
colony and for matters of repatriation;
now handled by Consulates and Polorbis
Travel Agency.)
i. Social Section - (dependency of .Emigration
Department; responsible for all Polish
organizations in France. Headed by in-
telligence officer who in Embassy is
subordinate to, Chief, Emigration Depart-
ment. In discharge of duty, comes under
local Party Chief, and as intelligence
officer, under 0.11 Resident.)
Military Attache's Office - (normal military
attache reporting.)
Press Office of Military Attache - (col-.
lects press reports as a basis of Mili-
tary Attache reports.)
k. Press and Cultural Section - (responsible
for propaganda and publicity organizations.)
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(1) Bureau d' Informations- Polonaises (E"1P )
(2) Polska Agencja Praaowa (PAP)
(3) Gazeta Polska and successors:; (official
Embassy nev:a organ.)
(a) Les Amis de la Gazeta Polska -
(suppressed in 1950.).
1. Education Section - (controls. Polish schools
and includes Schools Instructor who super-
vises schools vith assistance of six
inspectors, one attached to each consulate.
Expelled by French Government.)
(1) Schools and associated organizations:
(a) Polish Lie in-Paris
(b} Thursday Schools in Paris.
(c) Polish "Gymr iazium" in Paris
(d) University at Paris (located at
Polish House)
(e) University at Lille
(f} Embassy Farm at La Preale-en-Brie
(2) TUR - (Society of Workers' Universities).
OMTUR - (Youth organization of TUR)
m. Commercial Department - (was retponsibie for
commercial operations of Polish Government
and firms in France.)
(1) Official Polish Commercial Firms in France
(a) La Compagnie LOT - (Polish Airline)
(b) Bank "Polska Kasa Opieki" (PKO)
(c) Polskie Biuro Podrozy (Polorp is) -
(agent of OBBIS in Warsaw.)
Al) Transtours (formerly Polorbia,
Agence Maritime et Bureau,de ,.
Voyages, Transports et Touriame.
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(d) SEPIC - (agency for ELEKTRIM in
France.)
(e) POLIMEX
(f) VARMX
(g) SPOLEM
(h) Film Polska
(1) SIRIUS (represents Film Polska
in Prance
(i)l.VrLRAME Group - (dissolved and became..
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Y Freres. )
(a) VITRAME - - (deals with export of
purchased under Franco-Polish
(b) SOFRAMI -.(deals with goods Our
chased in clearance of Polish
.credits for coal deliveries.)
PROBUR-FRANCE - (agency for CIECH
Polish Center for Import and
Export of Chemical Products.)
2. LANDY FRERES (formerly VITRAME)
(a) La Societe FRAMEL - (associated,
with Landy Freres.).
(b) Societe pour Immobilies et Fonds
de Commerce (connected with
LANDY, J.M. of Landy Firm)
(c) PINALT - (agency of Landy Freres.)
(d:) STGCP~- (La Societe Transitoire
Polonais;. may be connected.` with
bandy organization.)
(j) BOT - (Bureau de Reception et'de Trans-
port des Surplus Americains.)
rl) BOTRANS - (replaced BOT)
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Commercial Treaty,)
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lication,--banned January 195+.)
.(a) Nowin Poiskie'-- (SEFRANPOL pub
(.b) Przeglad-Poiski we Francji - ( ,
SEFtANPOL publication; replaced.
Nowwi.ny Pooiskie. )
c~ ation;"Fanned 19 November 1952.
2.(e) Polski Swiat - (SEFRANPOL publi-
(b)
:TY odnik Polakow we Frano ii
2. j une -1953.)
Swiat -~v Illustrac iach (r*' rrtn.4e
"XUAURre; 5Er'RANFOL publication;-.
successor to 2a and 2b.)
(2) Other Polish Commercial Firms, Organizations.1
and Affiliates:.
(1)
(m)
coal industry..)
(p) CELYLOSE
(o). CENTROZBYT (connected with Polish
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Societe Europeene.pour le Commerce
et 1'1rndustrie
Societe Financiere de 1'Industrie
Forestiere
Comptoir Porestier
(n) CETYLOSE
(q) SEFRANPOL - (Polish Publishing House
in France.)
(a) ROLIMPEX {.Polish Bueineis Firm in
Poland.)
(b) Grau-Bor
.(c) NOFOR
(d) TEU?EX
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Societe Anonyme d'Exploration Agricole
"T ndome Export-Import
Compt.oir European d'Export-Import
(3)
(h) ZI1r 'A (or ZIP,'; entirely devoted to
serving Polish firms: printing, etc.)
(i) Banque Commercial de 1'Europe du Nord
(affiliate of PKO.)
(j) ZVIP - (Union of Polish Savings Banks
in France.)
Firms Servicing or Mentioned in Connectio-i
with:.Polish Firms or Organizations in France:
(a) Im rimieries Parisennes Reunies -
(prints papers for SEFRANPOL group
and the Z cie Polskie.)
(b) OFIMEXPORT - (commercial agency col-
laborating with the USSR and the
Satellites.)
O.F.I.C.E. - (unknown status, men-
tioned in connection with Communist
operations.)
(d) 'Publishers subsidized by PKO
Dunod
Masson, & Cie.
Centre de Diffusion et de la
Pre sse
Les Editeurs Francais Reunies
L'Humanite
Les Lettres Francaisea
Krier, Jacques
n. Consulates
k
(1) Paris
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(2) Lille
(3) Lyons
(4) Strasbourg
(5) Toulon
(6) Marseilles
(7~= Metz
o. Polish House (Dom Polski)
p. Polish Book ?(Ksiazka Polska)
q. Union of Embassy Employees
. Radio Stations
Radio Warsaw
2. Radio Kral
(a) Bulletin of Rs:dio Kral
J. Polish Red Cross, Polaki Czerwony Krzyz (PCK)
1. Dispensary - Paris
Dispensary - Lens
Rest Home - Biarritz
4. RKL - Council of Summer Camps
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LIST B - Polish Communist Front Groups and their Publications in
ranee
I. Organizations with their Publications
A. Part-I Communist Francais (PCF) (Polish section)
1. PORADNIK - (ostensibly publication of PCF, actually
organ of the PZPR.).
B. Confederation Generale du Travail (CGT) - Polish Section
1. Prawo Ludu.- (paper published by CGT.)
2. Centre des Journalistes Professionnels - (affiliated
with.CGT.)
C. Association of Protectors-of the Border on the Oder and
Neise
D. Amitie Franco-Polonaise
1. Les Amis de la Juenesse Polonaise - (suppressed in
1950.)
2. Amitte Franco-Polonaise des Jeunes
E. Progressive Catholic Movement
1. Pax Christi
F. Union of the Women of "Maria Konopnicka" (ZKMK) - (suppressed:
In 1950.)
1. 1'Union des Femmes Francaisea (Polish section)
G. Union of War Invalids (ZIW)
1. Polish Association of War Invalids
H. Association des Combattants Polonais
2. Aide Mutuelle Aux Militaires Polonais
J. Armee Ouvriere Polonaise (Polska Armia Robotnicza)
K. Unite Ouvrier (Workers' Unity; lending library.)
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L. Organization-of Polish Jews (ZZP)
1. Polish-Jews Communist Association at Toulouse
2. Jewish Communist Youth 2 Arrondissement
M. Comite d'Aide et de Defense des Immigres fCADI-)
1. Comite Francais de la Defense des Immigres (CFDI,
same as CADI.)
2. UNIS - (newspaper of CADI/CFDI)
N. Union of Polish Teachers in France (ZNP) - (suppressed
in 1950.)
0. Union of Polish Engineers and Technicians (ZIT)
P. Union of Polish Merchants and Artisans
Q. Federation of Polish Immigrants in France
1. Federation des Emigres Polonais (FEP - (suppressed
in 1950.)
R. Union of Settlers and Agriculture Workers (ZORR)
S. Union of Polish Youth "Grunwald" (ZMP) - (suppressed
in 1950.)
T. Union of Polish Scouts and Guides (ZHP) - (suppressed
in 1950.)
U. Union of Former Members of the Resistance (ZPBURO) -
(suppressed in 1950.)
V. Aid to the Homeland (OPO) - (suppressed in 1950.)
l.. The Independence (organ published by OPO.)
W. Polish Union of Former Members of the International
Brigade in Spain
X. Parti Socialiste Unitaire (PSU)
1. USP (no information available--,may be identical
to. PSU.)
Y. Congress of Foreign Resistants and Volunteers
Z. Engages Voluntaires et Combattants de la Resistance
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CO. RNPF (National Council of Poles in France) - (suppressed
in 1950 )
BB. ,Amicale .des Socialistea Polonais en France
AA. Union Generale des Engages Volontaires Etrangeres (UGEVE)
1. U.G.E.F.R.E, - (probably identical to UGEVE.)
DD. Union of Soviet Patriots In France
II. Communist Publications Not Identified with Specific Organizations'
A. Nasz Dziennik
B,. Dziennik Wychodzcy
Kurier Polaki
D.
Polish Voice in France
E Polska I Swiat
F. Z cie Polskie
Organizations of Doubtful or Unknown Status
Polish-Jewish Community
"Bartosz Glowacki" Brigade (around Cagnac-les-Mines)
E. CRE Rgal(?) des Scouts Polonais
C. Assemblee Nationale Polonaise -- (1945' information)
D. Committee for Assistance of Flood 7Tictims in Poland
F. "Masson Polonaise" for Polish-Jewish Progressives who
live in U.S.
Union of Members of the Pol. ish.Resistance Movement (ZUPRO)
IV.
A. Association pOur.l'Etude des Problemes Politiques, Economi-
Organizations.Mentioned in Connection with Communist A ents
Commission Administrative de la Federation Regionale du
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