PPR POLICY TOWARD CATHOLIC CHURCH

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000500830064-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 28, 2003
• Sequence Number: 64
• Publication Date: July 31, 1947
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. "This directive comes into' force the day of its publication.
t. The fight against the Church must be conducted according to a plc m and e
ayatoms we are in na hurry~to conclude a concordat with the Vatican. A y
kind of a modus tJviv ,'better than a formal agreement as long as that
PPR does noio o strong enough to disregard. the Vatican, to break relations
with the hierarchy,,. and to deolaro ?a, war. against the clergy Which will be
both ruthless and deoisivoa ,'Praioticing Catholioc must not be allowed in koey
positions of the PPR and the bl:ook
are to be favored o?'footivoly . partTcs, On the, other hand, aon..bol9.avora
So. "Men nominating people for. positions--+whothsr in .the goverznomt, ceorot
police, militia, ar* schools, or administration-.?praotioing Catholics
should be eliminated. Those who are. actively working in the PPR and block
parry comrades in responsible positions of government who will iaot? b?
prepared to looaon and then'broakr;contact with Catholicism,. should be paaeod
over for advancement and in tiias should be relieved? . It is obvious that
other 'reasons for this must be given. In all unott.oial activities,
aapooially with youth, Catholioism should be derided. Its hiorrsoby,: all
?Church orgaaizatione, and everything which. has anything to do with Cathol-
d,:oiem should be mocked."
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