SUMMARY OF PARTY LETTER NO. 4, COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001300240005-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 24, 2002
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: May 25, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
CONFIDENTIAL
COUNTRY India
SUBJECT Summary of Party Letter No. 4,
Communist Party of India.
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.B. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
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DATE DISTR.
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REQUIREMENT NO. RD
REFERENCES
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25 May 1953
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
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1. The following is a summary of Party Letter No. 4 dated 11 April 1953, and
published by the Cmumiunist Party of India (CPI).1 This Party Letter Was
painted by Jayant.Bh tt at the New Age Printing Press, 190-B, Khetwadi
Main Road, Bombay 4.2.-3
2. The first section deals with Party fund collections in Krishna District
(Andhra). The collection quota is Rs. 160, 400.
3. The next section is an extract from the resolution of the Extended Plenum
of the Uttar Pradesh Provincial Committee on Party Organization. It in-
cludes a list of administrative duties for the various provincial, district,
and local committees. This section also discusses the "scrutinization of
Party members.," Party education, sale of Party literature, Party dues, levy,
and collections. The following table shows a graduated levy according to
monthly income:
Mont
hl
y Income
S
ingle with
Fami
ly
Up t
o
Rs. 50/-
1 % Exe
mpted
Rs. 51/- to Rs- . 75/-
2 %
1 %
Rs.1 76/_ to Rs. l00/..
4 %
1 %
RE,. 101/- to Rs. 12.5/?
6 %
2%
Rs. , 126/- to Rs. l50/-
7
2,%
Rs. 151/- to Rs_. 200/-
10 %
3 %
Rs . 201/.- to Rd,, 25O/.
12
4 %
Abov
e
Re. 250/-
154
5%
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3e Commente The printing of. Party Letters has been shifted from
?yew Delhi, Bombay for security reasons. in New Delhi some copies
were g etting to Government officials. The New Age Printing Press was
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Comment This section is apparently based on the CPT Draft
esolu t. n oa,"Pax ty Organization,,
Comnenta. This Letter earlier stated. that the CPI polled the
s;es s, nge number of votes among the workers of the Delhi Cloth
:ills
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