PCI ELECTION CIRCULARS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001400550007-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 15, 2001
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: June 3, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2001/11/21 : CIA-RDP80-0081OA001400550007-9
CENTRAL .INTELLL.GE.NCE AGENCY
INFQRMATION REPORT
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.S. 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.
SECRET/CONTROL - U.S. OFFICIALS ONLY
SECURITY INFORMATION
COUNTRY
SUBJECT
Italy
PCI Election Circulars
REPORT NO.
DATE DISTR.
3 June 1953
NO. OF PAGES
1
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DATE OF INFO.
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REQUIREMENT NO.
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REFERENCES
PLACE ACQUIRED
1. The Central Committee of the Partito Comunista Italiano (PCI; Italian
Communist Party) recently sent a circular to the Provincial PCI Federa-
tions entitled "Our Election Campaign against Swindling, Corruption, and
Blackmail".
29 It revealed that in the past elections, the adversaries of the PCI, parti-
cularly the Christian Democrats, were able to obtain votes from the more
backward part of the electoral body by means of intimidation, blackmail,
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corruption and trickery. The circular goes on to say that
would be very useful in this election. To avoid this', it is necessary
for the "democratic" parties to arouse the indignation of the masses and
to mobilize them agaiaat these whb apply these methods.
In order to fight and denounce them,)it is necessary to study the various
methods used by the adversaries, among which the principal ones are:
blackmailing at one's place of work, religious intimidation, and corrup-
tion with packages of pasta and 1,000 lire notes. The fundamental basis
of Communist electoral propaganda must be the denunciation of these methods;
maintaining that "economic and religious intimidation, corruption and trickery"
are all crimes reportable to the judicial authorities.
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