CHURCH ATTENDANCE AND PUBLIC ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE CLERGY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004200960003-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 5, 2010
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: July 21, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION 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
COUNTRY Poland
REPORT
SUBJECT Church Attendance and Public Attitudes DATE DISTR.
Towards the Clergy
21 July 1954
NO. OF PAGES
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE;
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
Churches continue to be full during the Aunday services. A noteworthy fact has
been the increase in the number of young people among the churchgoers, and also
the presence of members of the army, which hitherto was quite exceptional.
2. Members of the clergy who do not openly show their hostility towards the regime
are left unmolested by the authorities. The most requent form of punishment
applied by the regime towards. recalcitrant priests is to transfer them to rural
parishes. "Patriotic priests"l are, on the other hand, universally detested by
the public.
Comment.
1. Those priests who actively cooperate with the Communist regime.
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