POPULAR DISCONTENT IN GDYNIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004600480010-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 28, 2008
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: September 28, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2008/10/28: CIA-RDP80-0081 OA004600480010-1
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Poland
This material contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States within the mean-
ing of the Espionage Laws, Title 18, U.S.C. Secs. 793
and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in
any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law.
Popular Discontent in Gdynia
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
1. In connection with an "Education Day" celebrated throughout Poland, a so-
called "Meeting between Reader and Librarian" was held in the Grabowek suburb
of Gdynia. The purpose of this meeting was to encourage the people to make more
use of the public libraries.
2. The meeting was well attended, mainly by workers sent there by the Basic Party
Organizations in the various factories and places of work in Gdynia. Nevertheless,
the proceedings lasted a very short time, as the atmosphere of the meeting deterior-
ated to such an extent that the organizers were obliged to terminate it hastily,
for fear of being beaten up.
At the conclusion of the opening report by the Director of the Propaganda Section
in the Municipal Committee of the PZPR (Polish United Workers, Party, individuals
in the audience began to shout: "We don't want to hear about what you've done for
us in the past. We want to know what you are going to do for us, as the ceilings
in our lodgings are falling down and the rain is coming in dough the roofs. It
is easy for directors to talk propaganda when their houses are warm and their bellies
are full. We want food and good houses, and not books."
STATE X ARMY X' NAVY X AIR X FBI AEC
(NOTE: Washington distribution indicated by "X"; Field distribution by "#".)
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DATE DISTR. 28 September 1954
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