INTENSIFIED KPOE TRAINING PROGRAM

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A005700060004-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
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1. All Lower Austrian district secre cries of the K W)e will take part in an instruction
course and aem3.nur,. to be 41d between 13 and 21 December 1954 at Vienna X. Wieland-25X1
gasse 1. The instruction course will last ford three days an rill embrace the
follcrding subjects: Public Political Activity of the Party; Expansion and Strength-
ening of the Party; Work in the Factories; The Role of the Factory Organizations;
The Role of the lembership Meeting; The Work of the Directorates (Leiturigen). This
will be followed by a five-day seminar in which the following subjects will be dis-
cussed: Probleari in Political Econory; Problems of the Lconomic and Political
Developrnt of Austria; The China P,blem; The Work of a District Secretary; The
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2. A niurbd b i'I "dOurses' .h_ . -scheduled by the KPOe for 1955. A six-
month advanced course for middle-echelon functionaries will begin on 9 January 1955
at the -V I''t y 9chlobl d*lfied r arge 1111 be one i dbe(th4 .'
and Genf 4IWW9, bot&f 1 '*a fir 'specialists in co rivnist t wory nd prWot:. a0
Two Vt ve- ek ooures acre td be held Yawn early Janu -~ to late March at the
provincial Party School in :1auerbach.e Zen two-weak courses, extending through
July 1955, will be peesented under the direction of one Sperrling (fnu) at the
Party's ?."Ioedling School)
3. In accAJ!~elhs 41t1f'?W r tee 1itiorx: a by tkw tCtntrsl Coweitte of
plenary meeting of 11:-15 .November 1951&, Lower Austrian district organizations
hays been instructed to undertake an all-out propaganda attack on the Austrian
People's Party (OeVP) the party of reaction and the instrument of a new
Aria chltpa Nr anyq' - Tn 1k eet$ng of Lover Austrian functionaries on
20 November, Provincial Chairman Fran Honner stated that the KPOe has hereto-
fore been overly pre-occupied with its campaign against the Socialist Party.
Comment. During October, an unusual increase of activity fithin the
i e was event. The current emphasis on schooling and membership meetings,
as well as a general tightening up of the Party, appears to have more behind
i., i.iian t inu.ic r gero l.!ices Dale iuad in bur pa.a r.. it long-airaitea r.?eacij ustment of
personnel in the middle echelons is expec',ed shortly. One Lower Austrian
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Besirkaleitung has been placed under pressure by the Landesleit.ung to select
functionaries for advanced training, to consolidate some of its lower organi-
sations for greater administrative efficiency, and to organize a series of
public meetings and demonstrations to bring the Party "into the street" and
closer to the people.
Comment. This resolution was c..c ;y. L;:
another approach to the KPOe objective, announces over a year ago, of making
common cause with the Socialists.
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