CHANGE OF PARTY DOCUMENTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A006400070002-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 16, 2008
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: March 30, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2008/07/16: CIA-RDP80-0081 OA006400070002-5
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SUBJECT Change of Party Documents
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.
REPORT
DATE DISTR.
MAR 301955
NO. OF PAGES 2
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
1. In 1953, as a result of the changes which took place at the 19th Party Congress
in October 1952, an order came from the Central Committee, signed by one of the
secretaries, which decreed that Party documents would be changed beginning on
1 January 1954 and that the whole transaction should be completed by 1 January 1955.
There were three reasons for the changes the old candidate cards and members'
tiobets, both being booklets in which the pyaent of dues was noted, had printed
on the face the former name of the party "a11-Union Comm " ist Party (b)", and
since the mane had been changed to "Co'mtaist Party of the Soviet Union" it had
become necessary to change the doowA nts; the old documents had also stated on
the face that the Party wu a member of the Communist International and this was
no longer true since there was no longer an International; and,thirdly, the old
documents had become worn with time since inserts were issued when the pages were
filled, rather than a new booklet.
2. The inside cover of the Party ticket (fit) contained a number assigned to the
member when he joined, the member's name, his date of birth, the date he entered
the Party, the dat` the ticket was issued, the authority which issued the ticket
(generally tht rayon Party Committee), the signature of the issuer (usually the
raykom secretary), and a photograph of the member with a rubber stamp placed half
on the photo and half an the page, thus sealing the photo. When Party tickets were
lost, which occurred fairly often, an investigation was carried out and the loser
would then be repriaaad,ed and warned not to lose it again. The raykom wmrald then
send to the Section for Party Records ( Uchita) in the Central
Committee in liescow for a duplicate.
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