PRE-WAR BRANCHES OF THE KPP

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 11, 2012
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: May 4, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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7_e. Befo_re -the .way, the Communist .Party of Polaxid (KPpj had a rir.~;iber of
special branches for purposes of organizing ~n -
lutionary and conspiratorial activit;~~ ~ ~ s revom
such branches: Military, Agricultural, n e zgen>sia, Trade J:~ ~~ 50X1-HUM
ar~d Jev~~i.sh Affairs ~ Their respor_sibilhies here as follows
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Tae principal funs~ion of this :oranch was the penetratio?~ of tt-fe
armed ,forces of Poland for intclxigence r~urposcs ~- -Cts activity
and ~riembership was a closely ~uarcted secrvt9 the me~.bership con-
sisted of the elite of the Comm~_zTlist Partya :p'he or~ani~at_on alsn
vas ver,-y com~acta. It was co:npri.sed of the Cerltra,~. .z ~at~c'-i (~,~ert~alny
~'~ydz~alj end tlie;, Pe~~:c~~a.~. Bz~anch' (~Yycizs.a~_~~k~~govr~'~j~ .'~h~ :pr~~:ez~t
head b~;~ the Co'unc~.~.. of ' State"' ~l?~.da Fa'ns~z~,.j ~f Polend~ Aletcs~.~der .
~AWA~~~ -:5 c~ii_ef of the pre tirar T+rFilitary .Branca of the ~KPPR
Agricultural Branch- (~dl~ydzial Polnjr`j -
Corilmurist agitation among the ~aeasants under .the guise of soc,~.a1-
democratic interest zx~as the chief conce? i?~ of this bra~ich~ The
ko~m~r mar shal of the Polish S?Jms ~Ot~tAi,Sh~, -aras the Caief of the
ariculturaY Branca before the war
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c. intelligentsia Branch
Jakob B~RMA,N, now Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers, headed
the intelligentsia Branch. it concentrated~on members of the learned
professions~~~- professors, lawyers, students, writers, artists, etc.,,
with a view to winning them over to the Communist cause.
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e? Jewish Branch
This branch was at the height of its activity during the 1933?-31a period
when anti-Semitism wae~openly manifested in Poland. ~rhe branch was
then expanded into a bureau. At this time~the Comrunist Warty cancen~
trated on the Jc~vlish ghettos in Poland9 especially in the Lvov area,
where it was hi hly successful in recruiting new adherents. The Comnui~i.st--
sponsored AJAP ~Allgemeine Yiddische Arbeits Partei) was organized as
a result of .these new recruitments.
2. One of the less known but highly influential Communist-sponsored groups in
Poland before the war was the "I~diedzynarodovra Organizac ja Pomocy Rewoluc~onistow"
(~OPR), Its sole function was to raise funds for the communist Party ~i'ovement
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ization in every im an coon there now is 'a co t of this organ-
ry abroad, the group operated
very effectively and was never liquidated. s ra s are made up mostly of
Communist fellow travelers who consider th
emselves liberal-minded intellectuals,
pacifists and persons with peripheral Communist sympathies.
Party values the organization highly and attem is to kee itsThe Communist 50X1-H U M
record-~anbiema.shed so that it can continue to function overtly in~its behalf.
The MtJFR was still active during the war when workers in various trade unions
were often unwittingly assessed on a monthly basis to~finance the activities
of the Communist Party in other areas.
work which was conducted on a count The RPP directed and inspired its
r9wide basis.
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