NEW POLITICAL EDUCATION PROGRAM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-01036R000100060021-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 3, 2003
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: December 4, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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New Political Edouooaation Program
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Czechoslovakia
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HIS DOCUMENT CO--INI INFORMATION AFFIL IN THS NATIONAL DIFENSI
F THE UNITED STATII, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE ISM SECTIONS 718
ND 714, OF TNI U.S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR RIPE.
ATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO ON RICIIFT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED REASON II
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
1. Important cons^ ltati?orns about p ;l .ti sal edzacatlon in the-army are now taking
plaaoe in Prag>a.e -sunder the direction of General Jig, Zeman, head v< f political
administration In, the army.
22. According tt r ecommer da,a .:e)ns recently received in Praagaae from Soviet military
authorities, polYi?:i, ral education in the army will be ?anit'.ed and pla,~ed
completely under the direca;tion of the Coammxnist Party. The Coa an',ist Party
will form a milita department, w1U h will be attarohed "a the H10, Political
SchQol of the Party, and thlroag whioh all officers over the rank of captain
will pass..
The military department, composed of civilian delegates of the Party, will be
Attached to the Vyaokaa trani,,ke Skola, at Prague as of 1 November 1953, under
the leadership of Rudolf , The professors placed to charge of
olitically ed . 'aating officers will, be chosen from the secretariat of the
party and not, as in the past, from among officers considered politically
reliable,
4. The Central Committee of the party- has placed Prantiaek 'N'ecasek i,n charge of
i.nspeoti'ng the work of the High Political SohoQl. Necasek was plead of
t .wa1d e politiv3al office, and spent mauoh time in the USSR. Hi wife is a
Rus sie s, _and aac one of the leading agents of the MVO' was in charge of tfe
Ministry of National Security until September 1953.
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5. This reorganization will tighten the grip of the P arty on the army,
Gene2^al staff people fear that this will result in promotions for Party
activity alone, and it will lower the quality of command, especially in the
higher formations.
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e ova au orities have imposed similar measures in Poland, It Is
expeoted that General Karol Vita ez ki, head of the political administration
o'c c a. % Army will come to Prague to study the new school.
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