COOPERATION BETWEEN THE WFDY AND OTHER INTERNATIONAL FRONT ORGANIZATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00046R000500300004-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 1, 2002
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: September 22, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning 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.
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Cooperation Between the. WFDY and
Other International Front
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1. The only international front organization with which the World
Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY) cooperated closely was one of
its auxiliaries,, the International Union of Students (IUS ), in Prague. l
In summer 1953, the WFDY and the IUS. jointly financed the travel of
youth delegations from Western countries; the.WFDY paid for the
travel of the delegations to the Congress in Bucharest while the IUS
paid for the travel of the delegations from Bucharest to.the Commu-
nist-sponsored World Student Congress in Warsaw. ef1SIDY
-loaned some of'its translators to the IUS for the congress.
2. -All WFDY employees at the headquarters in Budapest knew that the IUS
was Communist-run because of the way in which staff members of both
organizations transferred from one organization to the other. For
example, Roberto Carillo, the former Spanish representative at WFDY
Headquarters, had worked for IUS before he went to Budapest. Caril-
lons predecessor in Budapest, Luis Azoarate, is presently with the
IUS in Prague.
Cooperation between the WFDY and other international front organiza-
tions was more routine. The World Peace Council regularly invited
the WFDY to send representatives to its meetings and the WFDY returfed
the invitation as frequently. The WFDY also cooperated with the
Youth Section of the World Federation of Trade Unions? the Women's
International Democratic Federation, and other similar front organiza-
tions. The presidents and general secretaries of all the various
front organizations faithfully attended each other's meetings, signed
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each other's petitions to protest against the-atom bomb and, in
general, wasted enormous amounts of time returning favors. For
example, in January 1955, -Jacques Denis (France), General Secretary
of the WFDY, and Bruno Bernini, WFDY President and an-Italian CP
member, attended the "Enlarged Meeting of the Bureau of the World
Peace Council" in Vienna where both signed the "Appeal to the
Peoples of the World". On their return to Budapest, they gave a
.report to a committee of the WFDY Secretariat about the work of
the World Peace Council and on the importance of that organization's
current campaign to "frustrate the plans of the'atomic warmongers".
After hearing such reports, the WFDY usually sent circulars to all
of its affiliates urging them to support such organizations in their
countries. Occasionally, this type of report became the subject of
an article published in the WFDY's publication, World Youth.
Source believes that even though all the individuals involved in
international front organization collaboration are convinced Commu-
nists, liaison between the organizations has some long-range use in
impressing gullible outsiders.
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25X1A 2. omment: Roberto Carillo, now said to be in Moscow, is a
younger brother of Luis Carillo who is said to be the secretary.
of the Central Committee of the Spanish Communist Party in Prague.
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