DIRECTIVES OF THE POLITBURO OF KKE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000100230005-4
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 1, 1998
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: September 24, 1946
• Content Type: IR

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It is reported that the following directives were issued by the Politburo of
o u 23 and 24 September 1946.
This. .s developing on the lines predicted. There was now a aataate of civil
war which grow in intensity every day. Government 'Lorrorisr had expanded
throughout the country. Arrests., deportations and executions were common
daily occurrences. It was, therefore. natural that the people should have
reacted so strongly. The new military operations would make the situation
? gorse, Misery and want were beginning to creep into the areas where these
military operations were taking place. Work had p- aactical:ly ceased and the
areas in question were out off from the rest of the country. Refugees were
bs ;irning' to overcrowd the towns in Macedonia and Thessaaly. Campaigns
(strikes) to relieve the people from their present distress were therefore
necessary.. The monarcho-fascist Governne:it would probably oppose these cam-
paigns. But as tha people would be fighting for their daily broad and
their independence, the Government's efforts would be of no avail
2. As the Party did not wish this chaotic situation to continue, it was pre-
pared to come to terms with its opponents provided "future collaboration
was undeecaken on equal terms with equal rights and privileges". The Party
would then do all in its power to help reestablish law and ? order.
"Equal tome with equal rights and privileges" means
of the following conditions:
Ge zaral amnesty,, disbandment of all Para-
military organizations, an all-Party Gov
ernia-eutD now elections and another plebis-
cit?ed
acceptance
If those conditions were accepted, the Party might well call
o2 the ,darte campaign..
If this last appeal ron a fined unanswered, it would then be a fight to death.
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intensified, Tho present military operations would fail for the name
reasons as before.
$n XOA in the meanitime, would not ease to be on the alert. lho City Com-
mittee would see that "Achtides" were properly organized to resist any
kind of attack whether it came from tlovea'nmaant forces or from peraa-
militar
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y orgazi
z ations. The Politburo insisted once agaf ua that all MOM.
bers should be armed and that automatic weapons,, grenades and mines
should be bought for the I)eoharchies of the OA's,.,,
The Xin'e arrivals
The Politburo had information to the effect that an atte t on the Ping'a
life might be staged by the monarchists on the dray of his arrival to
enable the Government to outlaw the Party, The Party was therefore cover,
ing itself by passing the information error to the Police? :;A M~ lr members
mould, in the mowatime, take all necessary security measures to avoid pre-
cautionary arrests. They wore also ihstruotod not to attend any of the
manifestations connected with the King?s return.
6 a EAM Congresa s
The Central Committee of LAM would continue its efforts to obtain official
sanction so that the EAD1 Congress could meet, if possible$ legally. Rep-
resentatives from provincial EAI1 orgenisatiosir were& in the uocnwhi.lo0 in-
structed to postpone their departure for Athens until fresh instructions
were issued,
S. The 11ft tearing passe:
Circulation was docreasing rapidly and "Boos l)romos?4 - the official An
weekly - had been obliged to cease publication. This was due to State ter-
rorism, The situation should be remedied. KOA was instructed to see that
each ones of its z embers bought "Risospastis". which was only selling about
17,000 to 18,000 copies daily, yet ICOA had more than 20x000 members and at
least double that number of follorao,. s and sympaathirera,
7. The cost of luring:
This was rising. UNRRA goods were being sold aaa twice the price the Govern-
nt had fixed soz s time ago. Fogdeturf's and articles of prime necessity
were becoming extremely expensive. The people's organisea`'t:ions were to react
strongly against the State and other black marketeers. Protests should be
present ed to .she Ministry of Supply and to UNREA,. The dismissed Central Coxm-~
mittee of the Greeak ledoratioa of Labor and dismissed hom