TRAINING FOR COMMUNIST ' SHOCK BRIGADE' LEADERS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002200370001-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 2, 1999
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: October 26, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

FORM NO. $1-4A
SEPT. 1948
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CENTRAL INT IGENCE AGENCY
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6 Jan 1949
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Training. for Communist
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1. "CoTnmissairesl" for the reactivated Communist. T shock brigades`, who have been
recruited by the Belgian Communist ?arty,,-ea_ong youth group members, are being
riven fifteen-day political courses. The first course in the series began on
26 October and was taught by Rer rillis, Secretary-General of the "'Jeunessc
Populaire de Belgique" and member'' of the BOP Central Committee.
2. Under the title, tty,rrxism and The Revolution", thrtse lectu#es teach that every
-party leadermus-t know all the enemies of Communism in his area and organize
his own groups which, in an emergency, could promptly obilize these opponents.
`.rhsParty's. attempt to achieve this goal was trit-A against the Rexists before
',[arid War II and proved unsuccessful.
3. Other lecturers of the courses include Jules Vanderlinden, Bertha Pieterbour,7,
"entral Committee member and wife of Communist Deputy Jean Borremans (see our
-), and Bob Claessens, Central Committee member. GTrmnastic tra.ininv is
under t ie direction of Gaston Matton. First aid training; is sunervised by
IFarie Bocca ;rlich.
About thirty future "commissaires" had volunteered to take these courses. They
stsyed at various training camps, paying their own expenses which ran to sixty-
seven francs daily per studont, and received throughout each day alternate one-
hour lectures and an hour of gymnastics.
5. The course was interrupted by All Saints holiday, and all of the volunteers T-mere
allowed to go to their homes. Uihen they returned to the camps on 3 November to
resume their studies, they -.gain were sent home, and, for an unexplained reason,
the course was suspended.
6. ,Then students reported to the Rixensart Youth Camp on the first day of the
course, they found a group of Jews there, all of whom suddenly departed for
Godinne-sur-.16nsc wl another Communist youth hostel is located. This latter
camp is directed by Georges Walgraeve.
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7. Among the volunteers at the Kxense.rt came were:
corr;c;s V.antilhor,~ ;
dri'en 1'endrickx;
Victor La.mborelle;
Felix Coenen;
Rik Iieynders;
'corf~es Canivet;
Levy ( nu) ;
Emile ar,.des;
ackens (fnu);
zudel, (fnu); and
J telet (fnu).
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