STRUCTURE OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF SPAIN IN FRANCE

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• Publication Date: October 9, 1950
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SUBJECT Struct-jre of the Corniiunict Party of Spain
in France
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The organizational structure of the Co' nist Party of Spain (CPS),,
while fundamentally similar to standard Party organization in other
countries, is necessarily modified in that (1) in Spain, whatever
illegal activity it may carry on is a specific target for the
`Iegime's security police, and the Party rmzst function throuj h small,
isolated "guerrilla" bands and clandestine propaganda; and (2) in
France, as a party in exile., its strength is concentrated in
Spanish refugee centers, subject to control. by French authorities
A further organizational problem in the case of the CPS lies in
the existence of three traditional reegional subdivisions:
(1) Cataluna; (2) the Ddsque countrie ; and (3) (3alicia.
?,x On the national level, the CPS in France is directed by a "Super
Political. Bureau", the Political Bureau and the Central Comnd.ttee,
with headquarters in Paris The "Super Political Bureau",
established in early 1.946 by action of the last Party congress,
ias created to handle general Party problems concerning Spain and
its regions. In "ay, 1950 it was composed of the f?ol.l.oi ing
individuals
..r. L L rrandonea Eascluo CP)
Elisa. UTTIZ (I.izjeres Espanolas)
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I most of the member: of the, Central Cor'nittee
il.l various duties outside of Paris, acting, for exarrple,' as
regional leaders in charge of organization., pr opa^anda,, youth,
labor or liaison with Spain and Andorra,,
On a regional level.,, the CPS in D ance is divided into six areas,,
each having its own "general staff" did not identify a.. 25X1
of those regions, but said that the Sou ~:res area along the Pyrenze2s
frontier far outr7eighocl any other area in i por tanco,, inasi .ich as
;l) it is closest to Spaln, and contains the greatest concentration,
of Spanish refugee elements; and (2) its mountainous terrain and
comparative solation grant greater leeway for Party activitio a
For this reason, the Pyrenees area .pro' '.des the best ei arq le of
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1 The South s t region of the C}'5 cor esnonds roughly to the French
r, i..fth T?il itaary region, ii e. including all departments south of a
line drawn through the cities of fordcaux, Fontauban and Deziers.
Its center is Tcaulouse,, capital of the Department of Haute Garonne
The Party regional co,, ~i_ttee for thi. s area, in a , 1950, was
reportedly- composed of the following individuals t
Antonio TTIJF, Political Secretory
Angel. P-TV"' 1Z Pena., Assistant Political Secretary
Tligu.el SO'.YIAITo1, Secret:a;cy of Organization
T gaol angel iJJLHZ Cruz, T'ilitary Secretary
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Under the direction of the regional com:-rittoe are ` the various
departmental. committees, the most important of which, in the case
of this region, is the comr ttte e for Haute Garonne-.
,Julio LUCAS,, Secretary General
Avelino I;TvT0 1 oruo, T reasur?er
Juan CfiS ?0,, Propaganda Secretary
Jaime TM TO, Ass #.ant Propaganda Secretary
Ricardo CAUTOTT, Assistant Propaganda. Secretary
Eugenio MI IX, Secretary for Catalan (PSUC) M fairs
Eduardo :~ `_" iUrSDO ,Iuiz, Secretary for Basque Affairs
TIry" r_uar tors of the Departmental Com,.Tii ttee: for saute Garonne are
in A ou ousev at 36,, flee Jean Jaures, also used by the Cor unict
P ; +:,y of France ., Under the Departmental Ccr=. -i.ttee the Party is
divided into urban and rural sect;.ions, the urban section of Toulouse
being the most developed,.
In Toulouse, the CPS is divided _ixito four "radios". each pith its
own responsible officers, as follows (for. a-ors 1950):
Political Secretary
Pro ~rici? Secreta
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Jtranici%ieo COT T -111E;
Domingo ~0"
A- k:,s
Juan X )T VINO
Jose CA 'AVACA
Press Secretary,.
1 401?th Pobe rto C 1SAa
South Leon CALL 3S
East, Ismael SIS? VIA
1 T Ct Pedro FI 1n- 'T AS
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.. "radio" It is es tiixated that there were ; o me thirty ,el,?.,-, of
CPS in Toulouse in ' Tay, 1950, including the following:
Barcelona
Dpi? x
Cortad1 t
Casado ra].
Cusco
Carrillo
Dolores Ibar Sri
}.' us imM- ya
Garrido
Joze
? l .tas
Odena
Puig.
',;tan". s 1_ao bies
Serrate
Serveto
Vitinrj?.
TTurker of L,Iembers
17
18
30
1.e
22
27
25
17
22
211
21,
17
1]..
1J
26
30
?or..sibl.e Of . seer
Salvador DAaG !1,LI,O
.ii TTAV11.1LO
Jose C! : `J'"!CA
Jose -rl,-,
Jose
nrique P :.'GC
Pedro s G u.' 1
Vicente ? :]')I?;P
_`.;ugen_io O.:i
Francisco .O' =XI;
i)ertomeu CULT'.
jA,fe1 _ TO ~'Z D A
Jose ALONSO
.AAngel COCA
Ernesto CAD'S z S
Leon C~juLtJZS
Juan PO.l
aeh urban e ems.., named after a Spars:- sh c -ty or a Party leader, has
its own small corn: i ttee,5 consisting of secretaries of political
matters, propaganda and press
cc%ViDENI'!`L
Luis :O_UTLLO
Jose TO.-U112S
Augn.sto UTTUA
An-Lon 1l+LUC0
"radios" are ; rouged the cells, frith from s to ten cells
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 Leor J u a n "()D---';' T O Gui3.l.o to, General of the :'od xr yy
Pnr -- que L,1. TE1; Forjan, General of the, :test ft 'n
I ;rracio HIDALGO do Cisneros (General)
TAI Da.`Z Juan
Thabovvc, acting in the name of the CPS,, had under them the meribor
of the i fi_l.ita.r T I'stado T "ay or;, or (3enera? S aff of the Party, which
was composed of the folio-u ing; individuals :
Commander in Chief: Antonio C0' DOi Garesa
Chief of Staff : Juan I3LAZC JLZ Arroyo
Chief of Crperations: Jose GLICIA Acevedo
Technical Advisor : Fernando CLAU'D1TT Jareno
The CPS reportedly has, in addition to the above staff, a "'Ili-Wry
Investigation Ser vice1?, headed by MEN." and r,1 ZC?? M: :; ('-T %r3 1950),
using also the services of Jose Luis 1?OEI:rTi S Barrios
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In rural areas of the Department of I Taute Garonne the cells are
directly under the Depart enta1 Committee, and are generally named
for the localities in -which they were established.
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that anong these cells were:
T7umier of
lernbers
;l.espons_i.Lle Officer
Carbonne
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Jose
Fonsorbes
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Pedro too
Fronton
7
Jose CA20! -.AS
Juzet d~Izaut
63
'`?oberto DIAZ
Lardenne
22
Francisco :'OSATLE,S
Luehon
25
i'ranci sco G='21Lt.
T. caret
22
Sebastian ' ITJ_1I 1
rort.et
23
P].acido T LL L .1
Ttev el
21
i rancisco LLA7Y)
S l es du Salat 1.7
S auveterr.'ee t
Javiar 202,0
Saint-Gaudens 35
Jose V'I.D2-L:.;
.aai::t'-Lys 9
Tournefeulile 17
Jose FIGU'2 :11S
in s c?:ie areas (particularly the eastern and western
regions) -rri h minor Commmi._ c representation, one co rij.ttee on the
departmental level might actually handle Spanish Coo . nunist matters
for several French departments in all, there
are 55 departmental cart ri_'ctees o l `ne bpan s orTh1unzs Party in
Prance, and three in forth Africa-'.',-*.
the existence of a CPS iri.litary, oorganization in
France. a , o itical Bureau has teen described above as being
composed of the meriibers of the "Super Political T zreau" and Fernando
CLPiTJDI I? Jareno uilloto, JtanIDDSSTO G , and Luis F' lUTAfDFZ Juan who
are leading military figures within the Party.
the 7 alitary Section of the CPS within the Pol.i ica. i3ureau an
Ceuriral_ Commit tee was as follaas in ' y, 1950:
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7 ; Under the i s t ad o 'r or 3 TT.L th headquar te? in Paris, is a ? ep,J o a
staff Lased in Toulouse, Ilan e Garonne., covrcx _i.r the area included
in the 1"reno"h 'tf t'13 v3Z`y' : eg.Lon (sec., above The Coirr7~.ndin n
Officer for the Tjroncos area in ".Tay., 1?550.
iF el ! .n.f!el Crus, residing at 13., .e au aurg _ or r C1o/,
~u1c+Li?.a,. ..,,"Z' aide was afael :',idoaeh, residing at
iate , t)~.c'~..il 1 CSulou s o n
~., The li tarr' s a_-Ci in Toulo;xse. in turn in charge of three
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':aSferezits 'c"klione" TL t'Cu.r2 the Pyrenees region
The ` e -,`(. .Fy:reiieez Section, including the cities of
i3 wd :a Pont cle T ,,:u an Bayonne and Oloron (departments
o 7.sndeu. Gironde, :lasses Pyrenees);
(2) Central Pyrenees including `_T o t3_ouse ':.;.o?rta azba ri, Pa it ers ,
an Audi (den r:,raer is of I Iaute Garonne, i am-. e -Ga ro ne ridge
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and par- of Gers);
(3) East Pyrenees, including Peziers, Harbors e, Sete, Perpignar_
and Prades.
a forth `,ec tion, consisting of Lot. e t-Ca-.ronne.,,
Haut,es P r?eneees, and the remainder of Gers, 1--in been. omitted,
perha, _ because of especially poor communications in that au'ea,
but the existence of tIagg"'tat _on'l corm iittees
,~,ers cad. e x~a.ronrro and Tarbes (iiautec Pyrenees),
3i~ain hea ? Y ?3 riy broad divi. Jionu 3 he existence
silk ',mu i.c:s. on a cleparta?;c?nta level, although no further
-ta,7_1" 7,crc -. ,vPn :;... to their corrrposition
P,"lae =r c' 3ence of p o itic.al and "agita.tion'f eorrLittees as well as
iihe f t)_i_lowir?t?' list of t r rras in th E}yr'eneec .11m. , _,n ica. inn
ital. T Co-
r Utees
Toulouse
r ontaurla.n.
Pa '.Oro
t iUCh
Lord. a(tx
Pont de ?arson
Bayonne
Oloron
`ez eras
Bar'benne
::to
Politic.' Conn ittoes
Toulouse
i'amiers
1Poi c
AAuch
Bordeaux
.font de ' arsar?.
Bayonne
I. ez i ors
Narbonne
Penns:Lgnan
Sete
Dontwuban
a'abi
( arm'aux.
Jecazaville
Dc7ier'S
Carcassonne
1c .int-"Ga udens
Tarbes
Pau
flax.
sea d .pax t, aaen t,aa_ corra:ittees, :i n turn, direct the cells,,
hile the cell itself is not a conb4 t team, it is the basic source
for the fo ma Uion of "shock troops"..' guerrilla forces:, Htroikas":,
and so forth,, Each Party militant, although he r. ay not be aaare of
it, Inas been ass' c''ned a 1Td i ita1, position in keeping with his
capabi .'ties,. and mill be called upon vvahen. the necessity for
action arises
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.3. ".hen and if such an event occars, in the case of a enerai strike,,
international war, or any other emergency calling for concerted
Communist military action, the CPS reportedly plans to establish
two directing bodies: first, the emergency military corm :.ssion
(Tfd-isponibleti), and later the provisional military commission.
'ur2Fr'3pE3,nay C.'Cr11TL2Ssy on
(1) The
The basic combat unit for initial Comm-mist mobilization is
the "troika", composed of three men (as in the Spanish Civil
..ar) . 113.1itants for the troikas arc recruited fro>:i the
cells,. Three troikas form a platoon (poloton) ,, headed b-,-
a pl.atoca chief. Three platoons form a section. According
to the size and importance of the local cell, the responsible
officer -:i.thin the cell may be called a "Section Chief".
Above, tw ,y rank of Section Chief, hovever, officers are named
by the ustado TLror of the CPS, with the approval of the
Conte'- Committee.
Thu; main du+,, r of those forces is to gain control of the
'r''yrenoes area, if only temporarily, closing the frontier
to out off the escape of the Party r s m-nornies into Spy in.,
and destroying the ene::r's transportation and communication
facilities. During this initial period, vjhile the main
Communist forces are being mobilized, the direction of the
"shock troops" described above is in the lards of the
T rrergency Co .scion; within a short time, possibly a few
days according to CPS calculations, its duties are to be
taken over ir? the Provisionary Commission.,
(2) The Provia ion ] Commiss:Lon (Set up b;- the Estado `''gror?)
The basic combat unit under this plan is the "nano'"', of five
men, -led by a "matzo" chief. These units are recruited on a
departmental basis.. Three gro fps of five form a platoon,
with a. rlatoon chief a Ten platoon, or a total. of 15.0 men,
form a company, which must be headed by a Party military
leader of long standing, TJho has gained his experience in the
Spanish Civil C7ax, they Irenoh sistanco, or through training
in Army cadre schools,.
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In addition to these formations., in which all Communists are
supposed to take part ., are special "shock teams", for:: d of
the most trustworthy elements, for Cmrying Out Spaial 7.u Lssiona
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A special unit of this type may consist of ton to fifteen rem.,
according to the hiss ion assigned., and is to be ' ec b v
experienced officers It might be termocl,
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a
comrn:ndo
sorce.)
Above the company level, CPS forces are to
other Communist forces in F'rance,, under th
General Communist T`il.i.tarry Staff for Franc
Estado ?Mayor of the CPS forms only a secti
become merged with
e direction of the
e, of which the
on.,
liaison with iron-Spanish Communist elements,
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an important part of Communist military projects or France..
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noted that the CPS is none too confident of its m litants , military
prowess,, particularly in the case of those recruited since the Civil..
1,7ar and the Occupation of Pr?a.nce, and relies more on tried
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fighters and members of the Franc Tireurs of I'axtisoais Francais,
a ro-Corm i = s fouled in the clays of the Trench Iiosistance.
I collaboration between Spanish and French
r ;r nv U ai.emen s can be seen in the CPS It use of FTPF headquarters
i rt various tozvms throughout the Pyrenees area for its on department!
coTind tee headquarters Further evidence of such liaison nay be
seen in the reported establishment of ",,,. .xdu (civilian and rul:Lt7 i ;
,affs a n the various toy= 1i.s ~t above as having CPS military
'r~IlMitteesc the "raxed" staff for Panders (Aric-cc)
-i 1950 consisted
o
PC; .tir;2: chief:
a.r s
'.!' chief:
Gem .-Ti 1.a chief
Emile DIAU
(friu.) at'--r-1-
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(f n ) iii .L? 7GOS
ehe;rto " D0? iSO ("Comancdante _:obert" )
lax _.oy , ',, ah .t of Ton lo? ze was comprised of:
Political chief Leger '"WIN (Departmental secretary, CPF)
"Agi- tation" chief: Georges POUQU1111,
FTP]' chief: Coronel .' VAT EL
Guerrilla ch:9.of: T f.guei Angel A Z Cruz
Ak number of rumors concerning the establishment of Conmiunist cadre
hool;; in the environs of Toulouse have been reported from ti s to
v.une as:,.d a great deal of speculation among Spanish elements was
aroused by the visit of Colonel CL,UDIN, who had formerly organized
such schools, to Toulouse in Decenrber 1.9.9. Cadre schools had
reportedly sprung up in the Pyrenees area (Bayonne, iPauOloron,
r e ja Perpignan, Taix Carcassonne, Toulouse) after she I berati_on
scli;;ol_ in Toulouse, hodwever, ceased functioning in February, 191
ter ii',e transfer, of the CPS Political Bureau and Central Corwri.ttee
'M ; a >L ~e F'a and other
. o %' inc .L? :'o '. met a i1 r 3 i-. I' arse v d ormumi_ct military group
a, IDD ,; did remain in Haute Garonne until_ l')40,
IIr and had its headquarters at h, rue Delfor t, Toulouse, but no
?hool:^ were in operation,
receipt of information to the effect that, as a
' au_ t or a se. ret meeting- of Communists in Decembers l91b9 in Paris
;. ncluein fanas'o 'TA2T , V:icont:c J ZIPS, Antonio T1IJE, Santiago CAMILIC's,
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g of SO L"JI l and lingel ". C ? 9 Z Pere ~) , it vas decided to create
cadre schools in South ust rance b-? i.'a ch, I9 'O,
this decision may have Motivated CUTJDII''s trip to Toulouse-7713 ur her
information ro gaff n such a meeting was recc:i_ved, however, and
hat no cadre schools were operating in the
:,rrexree area at that tine,
!! C0r7ADA was reportedly replaced during June, 1950 as Secreta-t?y
General of the CPS in I Mexico
Com icnt: This breakdomm of the structure of the CPS
in 'nonce rolds manly for the Pyrenees area and specifically
for Haute Garonne; whether such an orgenizational framework
fc r the Party actually exists, other than on a theoretical
basis, in the remaining areas of a rance is not known,,
* * BD IZQU Z has been reported to be in the bad graces of the CPS ,
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