STRUCTURE OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF SPAIN IN FRANCE

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October 9, 1950
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COUNTRY ItY;~? "'_"-.r' e CD NO. IY CP 4~.1 9 ~ Will SUBJECT Struct-jre of the Corniiunict Party of Spain in France ! ATF DISTR 9 OC 11, 50 NO. OF PACES 7 NO. OF ENCLS. 25X1 (LISTED) t3ELOW) 25X1 SUPPLEMENT TO REPORT NO. 25X1 THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION 25X1 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) 25X1 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 CPS organization in Franco 25X1 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 CON~~~EN-1IAL 25X1 Approved For Release 2003/12/22 : CIA-RDP82-00457R005900780012-3 Approved For Rel SEC~jw gaze 2003112112 . ,?1 w U 1j 2-3 C 14"2 1M r EJ,:UJ. J... AGENCY 25X1 25X1 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 L7 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 per .. "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 Approved For Release 2003/12/22 : CIA-RDP82-00457ROO5900780012-3 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 25X1 25X1 25X1 25X1 25X1 25X1 CONFIDENTIAL 4i- 0012-3 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. Approved For Release 2003/12/22 QUVA-011 r- that anong these cells were: T7umier of lernbers ;l.espons_i.Lle Officer Carbonne 11 Jose Fonsorbes 12 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: Approved For Release 2003/12/22 : CIA-RDP82-00457R005900780012-3 Approved For Release 2003/12/22 : G1,P('6F0Q56j12-3 25X1 25X1 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 : ':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 15 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 CONFIDENTIAL 25X1 25X1 25X1 25X1 Approved For Release 2003/12/22 : CIA-RDP82-00457R005900780012-3 [:HNF1HF1\11 III Approved For,Re F e 2003/12/22: CIA-RDP82-00457RO 9 6780012'-3 ,_.4.L 25X1 ,.E .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,. 25X1 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 ;. 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, " " 25X1 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, it 25X1 an important part of Communist military projects or France.. 25X1 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 25X1 CONFIDENTIAL Approved For Release 2003/12/22 : CIA-RDP82-00457R005900780012-3 a 1AT81AL 25X1 Approved Fo 2003/12/22: CIA-RDP82-00457R0 8 25X1 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- -TP'. LA (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, 1 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 , 25X1 25X1 25X1 25X1 25X1 II Approved For Release 2003/12/22 : CIA-RDP82-00457R005900780012-3