RADIO PRAUGE BROADCASTS ON ITALIAN DEVELOPMENTS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008900080004-6
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 24, 2000
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: October 24, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION RE-PORT
COUNTRY Italy
SUBJECT Radio Prague Broadcasts
on Italian Developments
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24 Oct. 1951
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1o Radio Prague reportedly retransmits the news commentary,, "Today In Italy"
which it receives daily from Italy. At the Partito Comunista italiano
(PCI; Italian Communist Party) Directorate on Via Botteghe Oscure, Rome,
there is an office where day-by-day information of all kinds is gathered,
selected, drawn up, and put into a bulletin destined exclusively for cer-
tain organs controlled by the PCI. This bulletin includes information
which is used by Radio Prague.
2, Persons who contribute as "producers of information and editors of infor-
mation" area
a., Alfredo Reichlin, born at Barletta on 26 May 1925, chief editor
of and director of the weakly &r Lna Z M Qta a, er
n Democrazb Po olare, lives at 71 Via Alessandria, Ram;
b. Gino Bardi., born on 12 June 1907, naturalized American citizen,
although recently it seems that his American citizenship was
annulled, director of the Telepress Agency, 38 Viale Giulio
Cesare, lives at 4 Via Gavinana, Rome;
uele Rocco, born in Rome on 25 August 1922
editor of
,
fervent Communist, lives at 7 Via S. Valentino;
do Gino Pallotta, Political Vice-Secretary of the PCI Section of
Salario, Rome, member of the Rome PCI Federation,, IF- of the recently formed Italo-Rumanian Association, among other
things he,, assisted by his wife, has the task of gathering po-
litical information;
e. Francesco Longo, editor of y2i , assigned to the compiling of
informational texts dealing with foreign policy only;
f. Luigi Longo, Junior, born in Tiflis, U a 3R, on 3 March 1923,
married to a Russian citizen, Tamara,,Lisizian, member of the
TASS Agency, lives in 16 Via Mingazzini, Roam;
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Ezio Taddei, born in Leghorn an 2 October 1895$ Anarachiet-
Comaamnist, Informer of and the PCI, lives at 21 Piazza
Monte Vecchio Rome; and
hq Pier Luigi Battietrada, born in Ascoli Piceno on 18 July 1925,
former student in Rm at Communist expense, lives in Pragm
where he was sent by the Central Directorate of the PCI to the
Propaganda Center of the Cominform, as editor and reporter in
the Italian language, brother of PCI activists, Franco and
Lucia -Manljo Battistrada.
The Information is diatrIbuted daily by the PCI to organs of the Party
and to the following organizations
a, Telepraasss agency,, 38 Yiale Giulio Cesare, Row, has an authorized
transmitter and a branch office in Prague. The copy for Telepress
in consigned to Gino Bardi, The agency is a branch of the Agenzia
Nazionale StwVas, Asssooiata (ANSA; National Associated Press Agency)
which replaced the Stefani agengr in 1942 and which w founded by
PCI elements.
TASS agen+cV, 4 Via Uaria Adelaide, Rome,,, is in contact with. Radio
Stmvpa, another off-shoot of ANSAI, Copy is consigned to, the editor.
0m Soviet Embasssy, Press Attache Nihau Rogov0 It is not mown how or
by' whom the bulletin is picked up or delivered at its destination.,
4e The bulletiia,, once passed to the above organizational, is exploited for
transmission behind the Iron Curtain with all possible means, including
costmanioationo or integration of radio-transmitted news regularly issued
by Telepress and Radio Sttuupan TASS agency In particular uses Radio
Stang In 1950 it spent 70000,000 lire for such services.
5- The `Soviet ,weeny and the PCX directly prowide news to Radio Prague by
means ofthe 1r own, The Soviet Embassy has powerful stations,, The exist.
enoe of a radio station In the PCI is still confirmed by reliable inform.
ants, The PCI also has available Communist radio amateurs,, regularly
registered or clandestine., who are in a position to furnish Prague with
all interesting informaticn?
6Q Professsore Gaetano Napol.itano, who was bound to the interests of A1TSA,
opposed and succeed in blocking the project for reconstruction of the
UarAnt agency when it was being taken up in Parliament. The POI was
the 01119 political force In Italy which had any interest in keeping the
ANSt at ivea The PCI won with or without the help of Professor Napolitano,
The PCI not only succeeded in stopping the rebirth of Stefani which would
have abosrbed ANSA but also created ,through ANSA,two new agencies, Radio
Stave and. Telepress 4 These two agencies today are Instruments for normal
and clandestine transmissions for the Communist cause, and therefore,
against Italy.
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