ITALIAN COMMUNIST PARTY ACTIVITIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008900080007-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 24, 2000
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: October 8, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Italy
SUBJECT Italian Communist Party Activities
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factory committees. Yet only half of the PCI'a worker members were organized
in factory cells. There were aver 11,000 industrial establishments (Medium.
and small, for the most part) in which the Party had failed to penetrate,
where itseactlvities could not be conducted In the open, and front organizations
had to be employed? Among large enterprises in which the Party had. made little
progress were Olivetti of lvrea, the RIV bell bearing works near Turin, the
textile works in the Udine area, and several works in r.nd around Dan ,
2. It was found that the political importance of the cell had to be constantly
stressed. Party courses were intended to turn out activiato who would bring
home this vital truth, and pass on effoctively to the base the decisions of
the Party leaders,
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1p Statistics recently compiled by the PCI Central Mass Organization Commission
shoved that there were approximately 11.500 PCI factory cells gnA 17 Ann
3. There were now 375,000 Party Itpex nent't activists. J"n order had been Issued
that this number must be raised to 5000'000.
Of the oabove figuJ , some 111,000 were heads of groups of 10, known as
Collectors (Co.llettort), Only a few Federations have achieved the criterion
of one collector to 10 members, including those of Rome, . Turin, Genoaa,and.
Feggio Emilia. In the Emilia as to whole, !he proportion was I : 14,, in
Tuscany -,nd the t,arche I : 15, and in Sardinia 1 : 17.
5. The Party still laid great stress on the value of the collector system. The
f tion of the collector was not only to so that dues were paid, but to keep
his men up to the mark '7politically'', check on their reading matter, see that
they attended meetings, and so on. -Party 1=eadqua.rters sent out its own in
specters from time to time to the Provinces to see that the collector system
was working properly.
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b v Special efforts were being made to improva the political consciousness
of the base of the Party in the Veneto Region and in southern Italy.
There were certa i.n difficulties, since many of the local organizers 'we-e
corrupt or opportunist, and since those sent in from outside had trouble
in winning the confidence of the local people.
7 One of the resolutions of the VII Party Congress had been to ralvze the
activities of the breakaway union& ? To achieve this, special attention
was being paid to workers of no political party, and to the work of gradual
persuasion, Party activists were constantly instructed to differentiate be-
tween the activities of the leaders of hostile parties and those of Uie rank
and file members.
8 , The Party Is confident that it will be able to regain some of the ground
which it lost at the recent local elections by taking advantage of mistake
committed by the Councillors of opposing parties. These mistakes, 'ich
will be encouraged if posaiblo, will be denounced where possible by those
who are technically independents.
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