LIAISON BETWEEN FRENCH AND ITALIAN COMMUNIST PARTIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009400430002-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 27, 1999
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: December 6, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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0 There area reportedly regular contact' between thePartito Comtsna.ieta
Italiano. (PCI; Italian Communist Pax ) and the . Parts,,Comuniste
'ranca (FOP; French -Com ?aunist Party). T,.,me , contacts are-1couriers
selected from among the most truustwortr coxsrad::~ whose association:.
with the Party is generally unknw.+11., 'he .wc xx term have,. re~;t .ar ` es
ports and are engaged in normal oommercia.. ox 3cnal igtic act$i 4tie:sQ
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The. number of the =couriers is limited W.;: their... activity is""'r-660A
tad by a Central,-Office of the PCI in cl-iarge. of handling contra,ctiA.
other: Communist Parties. Edoardo D? Onofrio is believed `' to be .:the
Director of. this office.
2. Peripheral liaison is authorized for urgent questions in the`;f'rontier
zones,, in particular questions dealing with clandestine expatriation,
introduction of propaganda materials, and facilitation of entrance
and systemization of more or less official delegations. On the Italian
side, the Regional Secretary with jurisdiction over the interested
frontier zone in responsible n
3, The Liguria Regional. Secretary uses the Imperia Federation for such
needs end is in a position to provIde courier services at any momm+nta
The following individuals are being used by the Imperia Federations
a,c. Libero Alborno, residing at Ventimiglia, Latte suburb (trazione)
fervent Cortmmunisst, is presumedly responsible for the para-
military organization of the zone. In the past it has been re-
ported that he held meetings of Italian and French Communists in
his home, located in a mountain zone very close to the frontier
line, He engages in contraband. He has-, considerable influence
in the zone, especially with the guides. His contacts with :the.
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Comanmist
Eraldo
vai, residing in. Mentone, have ;been aicer -
ta.iaaed. He allegedly is utilized by the Party, particularly
for clandestine expatriation and has the collaboration.of fisher-
men and guides, not yet identified, as well as Francesco Tossello,
a blacksmith, born at V?allecrosia 11 March 1898s residing at
Ventimiglia since 1925, coming from Marseilles. Tosseilo, a . Com
munist, is well-known in the zone for his friendship to Alborno
who about two years ago used him to get rid of several suitcases
containing arms on the occasion of a possible police search of
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1a, Nino Siooerdi, alias Curto, residing at Imperiaa 17 Via Bonfantea
t for ceasaandirsg off iaer of partisan form&ticsx and former
Palitioal Queatore of Imperia after 25 April 19454 He is ell.eg..
ed]y a chief of the parrs-military organizations in the zone.
Sixs.ce 1950 he has been suspected of carrying out courier functions
beeuse of his frequent departures toward the French border and
for his contacts with fishermen and guides. The Party put his
a k.da after the disorders following the attempted assassination of
Palo Togliatti when he assssualted a priest. In December 1950 he
wasp sentenced to prison for one year and two months. On 27 April
1950 he embarked as second machinist on the SS S, FELICEO which
to Rumanlm and Bulgarian ports. In December 1950 he disem-
ked from the ship to stand trial. Since 3 January he has been
working as first machinist on the SS ARCCIBALEN05, a merchant ship
,which touches Casablanca,, Bona,, and Dutch ports. Siccardi usu-
ally carries with him numerous copies of the Cist magazine
jke e which he distributes to natives in African ports.
psrt4ic ularly? delicate questions,, the Regional Secretary uses a
pers. . courier, allegedly Bruno Piombini0 Piombini was born at
? tnoa, M. July 2921 resides at 21 Via Pri .ta 1-:tefano Sanguinetis,
( noa } He Is an ac tant and is employed by the Genoa City Hail
and avo etary of Cc n Employees Unions affiliated with the Italian
Goer ral Confederation of Labor. Piambini has passport No01643507/
3.0673 issued by the Genoa Questura on 5 July 1949 for the purpose of
catribt tiang to "exchange of culture between Italy and other coun-
oriae," Piombini bras absent from Genoa for two months in the spring
of 1951 when he is b .ieved to have gone to France. Now that Genoa
has a Christiana-Democrat administration,, Piombini will probably no
1. e;u bave+ the freedom of movement which he has had and will not be
p ition to carry out tasks for the Party abroad.
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