CIA THINKS ITALY, FRANCE, INDONESIA CHIEF RED TARGETS FOR CONQUEST

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• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 3, 2000
• Sequence Number: 42
• Publication Date: September 16, 1956
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c3f4 Thinks Italy, France, Indonesia
rue following resume of a
, -sport to the Committee on
tTn-American Activities by.,
Allen W. Dulles, director of
r,he Central Intelligence
Agency., the U. S. agency for
ferreting out information about
,.world dangers, is presented in
more detail' than the spot
news report because of its in-
,crest and importance. Where
the dangers' of Communist
G(P* f rest, and why,
is t a subject.
t.hne Central Itltelligence Agen-
, listed Italy, France and
dofl sia as principal targets
the Kremlin's new strategy
f "park . entary" conquest.
He cited these areas as ones
which present "fresh oppor-
,,unities where the clearly an
ounced program of Messrs.
r-hrushchev and Bulgaali.n
might now be put into opera-
>,.
Lion."
Dulles" warning istcontained
in an anal ysWvf`6 'l'ent Com-
munist tactics w rich he sub-
mitted to he Gjommittee
in "Un-Ameriqan Activities.
Dulles,. together with more
.han 120 other prominent
17. S. government officials,
nilitary leaders, educators,
journalists, lab-dir officials,
iusiness skecutives, and po-
itical scientists are contrib-
uting statements for a sympo-
dum on the techniques of So-
.,let 'cold-warfare which the
lommittee on Un-Alertean
Red Targets for
quest
Activities is now p
for publication.
tion; Val Peterson, Federal
Civil Defense administi : ~"
the Chiefs of Staff, Gen. hf
well D. Taylor, Ad1n. Arles
mander, Allied Forces Europe;
G e o r g e Meahy, president,
AFL-CIO; David Sarztoff,
chairman, 'RCA; Prof. James
D. ` Atkinson, chairman, Pay-
chflogical Warfare Commit-
director, Foreign Policy ite-
search Institute, 'University of
Pennsylvania; Prof. Rodger
Swe-aringen.', coordinator,
School of International Rela-
tions, "UCLA.
As"iother part of its study
of international communism
the Committee Is also plan-
ning to obtain public testi-
mony from experts on com-
munism from Europe, the Far
East and Africa.
"A few years ago," Dulles
said, "I would have' thought
that Communist Parties in
Europe would have great dif-
ficulty in ever again obtaining
allies among any non-Com-
munist parties. . . . Today,
however, the danger of parlia-
mentary compromises th
the Communists, even in u-
rope, is not to be ignored.
ments. In several coun rtes
A ^4.
Dulles is brother of Secretary
of State.
"In Asia this threat is even
greater because it is generally
less well understood.
"A recent Indonesian gov
ernment permitted Commu-
nist influence to reach far
into the Ministry of Defense.
More than in Europe the
Communist Parties have man-
aged in many countries to ac-
quire a dangerous degree of
'respectability' and of accept-
ance as just another political
party."
"The Communists," Dulles
said, "see their greatest op=
portunities where they now
have the strongest penetra-
tion into the parliamentary
machinery of free govern-
now 143 Communist members.
To these must be added 75
Nenni fellaW-travelling left-
wing socialists or a total of
4i8 who consistently vote and
act with the Communists. To-
gether, in the last elections
in 1953, their total popular?
vote was 9.6. #lllons or 35.5
per cent of.thytotal.
"The French Chamber (if
Deputies 'presents another sit-
uation which the Kremlin ]i'iay
be studying. There are today
about 150 Communist mem-
bers in the Chamber out of a
present total of about 600.
"In Indonesia, the Commu-
nist Party received 6 millionw ~
votes, or 17 per cent of?'-the
total electorate in the elec-
tions ?f September, 1955, and
they stave a representation of
39 me'ribers or 15 per cent of
the total of the Indonesian
Asseml'ly."
Referring to the recent pro-
nouncements of tile Soviet
leadership, Dulles declared:
"Translated into a little less.'
flamboyant language this
means that,.,the Communists
propose to infiltrate our free
legislative systems, to take
over our parliamentary gov-.
ernments, and to use the frees,
dom which our system of gov-
ernment gives to destroy all.
vestiges of , that system.
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CPYRGHT
Jacques DuClos heads the
French Communist apparatus.
Y
it specifically, we can be sure
that the Soviet leaders still ac-
cept the view"announced most
vividly In Lenin's own heyday
-in the Statutes of the Third
Communist International in
1920-that `the Communist
Party enters such institutions
(as Parliaments) not. for the
purpose of organization work
but in order to blow up the
whole bourgeois machinery,
and the parliament Itself from
within'."
* * *
"In some 35 countries of
the world," Dulles noted, "the
Communist Party is illegal.
Here their rank and file,
though seriously large in sev-
i11'^1ri01i"rririlll7'
underground channels and the
more obvious fellow-traveller
front organizations without
direct political representation
in parliamentary bodies. How-
ever, in such areas as Singa-
pore, Communist - influenced
parties have an important po-
sition and are effective vehi-
cles for Communist activity."
While there is no instance
where the Communists have
taken over a country by free
elections or have obtained a
parliamentary majority by.
free elections, unfortunately
it Is also true that the Com-
munists have moved in with-
out having a majority status."
"Past Communist takeovers
of free countries have gener-
ally featured most, if not all,
of these four elements," Mr.
Dulles said:
"1. The use of force fr9ni
outside, or the overhanging
threat of force.
"2. The obtaining by the
Communists through popular
vote of at least an effective
minority position.
"3. The willingness of other
parties, most often the parties
to the left, but in some cases
even parties to the extreme
right, to join in political alli-
ances and to admit Commu-
nists to key positions in the
government.
comr4unist manipulation
of T ministries so that nou-
Comm ntstr, elements were
driven, out of positions of in-
fluence.
"The hest example of this
Anastase Mikoyan is a vet-
mom 'Soviet foreign affairs
official.
Grechislovakia. Mikoyan point-
edly and ominously boasted of
this Soviet 'feat' -Additional
variants are found in the cases
of Hungary and Poland, Ru-
mania and Bulgaria.
*
"In all of these cases, ex-
cept for Czechoslovakia, the
actual presence of Soviet
forces on the spot played a de-
cisive role. In Czechoslovakia
some of the same effect was
obtained by the presence, just
across the border, of strong
Soviet forces and by the fact
that the Soviets had previ-
ously occupied Prague and
m rnv nth.r im ~nrtsnt (".7nr?.h
centers and had been able, by
their terrorist and infiltra-
tion methods, to gain a posi-
tion of strength which far ex-
ceeded the numerical repre-
sentation in the population at
large. In fact, they prepared
the way for the coup before
they evacuated their troops in
1945."
The CIA director declared.
however, that the free world
has at least two advantages
in this situation:
"First of all (the Commu-
nists) have alerted us to their
program. While people world-
wide sometimes seem danger-
ougly complacent and' even
skeptical, it may yet be possi-
ble to rouse them to their
dangers.
"Secondly, the Communists
do not have any acknowledged
party members in high gov-
ernment positions, of cabinet
rank for example, in any of
the free countries, even there
where they have large parlia-
mentary representation. In
both France and Italy in the,
immediate postwar period they
did have such representation
but were thrown out in the
early years following the wart
* * *
"The Kremlin leaders have
told. us what they propose to
do. It is up to the leaders of
the free world, working toti,
gather as allies and friends, to
help to uncover and to frus'
trate this Communist design
which otherwise could threat
en to wreck the free Institu-
tions of many countries am
evan andanzer our awn."
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