Note: The following 11 page declassified U.S. CIA Dept document (created c. 1954), was obtained through a FOIA (Freedom Of Information Act) request.

COMMUNIST PENETRATION OF LABOR UNIONS (c. 1954)

INTRODUCTION

"Lenin taught that Communists must be able "to agree to any sacrifice and even - if needs be - to resort to all sorts of strategems, manoeuvers, illegal methods, to evasions and subterfuges, only so as to get into the trade unions, to remain in them and to carry on Communist work within them at all costs."

There is ample evidence that Communists have long considered Lenin's statement as a guiding principle in trade union work, and they have developed the technique of penetrating and exploiting trade unions to a high degree of proficiency.

The purpose of this paper is to illustrate how the Communists, taking advantage of conditions as they existed in a selected group of countries, were able to penetrate and exploit the trade union movement for their own purposes."... 

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