CABLE RE CPUSA.
Originator: CIA
From: WITHHELD
To: NONE
Document date: 10/16/1970
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

## Page 1

AAAAA

104-10074-1033

2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

21÷20

SECRET T OCT OCT CITE RIO DE JANEIR@ 419 (ARKLEIGH ACTING)

HEADQUARTERS

02

RYBAT MHCURB, MHCHAOS

-02

FOLLOWING INFORMATION OBTAINED BYCADSAC=3 FROM

So EISENCHER OF CPUSA WHILE BOTH VACATIONING AT SOCHI, USSR

DURING AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 1970• MQS ELEMENT PROCESSING THIS

INFORMATION FOR DISSEMINATION IS REQUESTED TO CLEAR SOURCE

DESCRIPTION, AUTHENTICATION AND DISSEMINATION CONTROLS WITH

AREA DESK. (ALSACO3 IS SENSITIVE SOURCE WHO SUSCEPTIBLE TO

SCRUTINY BY KGB. EISENCHER WAS ACCOMPANIED BY HIS WIFE.

2°

THE CPUSA HAS CLOSE TO 14, DOD MEMBERS, MAJORITY OF

ARE

WHOM UE LABORERS. OVER 25 PERCENT OF MEMBERS ARE

NEGROES

AND THEY FUNCTION/RASTEALLY IN THE NORTH AMERICAN MEGRO MOVE -

MENT• THE CPUSA HAS RECENTLY ORGANIZED A YOUNG COMMUNIST

MOVEMENT.... THE PARTY ALSO PARTICIPATES HEAVILY IN THE LABOR

MOVEMENT. AT A RECENT (UNNAMED) LABOR MEETING OF REPRESENTA-

TIVES FROM VARIOUS REGIONS OF THE USA, OF THE S8 UNIONS

REPRESENTED, THE CPUSA HAD DIRECT INFLUENCE IN 26 OF THEM.

THE MAGAZINE "LABOR PARTY" PLAYS AN IMPORTANI ROLE IN

COORDINATING MOVEMENIS. WITHIN THE LABOR RANKS. DESPITE

ACTION

HUNG

3 - C/Area

4 - Station File

10624

KEYPUNCHED

29 00119705

5/PV

---

## Page 2

14-00000

21-20

PAGE 2 RIO DE JANEIRO)419 SECRET

NUMEROUS BARRIERS, THE CPUSA IS CONCENTRAIING ITS EFFORTS IN

CHICAGO, LOS ANGELES AND NEW YORK AS WELL AS OTHER REGIONS OF

IMPORTANCE.

30 THE CPUSA RECENTLY ADOPTED A COMMON STRATEGY TOWARDS

THE PEACE MOVEMENTS. (NOTE: INDICATION HERE IS THAT THE

PARTY DID NOT HAVE A UNIFIED APPROACH BUT WHAT THE NEW

STRATEGY IS WAS NOT SPECIFIED). CRITICISMS OF THE SOVIET

UNION BY THE RADICAL LEFT MAOISTS, FIDELISIS, AND TROTSKYITES

CAUSE PROBLEMS BUT APPEAR TO KAVE ABATED SOMEWHAT.

4. REGARDING RELATIONS WITH CUBA, HENRY WINSTON, CPUSA

NATIONAL CHAIRMAN, TRAVELLED TO CUBA FOLLOWING THE JUNE 1969

WORLD CONFERENCE OF SOMMUNIST PARTIES WHERE HE CONVERSED WITH

FIDEL: CASTRO AND OTHER CUBAN LEADERS RESULTING IN A WARMING

OF THE RELATIONS BETWEEN THE TWO PARIIES.

50 CALZAC-3 WAS GIVEN THE FOLLOWING CONTACI INSTRUCTIONS

SY LEON (LAU) , WHO SPOKE A LITTLE SPANISH, IN THE EVENT

CONTACT IN THE USA WOULD BE REQUIRED IN THE FUTURE.

IN

NEW YROK CITY TELEPHONE 368-9913 (WORK) OR 368-5955 (RESIDENCE)

AND ARRANGE MEETING WHICH WOULD TAKE PLACE BEHIND A TELEPHONE

BOOTH ON THE STREET AT THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY.

z/rV

---

## Page 3

14-00000

71-80

PAGE 3 RIO DE JANEIRO)419 SE CR

6...

fILE: DEFER.

: GP-1

SECRET

E

---