DOCUMENT
33
Memorandum
on the results of the work of the ECCIs Secretariat Commission to verify the
qualifications of the ECCI apparatus.
5.
II. 37.
Top secret.
MEMORANDUM
ON THE RESULTS OF THE WORK OF THE ECCI
SECRETARIATS COMMISSION TO VERIFY THE QUALIFICATIONs OF THE ECCI APPARATUS.[i]
During
the time of its work, the commission reviewed 387 cases of workers of
the ECCI apparatus and of the international organizations.
The
cases reviewed can be broken down according to individual sections and sectors:
1. Workers of the
Secretariats 69
2. ICC 2
3. Cadres Department 37
4. Bureau of the
Secr[etari]at 25
5. Translations
Department 60
6. Propaganda
Department 39
7. Public[ations]
Sector 15
8. Editorial Board of
the
K[ommunistichesky] I[nternatsional] 20
9. Representatives of
the Parties 26
10. Sections 32
11. Party Committee and Local
[Trade Union] Committee 2
12. KIM 1
13. For[eign] Workers Publ[ishing] House 11
14. Various intern[ational] organizations 48.
By party composition:
1. Members of the
VKP(b) 107
2. Members of the KSM
[Komsomol] 25
3. Non-party members 66
4. Members of the
fraternal parties 189
including:
1. CP of Germany 92
2. France 7
3. England 10
4. USA 9
5. Austria 9
6. Romania 3
7. Yugoslavia 3
8. Hungary 3
9. Latvia 4
10. Lithuania 3
11. Italy 4
12. Turkey 2
13. Iran 1
14. Poland 3
15. Czechoslovakia 8
16. Norway 2
17. Brazil 2
18. Finland 5
19. Holland 1
20. Belgium 2
21. Australia 1
22. Switzerland 3
23. Greece 2
24. Bulgaria 6
25. Denmark 1
26. Syria 1
27. China 1
28. Cuba 1.
Of
all the cases that were reviewed, according to the preliminary decision of the
Commission, 71 people were slated to be removed from the ECCI apparatus and
the internat[ional] organizations.
After
additional verification in the course of the Commissions work and after
revising its previous decisions, the Commission considers it necessary to
relieve from work in the ECCI apparatus and in the international organizations
only 58 people (rather than 71 people).
In
the Commissions opinion, 14 people [sic, 13] about whom a decision had been
previously made to remove [them from work], can be temporarily kept in the
apparatus until adequate replacements are found.
Distribution of those
to be removed [from work]:
1. The
Secretaries Apparatus 7
people
2. The
Bureau of the Secretariat 2
3. Translations
Department 13
4. Propaganda 6
5. Cadres 2
6. Edit[orial]
and Pub[lishing] [Department] 5
7. Editorial
Board of the K[ommunistichesky]
I[nternatsional] 3
8. ICC 1
9. KIM 1
10. For[eign] Workers Pub[lishing] House 7
11. Various international organizations 9
TOTAL 58 people.
The breakdown of those
to be removed, by party affiliation:
1. VKP(b)
members 10
2. KSM
members 1
3. Non-party
members 11
4. Members
of the fraternal parties 35
including:
1) CP of
Germany 19
2) Hungary 1
3) Austria 2
4) Czechoslovakia 1
5) Yugoslavia 1
6) France 5
7) USA 1
8) Poland 1
9) Belgium 1
10) Italy 1
11) Sweden 1
12) Norway 1
The breakdown of those slated to be removed, by
political motives:
1. Ties
to the c[ounter]r[evolutionary] group of E[mel] Lurye 6
2.
David and Berman 5
3.
E. Wendt 3
4.
Susskind 2
5. Trotskyist
connections 16
6. Politically
unreliable 4
7. Suspic[ious]
and not exp[osed] [previously] 11
8. Unsuitable
qualifications 4
9. Affiliated
to the anti-par[ty] groups (of Brandler and others) 4.
At
this moment, 12 out of 57 people who are slated to be removed, are no longer
working in the apparatus, among them:
1. In the
Secretariats 1 person(s)
2. In the
Translations Department 5
3. In the
Cad[res] Department 1
4. ICC 1
5. Edit[orial]
Board of the K[ommunistichesky]
I[nternational] 2
6. Propaganda
Dep[artment] 2
RGASPI, f. 495, op. 21, d. 52, ll. 23-25.
Original in Russian.
Typewritten.
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[i] Note that the numbers presented in the report do not always add up to the totals presented. The problem is in the document, not the translation. All underlined sections of the document are as in the original.