DOCUMENT 33

Memorandum on the results of the work of the ECCI’s 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 SECRETARIAT’S 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 Commission’s 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 Commission’s 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.