Memorandum Distributed to the Department of State, Department of War, and the Department of the Navy

NA7 SLORL fill state Haw copies put MDD was DECLASSIFIED many E.O. 12065, Sec. 3-402 Co State Dept. Guideline, June 12, 1979 By NLT-HC NARS, Date 10-20-th EVALUATION B-2. DATE OF INFORMATION 26 DECEMBER. DISTRIBUTION EMBASSY. l. SPECIAL MEETING OF KKE LEADERS AND REPRESENTATIVES OF COMINTERN KLIMAKION HELD RUSSIAN EMBASSY ON NIGHT OF 25 DECEMBER. ATTENDING WERE KARAMIZEV, KARAGEORGE, VASSILIADES, GORKY VOUMBANOV, TCHERNICHEV (RUSSIAN CHARGE D'AFFAIRE), AND NEWCOMER NAMED DOUNDANSKOV WHO ARRIVED ATHENS WITH GORKY ABOUT 23 DECEMBER. NEWCOMER ABOUT 35 YEARS OLD, BLOND HAIR, BLUE EYES, 6 FEET TALL, AND DESCRIBED BY GORKY AS NEW CHIEF DEUXIEME BUREAU OF KKE AND COMINTERN BUREAU OF INFORMATION (PRESUMABLY THAT WITHIN GREECE). NEWCOMER WILL WORK CLOSELY WITH VASSILIADES. 2. ACCORDING GORKY, COMINTERN KLIMAKI ON WILL HENCEFORTH BE COMPOSED OF GORKY AS CHIEF AND CHARGES D' AFFAIRES OF RUSSIAN AND JUG LEGATIONS AS COLLABORATORS. ALSO COLLABORATORS WILL BE KARAGEORGE, BESDEKIS AND OTHERS NOT NAMED. LEADERS OF KKE TO BE GUIDED BY NEW COMINTERN KLIMAKION RECEIVING ORDERS VIA VASSILIADES. 3. FORMER KLIMAKION PERSONNEL GI VEN NEW POSITIONS AS FOLLOWS: BIBESCO, POLITICAL COMMISSAR OF ARMY IN EPIRUS. BOVRENOVIC, POLITICAL COMMISAR OF TRUMAN UNITS IN STERREA, VOISLAV, POLITICAL COMMISSAR OF UNITS IN THESSALY. RADZEVELO, ASSISTANT TO BARTZOTAS (also RECEIVED c 5. ARCHIVES **NATIONAL SERVICE* RECORDS AND the BACTZOTAS), FREE GOVERNMENT MINISTER OF FINANCE. 4. GORKY ANNOUNCED ALL FUTURE MEETINGS TO BE HELD AT RUSSIAN EMBASSY ONLY, FOR SECURITY. ALSO THAT DISTURBANCES ARE FORBIDDEN UNTIL ARRIVE GENERAL ORDERS FOR STRIKES AND DISTRUBANCES TO BE COORDINATED WITH SAME IN ITALY AND FRANCE IN EARLY SPRING WHEN COMMUNIST ATTACKS WILL TAKE PLACE SUDDENLY. ALSO THAT FORMATION OF FREE GOVERNMENT was COMPLICATED BY DIFFERENCES AMONG TITO, DIMITROV AND ZACHARIADES OVER DISTRIBUTION OF