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Communist parties. The Australian Communists, in turn, have
supported other Communists in Indonesia, Malaya,and India. At
home, the ACP employs the typical Communist techniques for
spreading propaganda. It makes use of "front" organizations
and attempts the exploitation of disaffected groups, chiefly recent
immigrants.
Criticism by the political opposition at home, coupled with the
impression that the US considers the Australian Government un-
trustworthy from a security viewpoint, have prompted the Govern-
ment to tighten its security system recently. Among other measures,
the Government's security agency, the Commonwealth Investigation
Services (CIS), is being reorganized and strengthened in accordance
with recommendations made by British security experts. The ability
of the reorganized CIS to carry out its mission, however, cannot yet
be assessed.
If the present official and public trend against the ACP as
demonstrated by anti-Communist reaction within the trade unions --
should continue, the power of Australia's Communists may be
significantly lessened. It may be assumed that many Labor mili-
tants who now follow the ACP lines as a tactic in domestic affairs
would break with the Communists if confronted with a wartime choice
between supporting the USSR or Australia. Under these circumstances,
ACP ability to cripple Australian production would be minimized.
Nevertheless, it is believed that militant influence within the
Labor Party will continue to be a deterrent to a strong Government
anti-Communist campaign and that the ACP is still capable of tem-
porarily crippling Australian production.
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