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    "ocrText": "SECRESSIFIED\n81\n(8)\nAPPENDIX B\nORGANIZATIONAL NOTES\nThe organization of the Tudeh Party is rep-\nsections or divisions in the party be directed\nresented graphically in the accompanying\nby a member of the Central Committee.\nchart. The data included in the chart, as\nc. Political Bureau (Politbureau).\nwell as the discussion of party organization\nin the body of this estimate, are mainly based\nA steering sub-committee of the Central\nCommittee, consisting of five key members,\non field reports and Ovanessian's Fundamen-\nwhich meets several times a week to exercise\ntals of the Organization of a Party, which con-\ncontinuous control over party activities.\ntains many specific references to the Tudeh\nParty despite its predominantly theoretical\nd. Secretariat.\ncharacter. Notes to accompany the chart\nThe executive or supervisory body of the\nfollow.\nparty, made up of three members of the Po-\nlitical Bureau and including the party's titu-\n1. Central Control Bodies.\nlar head, the secretary-general.\na. Annual Congress.\ne. Inspection Commission.\nTheoretically, the highest council of the\nA semi-secret body, second in importance\nparty. Delegates chosen, on call of the Cen-\nonly to the Central Committee, which is simi-\ntral Committee, by regional conferences which\nlarly designated by the Annual Congress. Ap-\nare also supposed to draw up recommendations\nparently members of the two committees often\nfor the program of the Congress. In effect,\nexchange places in alternate elections. Con-\na rally of party leaders for purposes of ratify-\ntrols financial accounts, investigates the con-\ning decisions of the Central Committee which,\nduct of party members, and checks the organ-\nalong with the Inspection Commission, the\nization of party agencies.\nCongress nominally selects. First Congress\nmet 1 August 1944 with 164 delegates. Second\nf. Secret Section.\nCongress met 1 May 1948 with 118 delegates.\nThe liaison body between the Secretariat\n(Each delegate theoretically represents 300\nand agencies of the USSR.\nmembers.)\n2. Operational Agencies.\nb. Central Committee.\nAn interim committee designated by the\na. Publicity Section.\nCongress to carry on the latter's functions\nOne of the most important and perhaps the\nwhen it is not in session; in practice, the party's\nmost active unit in the party organization.\nreal policy-making body. The Central Com-\nCharged with responsibility for all phases of\nmittee's membership (about ten in the first\ndisseminating the party's message, following\nCentral Committee named by the 1944 Con-\nthe Communist concept of agitation (directed\ngress, twenty in the Committee designated in\nat the general public) and propaganda (di-\n1948) is supposed to include representatives\nrected toward party members). The section\nis headed by Ahmad Qasemi, a prolific dialec-\nof each large district or province, but most of\ntician, and has been highly successful in re-\nthe members are actually resident in Tehran.\ncruiting talent from the student-intellectual\nPlenary sessions are held about once every\nclass. Major activities include: (1) Publica-\nthree months with the Tehran group meeting\ntion of the official party newspaper Mardom\nabout once a month. Party practice seems to\nat Tehran and several provincial papers at\nrequire that most of the major operational\nsuch towns as Mashhad, Rasht, Tabriz, Isfa-\nS ECRET\n17\nUNCLASSIFIED"
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