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Chart8 COMMUNIST NETWORK The USSR enjoys further unique capabilities as a result of its identification with the Communist ideology. Soviet interests benefit from the mere existence of the ideal of Communism; producing a splitting effect on Western society and attracting foreign support to the USSR as the citadel of this secular faith. Communism's emphasis on inflaming resentment among the under - privileged is designed not only to facilitate the building of Communist parties as instruments of Soviet power, butto set class against class and country against country, to create confusion, and to cast doubts on the validity of the very principles that underlie the non-Communist way of life. In its organizational aspect, Communism has led to the creation of mass political parties and underground organizations (in some countries it is restricted to underground activities) with an estimated total mem- bership of some 15 1/2 million persons. These parties by their influence in both the political and economic life of foreign countries cause division and operate as open pressure groups in support of Soviet policy. In addition, the hard core of the Communist parties is available as a disci- plined and fanatic force for strike action, espionage, sabotage and sub- version on behalf of the USSR. Parallel with the Communist parties, a variety of national and inter- national Communist-front organizations serve to rally foreign sympathy for Soviet policy or at least to create doubts and fears over US policy. Similarly, Communist infiltration of national liberal and labor groups has often served to divide and discredit the non-Communist left. aided and world, Thus, the Soviet Union, inits struggle with the non-Communist is abetted by a vast world Communist network==a network un- limited in its choice of tactics; a network that resorts to any approach thatappears potentially effective in weakening the free world and advanc- ing Soviet domination. The chart opposite graphically summarizes the techniques of the Communist network.

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