US Congressional Guide to SUBVERSIVE Organizations & Publications, 1951

The committee has ascertained that a Communist front is an 
organization or publication created or captured by the Communists to 
do the party's work in special fields. The Communist front is the 
greatest weapon of communism in the country today because subterfuge 
often makes it difficult to recognize its true Communist nature. The 
Communist front does not hesitate to camouflage its true purposes 
behind such moral and human appeals as "peace" and "civil rights'' 
when it serves the Communist purpose and the aims of the Soviet 
Union. This guide can serve no better purpose than properly identi-
fying such organizations. 

By "outright'" Communist enterprises, the committee refers to such 
organizations as the Communist Party, U. S. A., whose subservience to 
Soviet Russia and international communism cannot be disguised. An 
examination of the compilation will disclose relatively few organiza- 
tions of this nature as compared with the hundreds of front organiza- 
tions set up by the Communist Party.

....The rise of Adolf Hitler to power created a new threat to the Soviet 
Union and to the international Communist movement. Hence the 
Seventh Congress of the Communist International, in 1935, gave an 
added impetus to the creation of front organizations under Commu-
nist initiative and leadership, the chief purpose of which was to pro- 
tect and serve the Communist Party and the Soviet Union. The abil- 
ity of the Communists to ensnare large numbers and influential indi- 
viduals, to serve as decoys in operating these fronts, reached its high 
point following the Seventh Congress in 1935, 

HOW COMMUNIST FRONTS ARE ESTABLISHED 

The methods employed by the Communists in establishing and op- 
erating these front organizations, methods demonstrated by the various 
organizations herein cited, have been well summarized by a former 
high official of the Communist Party of the United States : 

A front organization is organized by the Communist Party in the following 
fashion : First, a number of sympathizers who are close to the party and 

whom the party knows can be depended upon to carry out party orders, are 

gotten together and formed into a nucleus which issues a call for the 

organization of a particular front organization which the party wants to 

establish. And generally after that is done a program is drawn up by the 

party, which this provisional committee adopts. Then, on the basis of this 

provisional pro.irram. all kinds of individuals are canvassed to become 

sponsors of the organization, which is to be launched in the very near 

future. A provisional secretary is appointed before the organization is 

launched and in every instance in our day the secretary who was 
appointed was a member of the Communist Party. * * * ^jj^] ^g president of 
the organization we would put up some prominent public figure who was 

willing to accept the presidency of the organization, generally making sure 

that, if that public figure was one who would not go along with the 

Communists, he was of such a type that he would be too busy to pay attention 

to the affairs of the organization. * * * 

On the committee that would be drawn together, a sufficient number of 

Communists and Communist Party sympathizers, who would carry out party 

orders, was included, and out of this number a small executive committee was organized. 

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• ♦ ♦ which carried on the affairs of the organization, so-called, and this 
small executive committee, with the secretary, really ran the organization. 

And this small committee and the secretary are the instruments of the 

Communist Party, with the result that when manifestos or decisions on 

campaigns are made, those campaigns are ordered by the Communist Party. 

(Hearings of the Special Committee on Latin-American Activities, vol. 7, pp. 

4^10, Jflll, ^118.'^ 

MEMBERSHIP IN FRONT ORGANIZATIONS 

III Judging the individuals associated with Communist-front organizations, 

to determine the degree of their responsibility for its activities and their 

closeness to the Communist Party, one should be guided by 
consideration of the following categories of individuals included with- 
in them: 

1. Members of the Communist Party who have openly avowed their affiliation. 

2. Members of the Communist Party, not openly avowed, proven to be such on 
the basis of documentary or other proof. 

3. Those accepting Communist Party discipline, either secret party members 
or outsiders who accept such discipline and instruction. This category may 

be recognized by the regularity with which it follows the line of the 

Communist Party, throughout all its variations, by the number of different 

front affiliations, by the posts they occupy in these front organizations, 

and by the fact that they retain their affiliation after the organization 

has been publicly exposed. 

4. Those who have been attracted by the high-sounding aims of the front 

organization or organizations, by the prominence of its sponsors, or by a 

desire to be sociable. The judgment of such persons is certainly open to 

criticism just as much as if they aided in launching any other hoax... 

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