29 December 1980* (Pb 230/34) Funding parties & movements abroad

POLITBURO decision. Financial assistance (in US$) in 1981 to Communist Parties and movements: USA, 2 million; France, 2 million; Finland, 1.4 million; Portugal, 700,000. A list of 57 recipients [R: 1980, 29 December]. 5 pp.

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Workers of all Lands, Unite!

[Text in top left hand corner of page]

Must be returned within three days to CPSU Central Committee (General Department, sector 1)

COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE SOVIET UNION. CENTRAL COMMITTEE

Top Secret

SPECIAL FILE

No. Pb 230 / 34

To Comrades Andropov and Ponomaryov

Excerpt from Minutes No. 230, Central Committee Politburo meeting, 29 December 1980

A request from the International Department of the CPSU Central Committee

1. Provide financial aid in 1981 to:

  • The US Communist Party – 2,000,000 dollars
  • The French Communist Party – 2,000,000 dollars
  • The Finnish Communist Party – 1,400,000 dollars
  • The Portuguese Communist Party – 700,000 dollars
  • The Greek Communist Party – 700,000 dollars
  • The Chilean Communist Party – 500,000 dollars
  • The Indian Communist Party – 500,000 dollars
  • The Venezuelan Communist Party – 400,000 dollars
  • The Israeli Communist Party – 400,000 dollars
  • The Lebanese Communist Party – 400,000 dollars
  • The Danish Communist Party – 350,000 dollars
  • The People’s Party of Iran – 300,000 dollars
  • The Peruvian Communist Party – 300,000 dollars
  • The Swiss Labour Party – 300,000 dollars
  • The Progressive Party of Cyprus (AKEL) – 300,000 dollars
  • The Iraqi Communist Party – 300,000 dollars
  • The Colombian Communist Party – 260,000 dollars
  • The Austrian Communist Party – 250,000 dollars
  • The Syrian Communist Party – 250,000 dollars
  • The Uruguayan Communist Party – 250,000 dollars

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  • The Luxemburg Communist Party – 200,000 dollars
  • The El Salvador Communist Party – 200,000 dollars
  • The Costa-Rican Party of the People’s Vanguard – 200,000 dollars
  • The Egyptian Communist Party – 200,000 dollars
  • The Canadian Communist Party – 200,000 dollars
  • The Guatemalan Labour Party – 150,000 dollars
  • The Dominican Communist Party – 150,000 dollars
  • The People’s Party of Panama – 120,000 dollars
  • The Honduras Communist Party – 120,000 dollars
  • The Sri Lankan Communist Party – 120,000 dollars
  • The Moroccan Party of Progress and Socialism – 100,000 dollars
  • The Swedish Communist-Workers’ Party – 100,000 dollars
  • The African National Congress (South Africa) – 100,000 dollars
  • The South-West African People’s Organisation (SWAPO) – 100,000 dollars
  • Problems of Peace and Socialism (periodical) – 100,000 dollars
  • The Paraguayan Communist Party – 100,000 dollars
  • The Socialist Workers’ Party, Nigeria – 90,000 dollars
  • The Madagascan Congress of Independence – 90,000 dollars
  • The Socialist Party of Australia – 75,000 dollars
  • The Party of the Socialist Vanguard, Algeria – 75,000 dollars
  • The National People’s Party of Bangladesh – 60,000 dollars
  • The Bangladesh Communist Party – 50,000 dollars
  • The Martinique Communist Party – 50,000 dollars
  • The Irish Communist Party – 50,000 dollars
  • The Jordanian Communist Party – 50,000 dollars
  • The Norwegian Communist Party – 50,000 dollars

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  • The Turkish Communist Party – 50,000 dollars
  • The Chilean Socialist Party – 50,000 dollars
  • The Workers’ Party of Jamaica – 50,000 dollars
  • The Chilean Workers’ and Peasants’ Party (MAPU) – 40,000 dollars
  • The Maltese Communist Party – 40,000 dollars
  • The San Marino Communist Party – 40,000 dollars
  • the Guadaloupe Communist Party – 35,000 dollars
  • The Association of Egyptian Patriots Abroad – 30,000 dollars
  • The Tunisian Communist Party – 20,000 dollars
  • The Saudi Arabian Communist Party – 20,000 dollars
  • The Lesotho Communist Party – 10,000 dollars

2. Transfer of these funds is entrusted to the KGB.

SECRETARY OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE

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[pages four and five are an Order issued by the USSR Council of Ministers in response to a request from Frelimo (the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique)]

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NOTES

Comparison with a similar list compiled 12 years earlier (8 January 1969*, Pb 111/162) shows more recipients, a change in their ranking (e.g., Finland), and the disappearance of some parties and organisations.

In 1969, for instance, two Italian political parties — the PCI or Communist Party, and the Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity — were to receive between them a total of at least 4.4 million dollars.

A 1983 document (18 January 1983*, Pb 94/52) shows that direct subsidies to the PCI had been replaced by indirect subventions under the guise of trade.

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GENERAL

1. Notes by translator and editor are bracketed, thus [ ];
2. text written by hand is indicated in italic script;
3. when a handwritten phrase, figure or word has been inserted in a previously typed document this is indicated by underlined italic script.

Translation & Annotation, John Crowfoot

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