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ső XeAeN2 6 for October COMMUNISM IN IS RAED. Despite the fact, that the Soviets officially are taking a: more end more openly enti-jewish line, they do not negiect to tyy to penetrate and gain for their cause the State of Israele This pewtration is twofold : political-religious, in the hope of one day gaining decisive influence in the country or ut least to keep it nentrul in case of 4 gonfilict 3 direct action penetra= +t on with the aim at creating bases for Soviet espionnage in the country. In dispetecas of the past, wheu we hinted at this denger, we had pointed out the organizations which were backing the Soviet dive in Fussia, especially in te training and educution of jewish= communist egentse In this report we shali concentrate at giving aj acurate picture of teé őrces working in Israel itself for the aims of the Soviet Union. Mere are three main organizations of that nature 8 the MAPAM end its subsidiary organizations 3 the Mifligat Komu-~ nistit Israelit or MKI ; finally the Russian Palestine Society and its bmanches, The most important and most dangerous - ut least till now - of these organizations is the Henni-Socialist Party, MAPAM. Its idealistic members where at the origin of the Kibbuzim Moves ment, those coliective fam settlements which first started Pales= tine in the land movement of the Jews. During the Polestinian Wary, the private Armyof Mapem, the Pulmach, guined vast prestige for its courage. It recruits its followers mostly from the recent immigrants from Poland and Russia, and from the Marxist Workers Yuth Movement Hanoar Huowed, Paimach has recently been dissolved, its forces introfucedinto the Israeli Army, which had as advan= tage to dissolve it as a single dangerous unit, but as disaduan= tage, that now membex of Pulmach continue their destructive work within the Army. The efforts of the Party to combine Zionism with Communism hed b lead to a crisis between both doctrines, since Russia was taking en increasingly enti=zionist line. In February of this year the crisis came, Rebelling against the Pro-Communist leadig trio of the party - Dr, neh, Riftin and party Secretary Shmeha Flapen - two members of Parliament left the group of Mar pmm , namely the Vice President of Knesset Mrs. Chana Lamdan end David Lifshitz. These two represented the moderate wing on Mapam, called Achduth Awodeh, neni ek fully Communist wing called Hashomer Hazair, or gmumgmgm the Young Guard. fhe secession of the Achduth Awodah leaders was followed i | +
