Investigation of Communist Activities in Seattle, Wash., Area, Hearings, Part 1United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities
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Investigation of Communist Activities in Seattle, Wash., Area, Hearings, Part 1
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities
Communism -- Washington (State) -- Seattle
Which are the most important methods of communication it is
essential to foresee? It is essentially important to have a
well-laid out live communication. Live communication is kept going
by the help of the system of so-called appearing or reporting
places. What is a reporting point. A reporting point is this: the
Party Committee establishes special addresses of flats or other
places where on certain days and at certain times representatives
of the cells and fractions of the mass organizations must appear.
There also representatives of the Party Committees appear. The
representative of the cells and fractions makes reports on what
has happened in the factory, what the cell has done, what it
proposes to do and so on, and the representatives of the Party
Committee, having received the report, advises the cell how it
should act, passes on to it the directions of the higher Party
organs and so on. This system of appearing places must without
fail be established in all Parties without exception, legal and
illegal whilst in the legal Parties a double system of reporting
places must without fail be established--a system of legal and
illegal appearing points. Legal reporting places in the legal
premises of the Party Committee and illegal appearing places in
case the legal premises of the Party Committee are closed, or a
police ambush is sitting there, in order quickly to re-establish
connection with the lower Party cell in another way through the
illegal reporting place. For the latter, appearing points should
therefore be prepared beforehand. In Germany, in Belgium, in
France, Party meetings in cafes were at one time very widespread.
This is a very bad habit because there are always spies in cafes
in countless numbers and it is difficult to get rid of them. It
is necessary to go over more quickly to the establishment of
appearing places in safer localities. If the Party has already
more or less seriously and fundamentally gone over to underground
positions, and the shadowing of leading active Party members has
begun, and Party members are being arrested in the streets, then
it is very important that special signals should be established
for the appearing flats, showing; in the first place, the safety
of the flat, second, showing that exactly those people have
come who were expected and that these comrades who have come
are talking with exactly those comrades whom the observer is
coming to see. In order to show that the reporting places are in
working order, in Russian conditions, for example, a flowerpot
was placed in the window, the comrade came, saw that the flowers
are there, knew that it is safe, and entered. It is necessary to
say that these reception signals were very quickly learned by the
police and that they therefore, when visiting any flat, carefully
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