Zibrin. are coming from such cities as Chicago. New York. and Cleveland. it is certain that the United States of America is a part of that Communist underground. With this action the Communists try to make it appear that since it is directed towards the refugees. it is originated by the refugees themselves. The addresses of the recipients are precise. showing that they are being obtained from a central planning spot within that Communist underground. a spot which undoubtedly has most reliable information. These letters are reaching even the United States Army labor battalions. which. it is known. are recruited from the nationals of the satellite states. Such labor units are in Kaiserslautern. Ingostadt. and elsewhere. but these letters are reaching the refugees also in their private homes and in the refugee camps. CI- 644 . The aim of this mass movement is first. to create interest in the minds of the exiles for a return home. second. to indicate how to register for a return home by simultaneously promising loyalty to the Reds. The Communists evidently are capitalizing on the prolonged stay of the refugees in Germany. Austria. and Italy due to the slowness of their processing in reaching America and other overseas countries. How this clandestine Communist campaign affected the Czech and Slovak refugees up to now is seen from the newest report which I received according to which. during the first half of June from Germany alone. returned to Communist Czechoslovakia 37 refugees. 36 Czechs and 1 Slovak. The number of those who already returned is perhaps not appalling. But if we imagine that every fugitive who returned to Communistoppressed Czechoslovakia is a resounding moral and political victory for communism. and by the same token a great defeat for ourselvesthen we have to think what to do about it. Every refugee who returns to Communist Czechoslovakia is given the platform of a press conference to attack the West. particularly America. and to refute the hopes of the oppressed inside the Soviet states for a liberation. Thus. the effects of millions of dollars which we poured into the Voice of America program and other psychological warfare media to widen the gap between the Red masters and their oppressed victims are canceled out by the flow of repentent and redefected refugees who are turned into the most successful tool of Communist propaganda in the cold war. The resistance movements behind the Iron Curtain and the morale of all our potential friends there are first to suffer. Their hope for ultimate release and liberation from the greatest prison of all ages becomes dim. because their potential liberators are discredited. . Why? Caught between miserable living conditions in the camps and nearhopeless prospects to reach America or other overseas countries. and between temptations of a sweet Communist campaign for a return home. many refugees gamble on the promises of Communist blandishments and are returning home. To make this return more attractive. the President of Communist Czechoslovakia. Antonin Zapotocky. issued on May 9. 1955. an amnesty. while on June 2. 1955. a special reception committee formed in Prague. headed by Dr. Miroslav Klinger and assisted by practically all political parties in Czechoslovakia. to help the redefected fugitives. In addition. the Communist broadcast is daily asking the refugees to return without fear. and in Germany a repatriation commission is becoming very active. To extend this movement for return home to all parts of the free world. and to make it known to all former Czechoslovak citizens. the Communist embassies are placing ads in the newspapers of the countries to which they were accredited. and this explains why last- week -all Washington and other American newspapers carried such ads to encourage refugees here to return to tha homeland. In this respect It was unfortunate when some spokesmen of the Council for Free Czechoslovakia branded this Communist campaign as applying more to "the common man than to political refugees." In our fight against communism the common man and the political refugee is of equal value because communism is not concerned about 1 or 2 political refugees but principally about the masses of men. which as we know are composed of common men. Because of this cleverly conducted campaign. Dr. Miroslav Klinger. head of the reception committee in Prague. declared only recently that his committee is working on some 200 new applications for return and that he expects many more to come. Simultaneously with the Czechoslovak Communist campaign for the return of refugees is running a similar campaign for the return of Hungarian. Polish. Ukrainian. and Russian refugees. as seen from an article in the New York Times. In view of this disastrous situation. may I ask whether it is not too late for massive countermeasures to offset this redefection campaign? Shall we let communism have its triumph without even lifting our fingers to save at least part of our tremendous investments in psychological warfare?
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