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| | The [[Senate Internal Security Subcommittee]] (SISS) published a report in 1955 entitled, ''The Communist Party, USA — What It Is — How It Works.''<ref>[http://www.archive.org/texts/flipbook/flippy.php?id=communistpartyof1955unit''The Communist Party, USA — What It Is — How It Works''], Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act, United States Senate, 84th Congress 1st Session, December 21 1955, GPO, Washington D.C., pp. v., 15.</ref> The study intended to differentiate the CPUSA from "[[bona fide]]" political parties after the [[Subversive Activities Control Act]] proscribed into [[law]] the following: | | The [[Senate Internal Security Subcommittee]] (SISS) published a report in 1955 entitled, ''The Communist Party, USA — What It Is — How It Works.''<ref>[http://www.archive.org/texts/flipbook/flippy.php?id=communistpartyof1955unit''The Communist Party, USA — What It Is — How It Works''], Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act, United States Senate, 84th Congress 1st Session, December 21 1955, GPO, Washington D.C., pp. v., 15.</ref> The study intended to differentiate the CPUSA from "[[bona fide]]" political parties after the [[Subversive Activities Control Act]] proscribed into [[law]] the following: |
| | {{Cquote|The Congress finds and declares that the [[Communist Party of the United States]], although purportedly a political party, is in fact an instrumentality of a [[conspiracy]] to overthrow the Government of the United States...the policies and programs of the Communist Party are secretly prescribed for it by the foreign leaders...members of the Communist Party are recruited for indoctrination with respect to its objectives and methods, and are organized, instructed, and disciplined to carry into action slavishly the assignments given them....Its role as the agency of a hostile foreign power renders its existence a clear present and continuing danger to the security of the United States. It is the means whereby individuals are seduced into the service of the world Communist movement, trained to do its bidding, and directed and controlled in the conspiratorial performance of their [[revolution]]ary services.<ref>[http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode50/usc_sec_50_00000841----000-.html Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950], U.S. Code Title 50 Chapter 23 Subchapter IV Sec. 841.</ref>}} | | {{Cquote|The Congress finds and declares that the [[Communist Party of the United States]], although purportedly a political party, is in fact an instrumentality of a [[conspiracy]] to overthrow the Government of the United States...the policies and programs of the Communist Party are secretly prescribed for it by the foreign leaders...members of the Communist Party are recruited for indoctrination with respect to its objectives and methods, and are organized, instructed, and disciplined to carry into action slavishly the assignments given them....Its role as the agency of a hostile foreign power renders its existence a clear present and continuing danger to the security of the United States. It is the means whereby individuals are seduced into the service of the world Communist movement, trained to do its bidding, and directed and controlled in the conspiratorial performance of their [[revolution]]ary services.<ref>[http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode50/usc_sec_50_00000841----000-.html Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950], U.S. Code Title 50 Chapter 23 Subchapter IV Sec. 841.</ref>}} |
| − | Without going into detailed analysis of Communist activity in the labor movement, among [[African-American]]s, women, youth, foreign language groups, or in [[front organization]]s the SISS report described a fundamental CPUSA strategy of [[infiltration]] and [[subversion]] using divisiveness: | + | Without going into detailed analysis of Communist activity in the labor movement, among [[African-American]]s, women, youth, foreign language groups, or in [[Communist front|front organization]]s the SISS report described a fundamental CPUSA strategy of [[infiltration]] and [[subversion]] using divisiveness: |
| | {{Cquote|it thrives upon promoting clashes: Between employer and employee, landlord and tenant, white and Negro, native-born and foreigner, Catholic, Protestant and Jew; between the American people and their Government, and within every non-Communist organization.}} | | {{Cquote|it thrives upon promoting clashes: Between employer and employee, landlord and tenant, white and Negro, native-born and foreigner, Catholic, Protestant and Jew; between the American people and their Government, and within every non-Communist organization.}} |
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