International Organization of Journalists
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International Organization of Journalists was a Soviet bloc front organization
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It was initially portrayed as a place where Western and Eastern Bloc
journalists can meet. It was controlled in Prague by the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party and with many KGB
agents on board was a "long hand" of Moscow.
It was one of dozen large front organizations launched by the Soviet Union in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
Other fronts launched during these years included World Peace Council
, World Federation of Trade Unions
, Women's International Democratic Federation, International Association of Democratic Lawyers
, Christian Peace Conference
, International Federation of Resistance Fighters, World Federation of Scientific Workers, World Federation of Democratic Youth
, World Congress of Doctors, and International Radio and TV Organization.
Ilya Dzhirkvelov, a high-ranking KGB defector, described in his book "Secret servant: my life with the KGB and the Soviet élite" how the KGB attached great importance to the organization.
In 1970 it declared that it had 150,000 members.
Communist front
A Communist front organization is an organization identified to be a front organization under the effective control of a Communist party, the Communist International or other Communist organizations. Lenin originated the idea in his manifesto of 1902, "What Is to Be Done?"...
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It was initially portrayed as a place where Western and Eastern Bloc
Eastern bloc
The term Eastern Bloc or Communist Bloc refers to the former communist states of Eastern and Central Europe, generally the Soviet Union and the countries of the Warsaw Pact...
journalists can meet. It was controlled in Prague by the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party and with many KGB
KGB
The KGB was the commonly used acronym for the . It was the national security agency of the Soviet Union from 1954 until 1991, and was the premier internal security, intelligence, and secret police organization during that time.The State Security Agency of the Republic of Belarus currently uses the...
agents on board was a "long hand" of Moscow.
It was one of dozen large front organizations launched by the Soviet Union in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
Other fronts launched during these years included World Peace Council
World Peace Council
The World Peace Council is an international organization that advocates universal disarmament, sovereignty and independence and peaceful co-existence, and campaigns against imperialism, weapons of mass destruction and all forms of discrimination...
, World Federation of Trade Unions
World Federation of Trade Unions
The World Federation of Trade Unions was established in 1945 to replace the International Federation of Trade Unions. Its mission was to bring together trade unions across the world in a single international organization, much like the United Nations...
, Women's International Democratic Federation, International Association of Democratic Lawyers
International Association of Democratic Lawyers
International Association of Democratic Lawyers is an international organization of jurists' associations.-Subsidiaries and affiliated organizations:Local:* Bangladesh - Democratic Lawyers Association of Bangladesh...
, Christian Peace Conference
Christian Peace Conference
The Christian Peace Conference was a Czech organization founded in 1958 by Josef Hromádka, a pastor who had spent the war years in the USA and moved back to Czechoslovakia when the war ended. Hromádka was a member of the Bureau of the World Peace Council...
, International Federation of Resistance Fighters, World Federation of Scientific Workers, World Federation of Democratic Youth
World Federation of Democratic Youth
The World Federation of Democratic Youth is a progressive youth organization, recognized by the United Nations as an international youth non-governmental organization. WFDY describes itself as an "anti-imperialist, left-wing" organisation...
, World Congress of Doctors, and International Radio and TV Organization.
Ilya Dzhirkvelov, a high-ranking KGB defector, described in his book "Secret servant: my life with the KGB and the Soviet élite" how the KGB attached great importance to the organization.
In 1970 it declared that it had 150,000 members.
See also
- Active measuresActive measuresActive Measures were a form of political warfare conducted by the Soviet security services to influence the course of world events, "in addition to collecting intelligence and producing politically correct assessment of it". Active measures ranged "from media manipulations to special actions...
- Russian influence operations
- Soviet-run peace movements in the West