CIA study (c. 1964): A world-wide Chinese communist propaganda operation directed against Brazil
Undated CIA study (c. mid-1964) of a worldwide Chinese Communist propaganda campaign protesting Brazil's April 1964 arrest of nine Chinese trade and news officials. Appendices list Chinese organisations and foreign groups that sent messages; Indonesian entries include the Chinese women's federation's message to the Cen
CIA directories, February 1957: International communist-front organizations (WIDF section)
CIA compilation of reference data (February 1957, data to 1 October 1956) on international communist-front organisations and friendship societies, including the Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF). The WIDF directory lists headquarters, publications, executive officers and national affiliates. Under Indo
CIA study, September 1958: The international communist fronts in 1958
CIA/US government study (September 1958) surveying the activities of the international Communist fronts (World Peace Council, Afro-Asian Solidarity Council, WFDY/IUS, WIDF, WFTU and others) in 1958. Chapter IV covers WIDF's Fourth Congress (Vienna, 1-5 June 1958) and secretariat. Gerwani appears only briefly: Suharti (
JPRS 1963: Parjani Pradono criticises the WIDF programme (Moscow World Congress of Women)
Page from a US JPRS volume (Translations on the People's Republic of China, Oct-Nov 1963) summarising Chinese press reports on the June 1963 WIDF World Congress of Women in Moscow. Indonesian women's leader Parjani Pradono is quoted calling the WIDF programme 'devoid of revolutionary essence' and describing the Indones
CIA Bi-Weekly Propaganda Guidance, 15 July 1963: WIDF Moscow World Congress of Women
CIA Bi-Weekly Propaganda Guidance, 15 July 1963, on the Sino-Soviet clash at the WIDF Moscow World Congress of Women (June 1963). It quotes the Indonesian press of 9 July, per NCNA, carrying a statement by Maasje Siwi, general secretary of GERWANI, condemning the undemocratic handling of the congress and saying Gerwani