Front organization

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Front organization is an American and English term for (political) organizations that hide their true goals.

The word part "front" goes back to the Latin frons = forehead through which one cannot see through, accordingly front in American a person or group whose work or outward appearance serves to hide their true goals, in English an organization etc. that serves as cover for non-presentable activities.

The term was mainly used during the Cold War to refer to a number of organizations where there was more or less clear evidence that they were directed by the International Department of the Central Committee of the CPSU . Examples are the World Trade Union Confederation , the World Peace Council , the World Federation of Democratic Youth , the International Student Union , and the International Federation of Resistance Fighters .

A classic case of a different front organization was Angkar padevat (German: revolutionary organization), behind which the Communist Party of Kampuchea was hiding.

The term was later applied to cover organizations of the CIA as well as the Scientologists or the Mun sect .

It is needed today for all organizations that do not openly reveal their direction, their backers or their funding. This is what distinguishes them from pre-organization organizations , whose proximity to a party is no secret.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Rudzio : The erosion of demarcation. Springer-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-322-83787-5 , p. 29 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  2. ↑ Michael Ploetz, Hans-Peter Müller: Remote-controlled peace movement ?: GDR and USSR in the fight against the NATO double resolution, p. 288
  3. ^ Richard F. Staar: USSR Foreign Policies After Détente. Hoover Press, 2013, ISBN 978-0-817-98593-6 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  4. ^ A b Michael Hochgeschwender : Freedom on the offensive ?. Walter de Gruyter, 1998, ISBN 978-3-486-59525-3 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  5. ^ Richard F. Staar: USSR Foreign Policies After Détente. Hoover Press, 2013, ISBN 978-0-817-98593-6 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  6. ^ Richard F. Staar: USSR Foreign Policies After Détente. Hoover Press, 2013, ISBN 978-0-817-98593-6 ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  7. ↑ Facts about international Communist front organizations (1958) pp. 85–86
  8. ↑ Daniel Bultmann: Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge: The creation of the perfect socialist . Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2017, ISBN 978-3-506-78692-0 , p. 10.