[1] In 1970, Reader's Digest suggested that the PCR was contributing to fourteen groups involved in revolutionary guerrilla activities, some of which were Communist in ideology and receiving arms from the Soviet Union.
The front cover showed a graphic photo of 27 Black Rhodesians it claimed were "massacred by WCC-financed terrorists in Eastern Rhodesia in December 1976."
Groups that benefitted from PCR's financial support included National Union for the Total Independence of Angola, People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola, Liberation Front of Mozambique, South West Africa People’s Organisation, Patriotic Front of Zimbabwe, African National Congress, and Pan Africanist Congress of Azania.
[citation needed] The council has been described by Bat Ye'or as taking anti-Zionist positions in connection with its criticisms of Israeli policy.
She believed the Council had focused disproportionately on activities and publications criticizing Israel in comparison to other human rights issues.