Communist administrators that endlessly pack Paris, oddly (12)

I believe the answer is:

apparatchiks

'communist administrators' is the definition.
(term for Soviet bureaucrats)

'that endlessly pack paris oddly' is the wordplay.
'endlessly' means to remove the last letter.
'oddly' indicates anagramming the letters.
'that' with its last letter taken away is 'tha'.
'tha'+'pack'+'paris'='thapackparis'
'thapackparis' is an anagram of 'APPARATCHIKS'.

(Another definition for apparatchiks that I've seen is " party officials".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.

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