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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-00915R001000380006-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 17, 1998
• Sequence Number: 6
• Content Type: REPORT

WFDY and Festival
propaganda reflect Soviet determination to hold
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tudent opposition to the Festival developing in early 1959 in sympathy with
Austrian youth and student organizations' protests and boycott, the Festival's
ermanent Commission (PC) in Vienna and the WDY have made a herculean effort
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