EASTERN EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79B00864A000800010052-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 1, 2008
• Sequence Number: 52
• Publication Date: April 25, 1968
• Content Type: REPORT

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EASTERN EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCER
25 April 1968
Zhivkov Tip Toes Through Czechoslovakia
Unaccustomed as he is to a liberal atmosphere, Bulgarian
party :Leader and Premier Todor Zhivkov is receiving what mu:~t
be an eye-opening tour in Czechoslovakia.
He is traveling with a new liberal presidium member,
I~rantisek Kriegel, who is probably giving Zhivkov an earful
on the proper approach to socialism. The current Czecho-
slovak press must also be unsettling for Zhivkov as it
calls in varying degrees for separation of party and state,
the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact, and diplomatic relation:
with West Germany.
Zhivkov received a preview of the new conditions in
Czechoslovakia when he was interviewed by a Czechoslovak
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reporter prior to his departure for Prague. The journalist
had 1;he audacity to tell Zhivkov that he did not like the
fact that the Bulgarian press did not pay sufficient at-
tention to the events in Czechoslovakia. Zhivkov dis-
agreE~d but admitted that certain Czechoslovak press articles
whose "authors were not writing in the spirit of socialism
and proletarian internationalism" were not reprinted in
t&~e Bulgarian press.
Zhivkov is reputed to be a shrewd politician and has
probably learned some valrzable lessons from the Czechoslovak
experience which he could a 1 in Bul arian sh i-
mate for change develop.
Warsaw Pact Commander In Prague
Continuing his tour of Warsaw Pact states, Soviet Marshal
Ivan Yakubovskiy, commander-in-chief of the Pact forces,
arrived in Czechoslovakia on 24 April. Yakubovskiy has
previously visited Poland, East Germany, and Bulgaria during
his current trip. Yakubovskiy ostensibly visited Prague
to "introduce himself...to the newly elected representatives"
of Czechoslovakia, but undoubtedly will discuss military
and political matters. The sequence of Yakubovskiy's
itinerary--Warsaw-East Berlin-Sofia-Prague--suggests again
that Moscow no loner re~ar~l~ prague as one of the "dependables."
High-Ranking Yugoslav May Become Ambassador to West Germany
VladimiY~ Popovic, the chief of Tito's personal office,
is under consideration for a ointment as ugoslav ambassador-
in Bonin Popovic, who
is a press i.um mem er and possesses considerable diplomatic
experience, apparently is a recent candidate for the post.
Others under consideration include career diplomats Nikola
Milicevic, Zvonko Perisic and Joze Brilej, vice president
of the Slovenian Republic Assembly. Although the Bann post
will k~e an important one it would not necessaril represent
a promotion for Po ovic.
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Albanian Premier Criticizes, the Ministry of Education and
ZuTi-ur e
Premier Shehu's broadside against the Ministry of
Education and Culture may be a prelude to new measures by
the regime to eliminate suspected centers of opposition
among the country's intellectuals.
In a recent report to the Albanian Workers Party
Central Committee, Premier Shehu attacked the Ministry
of Education and Culture for damaging neglect--"whicls must
stop immediately"--and urged it to tackle the questions
confronting art, culture and education. Reflecting Tirana's
uneasiness over the turmoil in Prague and Warsaw, Shehu
warned that the recent events in Czechoslovakia and Poland
wou:Lcl not be repeated in Albania. He also set guide-Line=
far country-wide discussions of the problems facing Al-
bania's educational system,
Polish Ambassador in London Kicks Out His Hardliners
The Polish ambassador in London has successfully countered
a campaign conducted by his subordinates to relieve him of
his party membership.
Following the adoption of a motion to expel him from
the party at a meeting of the Embassy`s party organization,
Ambassador Jerzy Morawski returned to Warsaw on 16 April.
Morawski, a "revisionist" former party secretary ousted
in late 1959, has nevertheless remained on good personal
terms with Gomulka. It is almost certain that the party
leader himself decided to call a halt to the incipient
hardline move against Morawski, probably viewing it as a
potentially serious precedent f'or other attacks on his
erstwhile supporters.
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t;~omulka's ability to take this action, together with
recent government appointments, suggests that while Moczar
may be in cYiarge of the purges, the party boss can still
set limits to the cam ai n when it affects his basic
interests.
NOTE: THE VIEWS EXPRESSED ABOVE REPRESENT
ONLY THE ANALYSIS OF THE EE DIVISION
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