EASTERN EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79B00864A000800010106-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 31, 2006
• Sequence Number: 106
• Publication Date: February 15, 1968
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release Akf60'3J~1 - 4A0008000101067,6.
I
EASTERN EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCER
1.5 February 1968
Approved For Release 200619I O Rj l DP79B00864A0p0800010106-6
 Approved For Release 200b="d
East Germans Again Dun West Berlin Senat
0800010106-6
The East German news agency, ADN, reported on 13 Fe'ruary
that GDR Minister for Posts and Telecommunications Schulze
has again written to the West Berlin Senat demanding payment
for services rendered to West Berlin by the GDR postal
administration. Schulze pointed out that the West Berlin
debt amounted to over 630 million marks (over $150 million,
as of 31 December 1967.
25X1
Schulze also made the pro forma statement that the Senat
bears full responsibility for all consequences arising
from a further refusal to pay.
COMMENT: Schulze?s letter comes hard on the heels of
one by Finance Minister Boehm in which the latter pressed
for payment of 112 million marks which he alleged West
Berlin owes the GDR for collecting road transportation taxes
on vehicles and goods transiting East German territory.
Boehm had sent a similar letter to FRG Finance Minister Strauss25X1
demanding payment from Bonn of 123 million marks. The Wes-
German Foreign Office considers the Boehm letters to be the
opening salvo in a GDR plan to raise highway tolls.
Approved For Release 200g1F,j -RDP79B00864A0008000 0106-6 25X1
 Approved FQF Release 20 j/Oc/ 800010106=G
Poles Strike Cautious Note on Budapest Meeting
After weeks of charging up the propaganda hill with
articles on the momentous import of the forthcoming Budapest
conference, the Poles appear to be tempering their optimism
as the date for the conclave approaches. The 14 February
issue of the non-party daily Zycie Warszawy strikes for the
first time a self-admitted "rea isti-' c" not when it cautioi.s
that "although agreement on basic matters among the vast
majority of parties" gives cause for optimism about the
conference, "nevertheless its complete success will certainly
not be automatic."
COMMENT: Notably, the Poles new realism comes in the
wake of Polish-Rumanian party talks in Warsaw last week, and
on the same day that Bucharest announced that it would attund
the meeting.
Albanian's Report Solidarity Among Marxist-Leninist Splinter
Groups
Kazlmierz Mijal, leader of the pro-Peking "Polish Comrunist
Party," reportedly has met with Jacques Jurquet and Fosco
Dinucci (heads of the French and Italian Chinese oriented
communist parties), according to a 12 February radio Tiranti 25X1
"
broadcast. They met to exchange "ideas" and "experiences
in a demonstration of "militant solidarity and proletarian
internationalism!'
COMMENT: Mijal is directing the activities of his
"Polish Communist Party" from Albania, and while his presence
there is generally accepted as fact, it has not been confirmed.
The failure of this broadcast to indicate that time and
place of the meetings suggests the reference is to consulta-
tions held during Jurquet's and Dinucci's August and September
visits to Albania.
Approved For Release 20061 / R: ]A{RDP79B00864A00g800010106-6