EASTERN EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79B00864A000800010114-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 14, 2010
• Sequence Number: 114
• Publication Date: January 1, 1968
• Content Type: REPORT

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Polish Teenager Apologizes for Attache Incident
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A teenage youth claiming to be the brother of one of the
soldiers who detained US attache Metzger near a military
installation last month risked coming to the US Embassy in
Warsaw on 2 February to apologize for his brother's role it
the incident. The youth said that his brother was aware that
Metzger's companion on the trip to Bydgoszcz, Canadian attache
Jefferson, was the one seen taking photographs, and that
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Metzger himself "was not guilty." The youth's brother allegedly
wished to assure the Embassy that he was not responsible for 25X1
the "falsehoods" that have appeared in Poland concerning the
COMMENT: The youth's risky trip to the Embassy may have
been prompted by the voluminous regime propaganda on the
incident, which included detailed alleged depositions against
Metzger by the arresting soldiers.
Poles Embarrassed About Scanlan Incident
The Poles appear to be considerably more sanguine about;
the recent incident in Poznan involving the wife of the US
consular officer there, John Scanlan, than about the affair
of expelled US attache Metzger.
Mrs. Scanlan was apprehended at gunpoint on 26 January
by an overzealous soldier after she had inadvertently parked
near a military installation in Poznan. She was released
shortly thereafter, after she had indentified herself to the
soldier's superior officer.
The US Embassy in Warsaw, however, formally protested
against the incident the next day to Polish Foreign Ministry
officials, who downplayed the matter. On 3 February, Foreign
Ministry spokesman Sieradzki added that "further inquiry"
had. revealed the soldier's actions to have been "rude" and that
the US "need not worry nts would recur.
COMMENT: The Embassy is inclined to view the Poznan
incident as an isolated reaction by an individual soldier t)
the regime's artificially whipped up anti-US campaign arising
from the Meztger affair. The State Department, however, tends
to view the incident more seriously in the light of deteriorated
Polish-US relations, and reserves the right to carry its prt)test
to "higher levels."
Status of Expired Rumanian-Soviet Friendship Treaty Still. ii
Neither Bucharest nor Moscow referred to the expiratio;i
of the treaty's initial 20-year term on 4 February or to Lt;-;
"renewal" in their restrained celebration of the anniversary.
The US Embassy in Moscow argues that by failing to note the
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treaty's expiration date, Moscow's congratulatory message t()
the Rumanians bore the implication that the treaty is to be
automatically extended for a period of 5-years rather than
renegotiated. The Embassy suggests that this implication iw
supported by the statement in the Soviet message saying tha'
the treaty "serves well" its purposes. The Embassy failed io
note, however, that the passage "serves well" was immediat;ey
preceded by "this treaty, based on the principles of socialist
internationalism, was an important factor in the developmenT
of Soviet-Rumanian relations."
In Rumania, speeches and articles commemorating the treaty
anniversary dwelled almost entirely on bilateral relations.
Nowhere was there any mention of the Warsaw Pact or CEMA,
nor did the Rumanians anywhere refer to socialist internationalism.
Meanwhile, the French Ambassador in Bucharest reportshat25X1
a Rumanian delegation currently is in Moscow continuing
negotiations reportedly started in Bucharest last month by 25X1
COMMENT: Rumania's insistence on language compatible
with its independence has delayed renewal of its bilateral
friendship treaties not only with Moscow but also with Sofia
and Budapest. The Rumanians evidently are still interested
in renegotiating renewals, but only if a compromise suitable
to them can be achieved. If this compromise cannot be reached,
the treaties presumably will be automatically extended for a
period of 5-years, at the end of which the negotiating climate
might be much improved.
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