EASTERN EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79B00864A000800010138-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 17, 2010
• Sequence Number: 138
• Publication Date: January 8, 1968
• Content Type: REPORT

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5 EASTERN EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCER OCI #0678/68
8 January 1961,
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Yugoslav President Tito left for Afghanistan on 6 January
on the first leg of a tour which will take him to Pakistar..
India, Cambodia, Ethiopia and Egypt.
COMMENT: In addition to trumpeting the benefits of
nonalignment, Tito is expected to discuss the Middle East
situation with each of his hosts. The trip will end with
another round of Tito-Nasir talks in Cairo.
Yugoslav Premier to Visit Italy and the Vatican
Premier Mika Spiljak will start an official visit to 25X1
Italy on 8 January to be followed by a call on Pope Paul AI.
The premier will be accompanied by Foreign Minister Nikezic.
COMMENT: The Yugoslavs probably will discuss Italian
help in reaching a trade agreement with the Common Market.
Belgrade has been alarmed by Italy's recent tariff increases
which closed an important market to exports of Yugoslavia's
beef and veal.
The report concerning Spiljak's proposed audience with
the Pope is unconfirmed. If it is true, he will be the
first high-ranking Yugoslav official to be received by a
Pope since the war. Yugoslav-Vatican relations have been
improving steadily for several years, the last high point
being the signing of an agreement in June 1966 to exchange
permanent representatives.
Bulgarian Tourist Official to Visit US
One of Bulgaria's highest tourist officials, Stefan
Nedelchev, will participate in an Air France sponsored
tour of major U.S. cities. The tour, designed to promote
tourist interest in Eastern Europe and the USSR through
contact with U.S. travel agents, is expected to last 15 df.ys.
COMMENT: Nedelchev's participation underscores Sofiv's
desire to seek more meaningful contacts outside the Communist
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bloc, and emphasizes Sofia's drive to stimulate Western
tourism as a means to ease the country's balance of payments
deficit, to aid growing French-Bulgarian detente, and to
improve relations with Washington.
International Youth Congress Planned for West Berlin
West Berlin papers of 4 January reported that the
Frankfurt headquarters of the left-wing student organization
SDS has announced that a congress of European student organi-
zations will be held in West Berlin February 17-18. Accord-
ing to the SDS statement, the congress will be sponsorea
by student groups from seven West European countries, and
will be devoted to protesting US Vietnam policy.
The SDS predicted that 10,000 youths will attend the
congress, including representatives from Czechoslovakia,
Poland, Yugoslavia, East Germany, and perhaps Cuba. The
program for the congress reportedly includes a mass rally
at the Sport Palace, to be addressed by Jean Paul Sartre,
Peter Weiss, and H. Rap Brown.
The US Mission in Berlin reported that East German
newspapers had already reported on 28 December that the
"Secretariat of the International Vietnam Conference,
West Berlin 1968" was planning a meeting in West Berlin
for February. The East German reports stated that repre-
sentatives from France, Belgium, Italy, Holland, the UK,
and, the FRG had accepted invitations.
The Mission add
ed th
at the West Berlin Senat has
announced that the S
DS ha
s not requested facilities for the 25X1
Congress in the Spor
t Pal
ace or in any other large hall 25X1
controlled by the Senat.
In addition, the two largest halls
in Berlin are booked solid until March.
Reported Differences Between Hoxha and Shehu
Albanian Party First Secretary Enver Hoxha and Premier
Mehmet Shehu are at odds over Tirana's alliance with Peking.
Hoxha is said to favor a policy
similar to that of Rumania--tight control by the government
and police internally and pragmatic flexibility toward the
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West and East externally. Shehu,on the other hand, is
said to favor uncritical adoption of Chinese practices
internally and whole-hearted support of Communist China
externally.
Albania's basic alignment.
with China., moreover, remains unchanged. It is an
accepted fact, however, that numerous sectors of the
Albanian population are dissatisfied with the country's
Chinese alliance and it is likely that such feelings can
still be found in some party and government circles.
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Ulbricht Comments Again on West German Policy
East German boss Walter Ulbricht again blasted West
Germany on 6 January, but apparently dropped the East
German demand that European security arrangements must no,
be negotiated until after Bonn concludes a non-use of force
treaty with Pankow. Ulbricht, speaking at the annual GDR
reception for foreign diplomats, stated it will be possible
to speak of a new policy only when Bonn recognizes existing
frontiers, renounces its sole representation claim, desists 25X1
from efforts to gain nuclear weapons, recognizes West BerLin
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Munich agreement null and void ab initio.
COMMENT: Because Ulbricht was addressing his remarks
to the diplomatic representatives of the Eastern European
nations, he may have side-stepped the issue of possible
bilateral renunciation of force agreements between Bonn and
these nations for diplomatic reasons. Future speeches
and articles in the party press should indicate whether
the East Germans have put aside their oft-voiced demand
that European security arrangements are contingent on a
direct :East-West German treaty.
Ulbricht's comment on an "independent political entUR,.y?" 25X1
of West Berlin suggests that the GDR has shelved, at leas=_
temporarily, the claim that West Berlin legally belongs to
the GDR.
NOTE: THE VIEWS EXPRESSED ABOVE REPRESENT
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