EAST EUROPE BRANCH NOTES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79B00864A001400010093-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 20, 2005
• Sequence Number: 93
• Publication Date: February 28, 1974
• Content Type: NOTES

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EAST ETJ OPE E ,NC1i NOTES
1974
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CZECHOSLOVAKIA
Protest. Against t'h'e' :Sejna: Intery'ieWs
Prague has. uttered a cry of pain over the recent
Austrian TV interview with ex-General Jan Sejna, who defected
from Czechoslovakia in 1968. In the interview,.as in a recent
Austrian magazine article, Sejna contended that the Warsaw
Pact. states had various.contingency plans for invading
Austria and Yugoslavia. Austrian Defense Minister Luetgendorf
apparently participated in the same interview program.
Prague radio says that Czechoslovakia has been trying to
develop,good relations with Austria, but that Vienna some-
times spoils these 'efforts. by. 'creatig. tensions. Pra:gue. then
notes it is ."not .surprised'. that Austrian TV has lent itself 25X1
to an attempt to torpedo the European secur.ity and force
reduction ta.lks..because the .TV leadership 'has people in .cc.p;t.act
with "the' most reactionary right-wing oriented fdr',ces" in the
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When Andrzej We.rb .an, a, veteran C'a un t theox,etici.an,
was elevated to. the post 'of parity s'ec.r.etary on F.e'br ary: 15,
he was thought to be slated for .he job of top 'party savant
on ideology, Wasting no time, the -party politburo. on
February' 27 announced that .Werbl.an had been named, director
of the newly, .founded 1nst t ite of Basic Problems. of Marxism,
Len.ini'sm. Party loyalists will now read Werblan `care,full to
catch the nuances of rescr.i .ed ortho.do
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