EAST EUROPE BRANCH NOTES

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CIA-RDP79B00864A001400010101-4
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1
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December 16, 2016
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July 20, 2005
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101
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February 15, 1974
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NOTES
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Approved For Release 2005/08/03 : CIA-RDP79B00864AQ91400010101-4 CON 'IDRNT_TXL #15 . RASA' E'UROP9 BRANCT1 NODS 15 Feb. 1974 'CZECHOSLOVAKIA Police i ' n ' i;den't Author Dissident writer Pavel.Iohout was.visited at his. hiome in Prague by two poli.cement.on February 14, but he refused to talk with them. Presumably the police wanted to question Kohout about his statement last week that the literary situation in his country is as bad now as during the Stalin- ist era. Kohout made this comment while defending a similar assessment by West German :author Heinrich B.oell. The regime may feel that it has to take some action in Kohout's case now that it has a fresh Soviet example to consider. I 25X1 25X1 25X1 situation, is more important than laughter. Relief from the regime propaganda is obviously needed in the grey GDR, where over, humor with a good dash of criticism is more important than humor that fails to haul someone over the coals. The journalist takes issue with those who think that a steady cabaret treatment of public issues, such as the Chilean EAST GERMANY Come to the 'Cabaret An East German journalist has tried to set his country- men straight about the essence of. that renowned German institution, the cabaret. He feels that. cabaret artists, writers, and directors have lost sight of the fact that comedy is the indispensable element of their art form. More- domestic subjects for satire are plentiful. 25X1 .CONKIPENT.IA , Approved For Release 2005/08/03 : CIA-RDP79B00864AO01400010101-4