EAST EUROPE BRANCH NOTES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79B00864A001400010109-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 20, 2005
• Sequence Number: 109
• Publication Date: February 5, 1974
• Content Type: NOTES

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#7 EAST EUROPE BRANCH NOTES I I 4
February
EAST GERMANY
Trade Conference with Westerners Opens
A three-day roundtable conference between Business
International and East German officials concerned with the
promotion of trade opened in East Berlin on February 4.
Orville Freeman, President of Business International, heads
the foreign participants, comprising presidents, vice
presidents, and board members of important US and West
European enterprises. GDR Premier Sindermann told the
group further steps toward detente have a favorable effect
on the expansion of foreign economic activities. He also
said that East Germany plans to expand substantia its
economic relations with non-socialist countries.
POLAND
Good, But Not Good Enough
A National Economic Conference to boost the 1974
development plan commenced yesterday with kickoff speeches
by party boss Gierek and government chief Jaroszewicz.
Addressing a galaxy of industrial leaders, Gierek briefly
extolled the present pace of progress before launching
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into his favorite theme--the improvement of living standards
for the average man. The most important task, he said, was
to promote agricultural efficiency. In a somewhat tougher
vein, Jaroszewicz charged that some enterprises were failing
to meet quotas, producing poor quality goods, using raw
materials haphazardly, and demonstrating little initiative.
He attributed these sins to weak plant leadership-and
poor planning at the administrator's level.
Cultural Agreements
Although Budapest continues to drag its feet on
negotiating a cultural agreement with the US, it may be
laying some of the necessary groundwork. Last fall, the
Hungarians announced the opening of a lavish new Soviet
cultural facility in downtown Budapest, and yesterday the
top party and state leadership visited the building. In a
short speech, Radar noted that the facility had already lived
up to expectations. Soviet Ambassador Pavlov thanked the
Hungarians for their assistance in establishing and running
the building, and claimed that over 200,000 people had
already visited it.
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Meanwhile, the Hungarians apparently are pressing
the Norwegians to negotiate a cultural agreement. The
Norwegians have demurred. F-- I 25X1
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