SOVIET UNION EASTERN EUROPE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00865A001300140001-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 9
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 16, 2005
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: July 7, 1975
• Content Type: NOTES

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This publication is prepared for regional specialists in the Washington com-
munity by the USSR - Eastern Europe Division, Office of Current Intel-
ligence, with occasional contributions from other offices within the
Directorate of Intelligence. Comments and queries are welcome. They should
be directed to the authors of the individual articles.
July 7, 1975
Continuing Impasse on Documents for
European Communist Conference . . . . . . . . 4
Soviet Union - Singapore
Joint Fishing Venture . . . . . . . . . . . 7
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Continuing Impasse on Documents for
European Communist Con erence
Another "sharp division" of opinion marked
last week's meeting in East Berlin of the working
group that is drafting documents for the confer-
the
meeting had left the Soviet, East German, an
Danish parties at odds with the Yugoslav, Italian,
French, Romanian, and Spanish contingents. The
five independent parties adamantly oppose any
wording in the proposed documents that could later
be used to bind individual parties to joint actions
under Soviet direction. If the French party,
has joined those opposing the o-
viets, the tide is running against Moscow.
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sides--including the Soviets--want to reconcile
differences. He said that the Soviets continue
to push "unacceptable issues" mainly as a bargain-
ing tactic in the protracted preparations, which
he end of the year.
the Yugoslavs
believe Moscow will make further compromises on
the subject of binding documents to gain broader
attendance at a European meeting.
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Belgrade's media have been silent thus far
on the results in East Berlin, suggesting that the
Yugoslavs do not at this time want to make a public
issue over the differences. Since the Berlin
session, however, Belgrade has criticized both the
Czechoslovaks and the Soviets for pushing their
program in other forums. The Yugoslavs have taken
particular aim at prominent Soviet party officials
Mikhail Suslov and Boris Ponomarev for using the
occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Comintern's
Seventh Congress to attack the Chinese and to call
for "monolithic" unity of all Communist parties.
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Soviet Union - Singapore Joint Fishing Venture
The Soviet Union and Singapore established a
$12-million joint commercial fishing venture last
month. Participation in the new company, Marisco,
will allow the Soviets to expand operations in the
western Pacific and eastern Indian Ocean where So-
viet fishing has been minimal.
Marisco will supply fish and other seafood
products to Singapore and other markets. Singa-
pore also will serve as a bunkering and ship-
repair facility for Soviet fishing ships. The So-
viets approached Indonesia and the Philippines to
set up facilities for ship repair, but Manila re-
buffed the offer, and Indonesia's decision is pend-
ing.
Joint venture schemes have been of major im-
portance in the expansion of Soviet fishing opera-
tions; at least seven have been established to
date. Moscow not only acquires use of much-needed
port facilities and the right to fish in coastal
waters of other countries, but also has a ready
market for its fish products. Moreover, the USSR
will be able to commit a part of its oversupply of
fishing support ships to the joint-venture fleet
as an element of its contribution to the new company.
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