CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 23, 2004
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: June 8, 1956
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. WIDESPREAD ANTI-REGIME STUDENT DEMONSTRATIONS
IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA
3. POLISH WRITERS SAY CRITICISM IN POLAND TOOK ANTI-
RUSSIAN. TURN
4. YUGOSLAV-SOVIET AGREEMENT TO INCREASE TRADE
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THE ARAB-ISRAELI SITUATION
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1. WIDESPREAD ANTI-REGIME STUDENT DEMONSTRATIONS
IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA
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Protest meetings and parades held last
month by university students in several
Czechoslovak cities seem to have con-
fronted the regime with its boldest and
most extensive open opposition since the
Pilsen currency riots of 1953. The tim-
ing of demonstrations and demands for
greater political and cultural freedom by
students in Prague, Bratislava, Pilsen,
Banska Bystrica and other centers indicates that the protest
movement was well organized and co-ordinated.. Prague
students, for example, apparently distributed leaflets among
,factory workers in order to publicize their demands, and
employed both aircraft and motorcycle couriers in order to
maintain contact with colleagues in other areas of the coun-
try.
The regime was caught off guard by the
extent of the student activities and its lack of control over the
country's youth; the police did not act until the end of May,
when about 30 of the student leaders reportedly were arrested--
although this action has since been denied by Premier Siroky.
The crisis has apparently been brought under control, but of-
ficial statements remain equivocal, carefully attempting to
distinguish between "honest" student complaints and discon-
tent inspired by "bourgeois provocateurs."
Siroky's statements concerning the "enor-
mous activity of imperialist agents" in Czechoslovakia may
foreshadow an attempt to exonerate the students and blame the
incidents on foreign agents.
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3. POLISH WRITERS SAY CRITICISM IN POLAND TOOK
ANTI- RUSSIAN TIEN
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of the party leadership in .Poland had
become so anti-Russian that one
r"would have thought the critics were Americans," C
any of the critics themselves
were alarmed by the pace of developments and feared that
if it continued, a riot like that of 17 June 1953 in Berlin
would occur. it was felt that, with the USSR
.Poland's doors ep, ac ion must be taken gradually.
Comment Several Poles in official positions have
recently stressed to Western observers
their determination to achieve increased internal freedom
and a measure of independence within the framework of their
alliance with the USSR.
Differences among Polish leaders about
the extent to which criticism should be permitted have undoubt-
edly made it more difficult for the regime to control the criti-
cism.
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4. YUGOSLAV-SOVIET AGREEMENT TO INCREASE TRADE
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ment, other Soviet exports will be oil, aluminum and
machinery, in exchange for Yugoslav steel, agricultural
products, textiles and footwear.
The protocol signed in Belgrade on
6 June calls for an expansion of
$20,000,000 each way in this years
Yugoslav-Soviet trade. A Yugoslav
request for 100,000 tons of wheat
from the USSR presumably accounts
for slightly less than half of the in-
crease. According to the announce-
With this agreement, Yugoslav-Soviet
trade is scheduled to amount to $55,000,000 each way, which
is slightly more than Yugoslavia's trade with China and all
the Satellites. About one third of Yugoslavia's total scheduled
trade will be with theSino-Soviet bloc. (Concurred in by ORR)
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THE ARAB-ISRAELI SITUATION
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Jordan Arab Legion sources charged that
Israeli soldiers crossed into Jordanian territory on 6 June at
Habla in the Qalgiliya area. Two Israelis were seriously wounded
in the clash. An Egyptian military spokesman said that Israeli
armored cars opened fire on Egyptian territory at the Gaza strip.
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