CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
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Central Intelligence Bulletin
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7 September 1968
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No. 0255/68
7 September 1968
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CONTENTS
USSR-Czechoslovakia: Soviet envoy in Prague monitoring
of normalization. (Page 1)
Vietnam: Situation report. (Page 3)
UN=Czechoslovakia: Several countries are seeking
ways to keep the Czechoslovak issue alive at the UN.
(Page 4)
Communist China: Radical Red Guards are under in-
creasingly heavy attack. (Page 5)
Malaysia-PhilL22ines: Relations are worsening.
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Sweden: National elections this month present a
challenge to the Social Democrats. (Page 8)
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USSR-Czechoslovakia, A high-ranking Soviet of-
ficial arrived in Prague yesterday, presumably to
monitor the progress of Czechoslovakia's "normaliza-
tion."
According to a Western news service, Vasily
Kuznetsov, Soviet First Deputy Minister of Foreign
Affairs and a CPSU central committee member, was
sent as the Kremlin's envoy in response to a request
by the Czechoslovaks. They were said to have asked
for a Soviet emissary with authority to make polit-
ical decisions about the implementation of measures
which would permit the evacuation of troops. De-
spite Prague's wish to expedite a withdrawal, it is
highly unlikely that Moscow has delegated to Kuznetsov
any such discretionary authority,
Shortly after his arrival. Kuznetsov met with
President Svoboda. According to Radio Czechoslovakia
they had an "exchange of views and information,"
language suggesting disagreement over the course of
Prague's efforts. The Soviet envoy's arrival in
the Czechoslovak capital. came amid unconfirmed re-
ports of a meeting of the Czechoslovak central com-
mittee and evidence of Soviet impatience with the
pace and extent of Prague's return to orthodoxy.
Pravda on 6 September said that despite "se-
rious successes" in the Czechoslovak economy, changes
in "political. and public life" were "only in the
initial stages" and that a "correct understanding"
of normalization was still lacking. To achieve
normalization, Prague was advised to expose and
rout "right-wing antisocialist forces" completely,
to end their influence on youth, and to strengthen
the guiding role of the Communist Party in the en-
tire life of the country..
A Bulgarian military paper reportedly stated
yesterday that any expectations that troops of the
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Care "unrealistic." The paper reportedly claimed
that reactionaries and counterrevolutionaries desire
a quick withdrawal so that, they can have "another
swing at it."
in still another apparent effort to accommodate
the Soviets, two non-Communist political organiza-
tions, the Club of Committed Non-Party People and
K-231, an association of rehabilitated political
prisoners, have been banned. The Ministry of Inte-
rior ruled on 5 September that the former association
has the "character of a political organization" and
therefore cannot be accepted. The latter organiza-
tion was described as "superfluous" because the Com-
munist Party - dominated National Front will handle
cases of people wrongly imprisoned.
There has been no significant change in the
disposition of occupying forces in Czechoslovakia.
Preparations appear under way, however, for an air-
lift of some Soviet troops; out of the Prague area.
The US defense attache in his latest report from
Prague stated that there now are an estimated 7,500
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Vietnam:
South Vietnam: The low level of enemy-initiated
military activity throughout the country continues.
Sharp and prolonged ground fighting occurred on
5 and 6 September at two points south and northwest
of Saigon as a result of allied initiatives.
In most of northern I Corps, severe weather
conditions centered in the Da Nang area have sharply
curtailed both allied and Communist military opera-
tions. Heavy rains and high winds almost certainly
will delay and may cancel some enemy offensive plans
in the northern provinces.
North Vietnam: The Communists are keeping up
a steady stream of propaganda on the US elections
and antiwar sentiment in the United States. The
thrust of the message is that the recent nominating
conventions proved nothing and that any US adminis-
tration eventually will have to bow to those forces
opposing the war and seek a political solution. The
latest propaganda pitch along these lines in the
North Vietnamese party paper on 6 September closely
paralleled remarks in Premier Pham Van Dong's Na-
tional Day speech and the Communist presentation at
the Paris talks this week.
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UN-Czechoslovakia: Pressure to keep the Czech-
oslovak issue alive at the UN now is focusing on the
General Assembly.
A number of members, including Canada, Britain,
Brazil, Yugoslavia and Chile, are concerned that. the
UN not appear paralyzed on the matter. Because the
Czechoslovaks would presumably be under Soviet com-
pulsion to repudiate a call for an emergency session
or placing on the agenda of the regular session an
item dealing specifically with the occupation, other
means to deal with the issue are being considered.
A Yugoslav representative at the UN has sug-
gested inscription of an, item which, without naming
Czechoslovakia, would provide an umbrella for dis-
cussion of the situation. He noted that this in-
direct approach must have the broadest support in-
cluding nonaligned countries to avoid its being
interpreted as a "cold .
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Communist China: Radical Red Guards and other
"revolutionary" organizations are under increasingly
heavy attacks, apparently designed to eliminate them
as forces capable of conducting Cultural Revolution.
Local authorities in some areas are vigorously
enforcing a new mandate for restoring order and are
using it to destroy the Red Guard leadership and
terrorize its rank and file. In many areas, those
in authority now are military men who had been per-
sistently attacked by radical Red Guards during the
Cultural Revolution. These former targets now may
feel free to retaliate for the first time.
First-hand reports from Dairen and Canton con-
firm that the crackdown now is going considerably
beyond the bland disciplinary measures called for
in Peking's recent propaganda. Former Red Guards
are being paraded, forced to carry signs labeling
them "counterrevolutionary," and sometimes beaten
and whipped in public. Reports from Canton suggest
that at times a lynch atmosphere exists, in which
"the masses" are incited to carry out executions
themselves. In Canton, army troops. are usually ob-
served to be supervising or participating in such
acts of suppression.
Many older students are being rounded up and
given "job assignments" to mines currently operated
by prisoners and to army-run farms.
So-called "worker propaganda teams," led by
army troops, have been formed in all major cities
to occupy schools and subdue Red Guards. Individ-
ual teams often have more than a thousand partici-
pants. Propaganda statements stigmatizing students
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in general as "bourgeois intellectuals" will prob-
ably encourage these teams.
The process of forming new provincial govern-
ments, renewed in mid-August after two and a half
months of inaction, was completed on 5 September with
the announcement of new revolutionary committees in
Tibet and Sinkiang. The new leaders are mostly old-
line military men with a few party officials also
included, as was the case with other recently formed
provincial governments.
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Malaysia-Philippines: Relations between the
two countries are again worsening.
On 4 September, Kuala Lumpur sent a note to
Manila warning, in effect, that a break in relations
might result if President Marcos signs legislation
on territorial seas which reserves the Philippine
claim to Sabah. Marcos apparently will not act im-
mediately, referring the bill to his Foreign Policy
Council for consideration. He appears, however, to
have little choice but to sign.
If the bill does become law, the Philippine
Government appears to hope that Malaysia will pro-
test the section on Sabah when the document is de-
posited with the UN Secretary General. This would
open the way for the Philippines to bring the Sabah
dispute before the UN, a step Malaysia has sought
to avoid.
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Sweden: The national elections on 15 September
are expected to offer the non-Socialist parties their
first real opportunity in recent years to challenge
effectively the Social Democrats' decades-long con-
trol of the government,.
Early public opinion polls show the three non-
Socialist opposition parties--the Liberals, Conserva-
tives, and the Center--in a slight lead for control
of the 233-seat lower chamber of the Riksdag. All
signs now point to a close contest. On the far left,
the small but vigorous Communist Party has enjoyed
considerable success in cultivating an image of
liberalism and :independence from Moscow, and appears
to be making some inroads into the Social Democrats'
traditional sources of support. The Czechoslovak
crisis, however, has probably hurt the Communists
despite their vehement attacks on Moscow.
The Social Democrats, in power for some 35
years, have seen a small but steady erosion of their
voter strength in recent years. This results largely
from the lack of vital domestic issues and from the
movement further to the left of young voters who
believe that the party has run out of ideas.
Prime Minister Erlander and the party leader-
ship have sought to win the support of youth and
the more radical. elements by focusing on foreign
policy issues of little direct interest to Sweden.
Foremost among these issues has been the US in-
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