CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Publication Date: January 10, 1970
• Content Type: REPORT

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Central Intelligence Bulletin
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No. 0009/70
10 January 1970
Central Intelligence Bulletin
CONTENTS
Communist China - USSR: Both sides are increasing
their war of nerves . (Page 1)
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Hungary-Yugoslavia-USSR: Condemnation of Soviet
Marxism by a leading Hungarian Marxist will embarrass
the government. (Page 3)
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USSR-Cuba: Communications station (Page 5)
USSR-Ghana: Crude oil contract G age 5)
UN: Security Council meeting (Page 6}
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Communist China ~~ USSR: Both sides are in-
creasing their war of nerves as the second round
of border talks resumes in Peking.
The Chinese have used a Hong Kong Communist
newspaper article to lay full responsibility on
Moscow for the lack of progress in the first two
months of the talks. The article implied that the
Soviets are attempting to apply military pressure
along the Chinese border in order to gain advantage
in the talksm It added that this behavior .is opposed
to an understanding reached during the Kosygin-Chou
meeting on 11 September..
The Chinese have consistently maintained that
a mutual agreement: to withdraw military forces
a~.ong the border must precede negotiations on other
substantive border issues, and Peking doubtless ex-
pects such publicity to demonstrate China's deter-
mination to maintain its position in the talks.
Moreover, Peking almost certainly judges that Mos-
cow, as the stronger party in the dispute, is vul-
nerable to charges of heavy-handed pressure tactics.
Moscow signaled the complete end of its prop-
aganda stand-down with China by issuing a 900-word
blast, accusing Chinese leaders of "artificially
whipping up military psychosis?' and increasing
"anti-Soviet slander," The attack was centered
on China's "war preparations" campaign, which Tass
claimed was really aimed at distracting attention
from China's domestic ills and was a device for
overcoming "splits and quarrels" among Peking's
leaders.
Such sharp propaganda exchanges are a good
indication that. the border talks, which reportedly
resumed last Monday, will remain at an impasse.
The Chinese and Russians, however, seem to have
little to gain by breaking off the discussions,
and both appear to be prepared for a protracted
stalemate,
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Hungary-Yugoslavia-USSR: The condemnation of
Soviet Marxism by Eastern Europe's foremost living
Marxist philosopher will embarrass the Hungarian
regime and may become another issue in Soviet-Yugo-
s.lav relations.
The Yugoslav party daily Borba published an in-
terview with Gyorgy Lukacs in its 29 December and
1-2 January editions. Hungary's Lukacs blasted the
Soviets for continuing distortions of Marxism and
called for a "Marxist renewal" in all the Socialist
countries. He also said that French and Italian
workers would not want to live in the Soviets'. un-
democratic system. Lukacs praised Tito's self-man-
agement system--anathema to the Soviets--as a con-
trib ution to a resurgence of the basic idea of a
workers' democracy. The interview appeared just
after the Soviets published their Lenin Theses,
which contained criticism of the Yugoslav system.
The 85-year-old Lukacs has long been known as
an anti-Stalinist, but this is the first time he
has so openly linked current Soviet problems to Sta-
linist errors. Although he holds no official posi-
tions and has often been in trouble in the past, he
is a party member, and his attacks will be an embar-
rassment to party chief Kadar. The Kadar regime may
choose to ignore the affair publicly, but it might
also have to face Soviet displeasure.
Yugoslav officials will also be concerned about
the interview. While they do not disagree with Lu-
kacs, they do not want Hungary's cautious liberal-
ization jeopardized by tighter Saviet controls.
When Yugoslav Foreign Minister Tepavac arrives in
Budapest on 12 January, he may well deny that the
interview had official sanction.
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USSR-Cuba: Moscow has agreed to assist in
build~.ng a ground station in Cuba for telephone,
telegraph, and TV communications via satellite under
the terms of an agreement signed on 9 January. The
two countries had announced their intention to pro-
ceed with this project in 1.966 and 1967, but the
recent warming in political relations may have pro-
vided the impetus to move forward at this time.
Implementation of the agreement., which may take
place within the next year or two, would for the
first time provide the USSR with a ground station
that can both send and receive outside of Soviet
borders. According to press reports, it would give
Cuba direct multichannel telegraph and telephone
links with the Soviet Union and would also make
possible the exchan e of TV programs between the
two countrieso
US5R-Ghana: It is likely that the Soviet
Union this year will provide more than half of
Ghana"s crude oil re uirements, contrary to ex-
pectations. the
USSR will ship ons o cruae o~ o a total
900,000 tons required for the Tema refinery. The
Russians were considered to be out of the competi-
tion because in 1969 they defaulted on their con-
tract obligations, providing only about three
fourths of the 700,000 tons they had agreed to ship.
Western countries were asked to fill the short-
fall in 1969 and, as a result, were expected to
regain the predominant supply position they once
had,
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UN: The Security Council president for Jan-
uary, Terence Nsanze of Burundi, expects a Council
meeting on Sout~~-West Africa to be called within
two weeks. African members will-try to have the
Council deal with Pretoria's refusal to comply with
the 4 October 1969 Council deadline for the South
African administration to withdraw from the- terri~
tory. Inasmuch as this will be the first Council
meeting of the year, there could be a challenge to
Taiwan's right. to a seat. Nsanze says that Burundi
will not raise the China issue and he has no in-
dication that any other member may do so.
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