CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00975A016800060002-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 10, 2004
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: July 31, 1970
• Content Type: REPORT

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Central Intelligence Bulletin
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West Germany - Poland: The two countries have drafted
a text of a reconciliation treaty. (Page 9)
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West Germany - Poland: The two sides have
drafted a text of a reconciliation treaty, but re-
main apart on the key issue of the finality of the
Oder-Neisse line.
Tentative agreement on all but the most diffi-
cult portions of a text was reached at the fifth
round of talks from 23-25 July. The basic elements,
in addition to a border settlement, are pledges to
abstain from the use of force and to normalize re-
lations. According to a Bonn Foreign Office offi-
cial, there may still be problems over precise word-
ing, and in the meantime the text is to be regarded
as a working document subject to review and revision
by both governments.
After apparently discussing the Oder-Neisse is-
sue at length, the negotiators settled on language
stating that the existing border, "established" by
the Potsdam Agreement, constitutes the western bor-
der of Poland. The German official thought this
formulation could cause misgivings in Bonn because
it might be interpreted as outright recognition of
the border, rather than the provisional "acceptance"
that Bonn has been offering.
For their part, the Poles, according to the of-
ficial, flatly refused to accept a draft letter,
separate from the treaty, acknowledging four-power
rights for Germany and Berlin, lest such an act imply
that the border settlement was provisional and sub-
ject to four-power determination. In view of this,
the German official said it might be necessary for
Bonn simply to exchange letters with the Western Al-
lies restating their continuing rights pending a fi-
nal peace settlement. Such an exchange would serve
to protect the Brandt government from charges by
the Christian Democratic opposition that it had given
complete and final recognition to the Oder-Neisse
line, French and British representatives have indi-
cated concern, however, that this device might not
adequately protect four-power rights.
Despite the remaining difficulties, the German
official sensed th
early agreement.
meet next in Bonn
at the Poles were
He said that the
between 4 and 15
eager to reach
two sides would
September.
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