CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00975A017900070002-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 7, 2003
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: January 2, 1971
• Content Type: REPORT

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FINLAND: The governmental crisis has subsided.
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FINLAND: The governmental crisis subsided
earlier this week when the Communists reversed them-
selves and voted for key portions of President Kek-
konen's economic stabilization program, but the
program is not yet out of the woods.
The crisis had its origins in the factional
infighting within the Communist Party, which is
a member of the governing center-left coalition.
By mid-October, the conservative minority within
the party had in effect moved, with apparent Soviet
support, into a position of opposition to the gov-
ernment, hoping thereby to increase its political
appeal.
Rather than see the. party split or fall into
conservative hands, the moderate leadership decided
to adopt the minority's tactics, thus posing the
choice to the Soviets whether to see the party
leave the government and oppose Kekkonen on an is-
sue on which he had staked his prestige.
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y at ovie instigation, backed down, proposing
instead that the party remain in the government
and allow the stabilization bills to be passed.
The battle over approval of the program has
now shifted to the trade union movement, where
Communist-led unions continue to oppose it. The
pivotal event will take place on 3-5 January, when
the metal workers union membership votes. Social
Democratic union leaders, who support the govern-
ment, are cautiously optimistic.
whatever the outcome of the trade union bal-
loting, feuding within the Communist Party will
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