NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 18, 2006
• Sequence Number: 36
• Publication Date: November 20, 1976
• Content Type: REPORT

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Saturday November 20, 1976 CI NIDC 76-272C
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Nat-innal Tntelliaence Daily Cable for Saturday November 20, 1976.
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EAST GERMANY: Watching Intellectuals
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EAST GERMANY: Watching Intellectuals
East German party officials are maintaining a care-
ful watch on students and intellectuals following the regime's
exile of Wolf Biermann, a leading critic of the regime.
The East German authorities have not yet reacted to
a public petition by several of the country's leading writers
and artists condemning Biermann's involuntary expatriation.
Among the signers was Christa Wolf, who, until her advocacy of
Biermann's cause, was one of the most loyal members of East
Germany's literary establishment.
Biermann has been a minor hero to leftist youth in
both East and West Germany for some time, and he has been
banned from making public appearances in East Germany since
1964. The leadership charged Biermann with making offensive
remarks about East Germany while on a tour of West Germany
last week. His reported recent appearance at a church-sponsored
youth gathering in Prenzlau--in defiance of the authorities--
was probably the catalyst, however, for the decision to pre-
vent him from returning to East Germany.
Biermann's exile comes against a backdrop of mount-
ing tension in church-state relations, as well as general un-
ease in East Germany over the economic situation and suspicion
that the regime may tighten travel restrictions. on East Ger-
man citizens. The move will further alienate that segment of
society--yout which the regime is encountering the most
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I I Philippine President Marcos has begun a crackdown on
his critics in the Catholic Church.
//On November 15, Marcos ordered the arrest of
members of the clergy and laity suspected of subversive activ-
ity in collaboration with either the Communist Party or former
politicians of the right One US priest has been arrested
is awaitina deportation
Radical clerics--often joined by the moderate lay
persons--have been the most outspoken critics of Marcos' mar-
tial law regime. //The current arrests are part of a compre-
hensive plan to counter church criticism by deporting foreign
priests who have been active in political agitation, placing
activist leaders in preventive detention, and scaring off their
financial patrons.//
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The President's move against the so-called Christian
left was foreshadowed by his revision last summer of the anti-
subversion law. He broadened the application of the law beyond
communist organizations to include any group allegedly engaged
in subversive activities--a revision partially aimed at his
Catholic critics.
The current action also seems to be part of a general
tightening up of the regime's control--an effort, launched by
Marcos after the recent referendum, that has led to a broad
investigation of the civil service and military for misconduct
or disloyalty and to n announcement that 327 militar erson-
nel have been sacked.
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