DISPUTE OVER KLADSKO REGION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000100420007-1
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 11, 1998
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: November 14, 1946
• Content Type: IR

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., INT"m LIGENCE GROUP
I TELLIGE E REPORT
COUNTRY C echosiova 5 a
BJECT Disputes over Kladskco Region
ORIGIN
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DIST. 14. November 1946
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Czechoslovak activity in support of the claim on the 11.adsko (Glatt)
region continuer despite the rebuke received from the Russianw in
answer to the circular note which was sent, to the Big Three in Ucto-
ber 1946., The' Russians insisted that Czecho ,iovaki.a had no business
to turn to the Big Powers in support of territoril claims involving
the eastern German boundari sb -.which are already settled. This rnattTr
can only be solved by direct ncgotiatiar s. between Czechoslovakia and
Poland, Czechosloslovakia hi t ee d:: tip th matter with the Poles in
recurring frontier discussions but has not yet achieved any results,
An unofficial Czech committee in -aid of Kladako, headed by Doctor Jan
Straroky National Socialist member o.a Parliament, Aid under the =i a1
National Committee, maintains close touch with refugees from Kladsko
s:Yt zrr ~i .a d
in the area of the Czech border town, achod."., Contact is
propa,;;.n(Aa is ja.ss". '.GY'oss ` h ; i..ord r throe!- food
from Po. and under a pact with Polish border guards who have -been,
bribed. This chain reports that newly arrived Soviet Army troops are
in the areva:.,
Kladsko catch them in a p give attitude.,
The Czech cor mi ttee admits that it was practicali :i mmpcss ibl a for the
Czechoslovak Peace Delegation to file an official claim., especially
in view of the podition of the Soviet Union on Germanys eastern
frontier., The last hope lies in Byrnes a Stuttgart speech, and the
committee is hopeful that the United States will at least bring up
the problem at the conference on the Peace Treaty with Germany. The
further question o internal political jqanteuver is involved here,,
For shrewd politicans see the Communists in a delicate position from
a .tionaliat standpoint, should questions by the Big Powers,. about
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