PRELIMINARY SITUATION REPORT - POLAND

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84B00049R000200410016-3
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• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 11, 2007
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: January 5, 1982
• Content Type: REPORT

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r'F h'TRAL I NTE Lt_ 1 GE Nt'.E AGENCY
DIRECTORATE OF INTELLIGENCE
5 January 1982
Information as of 1530
Preliminary Situation Report
4 I TI IAT 1 t^N REPC1 T : POLAND
According to the Rritlsh press, Polish party officials have
said that there may he it meeting of the Central Cotnuittee later
this week, the first since the declaration of martial law. This
may imply a increased role for the party which has been in the
background during the first several weeks of martial law. The
meeting may also clarify the fate of regional party leaders and
wiII surely provide a forum for font t ing between party
h.trdl iners, moderates, and liberals.
Reuters reports that the sixth bulletin issued by Solidarity
and reaching the West on 4 lanuary stressed that there was
increased resistance within the army to the crackdown on
Solidarity. Through not confirmed, the bulletin states that
clashes occurred between the army and police at flydgosir7, that
hundreds of army of f icrrs have turned in their ('orrenttni%t party
cards, and that 14 miners were killed by security forces at the
Manifest Lipcowy Colliery in Silesia. Meanwhile, Solidarity
leaders in exile will hold their second strategy net ing in
Brussels on 8 January.
have indicated
that there is a possil>> I itv of a widespread purge among (.rculty
and Students of Warsaw 'wivc?r!,ities and schools because they have
close associat ions wit? tic I I((ar s t y. The regirrrr rr?Inain. c oncerned
ahout the potent ial f,,r nor ?s t ?tiivon'?. students and ynulh, and
Jarui.eIski Is advisers dre now working on a program fur dealing
with this prohSm,.
The Japanese Foreign Minister said yesterday that Japan does
rot plan to impose san(t iortt against Poland and the IISSR. The
Japanese have responders favi)rahly to the FC eo?nmuni(ltre and wi I I
weigh the results of the t.+1ks between President Reagan .rnd
ChanceI for Schmidt and of the NATO rni,ni ster sal niet-1 ing on
Monday.
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the first to the US'?
imposition of martial law.
regularly travel to Most ow
consultations.
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East European foreign minister'.
at the beginning of the year for
The Soviet rrwdia rreanwhi le reportedly are +naintaininy; All
ambivalent attitude toward the F.c Foreign Ministers' ca 11111)Ititle
yesterday. TASS today criticized the ministers for viol.+t i'ig the
tenets of the Helsinki Final Art and the tIN Charter by .tierryttifg
to interfere in Poland's internal affairs, but noted with
Satisfaction that the Europeans had resisted alleged pressure
Irom Washington to subscribe to UIS sanctions. A pnlitica I
comnentator on Soviet television expressed optimism that the
sand ions .it nr?rct
Europeans would reaffirm their position on
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Monday's NATO Foreign Ministers
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