SITUATION REPORT: POLAND

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84B00049R001503790010-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 17, 2008
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: January 7, 1982
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
DIRECTORATE OF INTELLIGENCE
7 January 1982
Information as of 1630
SITUATION REPORT: POLAND
The authorities claim to have found in Solidarity's national
headquarters an "action program" for an expected forceful
confrontation with the regime. Union members purportedly were to
disrupt radio and television communications, use "special spikes"
against government vehicles, block troop movements with
barricades and the use of Molotov cocktails and captured arms.
Today's issue of the army newspaper Zolnierz Wolnosci accused
Solidarity of creating a "shadow cabinet" designed to take over
the country. Such stories are probably intended to discredit
Solidarity by accentuating its "extremism" and political.
ambition, but few in Poland are likely to be persuaded. The
resurgence of negative reporting on Solidarity also coincides
with the trials of union militants and serves to justify a future
reform course that severely restricts Solidarity's room for
maneuver. F-~
An advisor to Jaruzelski and a senior party official both
claim that negotiations are going on with Solidarity, but neither
would name the union interlocutors. They are probably referring
to the low level contacts previously reported. (C)
Embassy officers have been granted approval for trips to
Lublin, Rzeszow, Lodz, and Wroclaw for the first time since
martial law was imposed. Approval for these trips. may indicate
reduced government concern about having outside observors in
these areas. Travel to Gdansk, Poznan and Krakow, however, is
still not permitted, perhaps because of continuing difficulties
in these provinces.
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High-level meetings between Soviet and Polish civilian
officials are taking place for the first time since the
imposition of martial law. Trade and economic planning officials
met in Moscow yesterday to finalize details of the 1982 bilateral
trade agreement. On Monday, Polish Foreign Minister and
Politburo member Czyrek will arrive in Moscow for three days of
talks with Foreign Minister Gromyko and other Soviet officials.
The Soviets, who are sensitive about the prominence of the
military in Poland, presumably wish to indicate that civilian
officials--especially the Central Committee level--continue to 25X1
play important roles.
Moscow broadened its attacks on West European governments
critical of the USSR's role in the Polish crisis. Izvestiya
today reportedly accused Italian Prime Minister Spadolini of
trying to play up to Washington and to those in Italy trying to
make political capital out of anti-Corrmunism and
anti-Sovietism. In addition, Pravda today reportedly lev led
criticism at the French for "anti-socialist hysteria."
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