STAFF NOTES: SOVIET UNION EASTERN EUROPE

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April 1, 1975
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25X1 Approved For Release 2004/06/29 :CIA-RDP86T00608R000400080014-6 Approved For Release 2004/06/29 : CIA-RDP86T00608R000400080 TOO Secret 9ThEE ?TrL Soviet Union Eastern Europe 25X1 Tokswret 25X1 25X1 April 1, 1975 Approved For Release 2004/06/29 : CIA-RDP86T00608R000400080014-6 25X1 Approved For Release 2004/06/29 : CIA-RDP86T00608R000400080014-6 Approved For Release 2004/06/29 : CIA-RDP86T00608R000400080014-6 25X1 Approved For R4 SOVIET UNION . EASTERN EUROPE 25X1 CONTENTS April 1, 1975 Belgrade Edgy on Soviet- Bulgarian Cooperation . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Yugoslavs Protest Assassination Attempt in Lyons . . . . . . . . . . . . . ? 3 New Socio-Economic Institute in Leningrad . . . . . . . . . . . ? ? ? ? ? 4 CHRONOLOGY . . . . . . . . ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 5 25X1 Approved For Release 2004/06/29 : CIA-RDP86T00608R000400080014-6 Approved For ReI4 Betel rade Edgy on Soviet-Bulgarian Cooperation The Yugoslavs are once again openly criti- cizing the Soviets and Bulgaria for their stands on disputed issues involving the two Balkan coun- tries. The latest target of Yugoslav ire is an arti- cle commemorating the 30th anniversary of the "de- feat of fascism" by Marshal Yakubovsky, L-apreme commander of the Warsaw Pact. Yakubovsky's claim that the Soviet army played a key role in organ- izing all the liberation efforts in Eastern Europe has always sharply offended Belgrade, the more so in this case because it supports a disputed Bul- garian version of the war. Yugoslav journalists are denouncing the Soviet and Bulgarian lines as a deliberate attempt to minimize the extensive Yugo- slav and Albanian guerrilla war effort, which re- ceived no Soviet support until late in the war. It is not yet clear how far Belgrade intends to carry its denunciations of the Yakubovsky arti- cle. Tito is currently in the Macedonian Republic --which borders on Bulgaria--for talks with local leaders. The week before Tito's arrival, Macedonian authorities had held a series of meetings to dis- cuss border security in towns adjacent to Bulgaria. The atmosphere thus appears primed for Tito to re- state Yugoslav determination to fend off any pres- sures from this quarter. Although the dispute over Yakubovsky's arti- cle may at first glance appear to be a simple difference in historical viewpoint, it means much April 1, 1975 Approved For Release - 00400080014-6 12 1 ,11 ,1 1114 a 6`5`121,119. 25X1 25X1 Approved For Release 2004/06/29 : CIA-RDP86T006084 00400080014-6 25X1 morn to the Yugoslavs, who see in it an explicit attack on their independent defense and foreign policies. 25X1 25X1 Yugoslav sensitivities go beyond bruised pride, ultimately resting on wariness that collu- sion between Bulgaria and the USSR could pose a threat to Yugoslav national security. April 1, 1975 t 25X1 25X1 25X1 Approved For Release 2004/06/29: CIA-RDP86T00608R000400080014-6 Approved For Rel Yugoslavs Protest Assassination Attempt in Lyons 5X1 25X1 The Yugoslavs on Sunday delivered diplomatic protests to both the French ambassador in Belgrade and the Foreign Ministry in Paris as a result of the terrorist attack on its vice consul in Lyons the previous day. Belgrade's angry reaction pre- sages a determined effort to persuade France to crack down on Yugoslav emigres. Belgrade's protest included demands that Paris take the "most vigorous measures" to find and punish the terrorists and hinted that the incident could affect bilateral relations. The Yugoslavs probably hope to convince Paris that it should suppress all anti-Titoist emigres. Similar pressures on the West Germans and the Australians have resulted in the denial of safe haven to a number of emigre-terrorist groups. A Croat emigre organization, the National Re- sistance, has claimed responsibility for machine- gunning the Yugoalav diplomat. The National Resis- tance is a particularly vicious terrorist group that organized both the assassination of the Yugo- slav ambassador to Sweden in 1971 and an aerial hijacking that led to the subsequent release of the assassins. The group's leader reportedly The Croat Revolu- tionary Brotherhood, the organization that led the 1972 guerrilla raid into Yugoslavia, also reportedly has ties to t ional Resistance. The Brother- hood's leader April 1, 1975 25X1 25X1 25X1 , 25X1 Approved For Release 2004/06/29 : CIA-RDP86T00608R000400080014-6 Approved For R4 New Socio-Economic. Ins ute in Len ncrrad The USSR Academy of Sciences has announced (in Vestnik, No. 2, 1975) the establishment of an In- stitute of Socio-Economic Problems in Leningrad. The institute's director will. be Geliy Nikolayevich Cherkasov, a relative unknown who was previously a professor at the Leningrad Finance Economics In- stitute. The new institute is biing organized from the existing Leningrad "sektors" of the Institute of Philosophy, the Institute of Sociological Re- search, and the Institute of Economics, and the Leningrad branches of the Central Economic-Mathe- matical Institute and the Institute of the History of Natural Science and Technology. The Institute of Socio-Economic Problems will be subordinate to the Academy's Economics Department, although the Philosophy and Law Department will direct the re- search which relates to those fields. 25X1 April 1, 1975 25X1 25X1 25X1 Approved For Release 2004/06/29 CIA-RDP86T00608R000400080014-6 5X1 Approved For Rel 25X1 CHRO NOLOGY March 20 V. I. Dol Committee DPRK Amba gikh, Secret , receives K ssador to th ary CP won Hu e Sovi SU Ce i-Kyo et Un ntral ng, ion. 25X1 March 23-25 Bulgarian in Argent Foreign Min ina where he ister is re Mlade ceive nov d by President Peron. 25X1 March 24 All-union marking t March 196 attending tary Kula conference he tenth ann 5 plenum on include spe kov, Belorus is hel iversa agricu akers sian p d in ry of lture Party arty Moscow the . Those Secre- boss Masherov, and Moldavian party boss Bodyul; Politburo member and Minister of A riculture Pot ansky also attends. March 25 Gambian President Jawara departs USSR after his official visit. Party congress. 25X1 25X1 Politburo member Kirilenko returns' to Moscow from the Italian Communist Ngouabi. Brezhnev and Foreign Minister Gromyko confer with visiting Congo President Czechoslovak Federal Assembly con- venes for a two-day meeting; Premier April 1, 1975 25X1 25X1 25X1 Approved For Release 2004/06/29 : CIA-RDP86T00608R000400080014-6 25X1 Approved For Rele Strougal delivers a major speech on 25X1 25X1 domestic and foreign policy. March 25-28 Bulgarian Foreign Minister Mladenov in Peru where he signs long-term eco- nomic cooperation and cultural agree- ments. March 26 President Podgorny, First Deputy Premier Mazurov, and Foreign Minister Gromyko confer with visiting go President Ngouabi. East German Politburo member Warnke April 1, 1975 at the city's only synagogue. Diplomatic sources in Phnom Penh report that the Soviet embassy there is closing down. Moscow police harass several hundred Jews attending the Passover service US, USSR, and UK deposit their in- struments of ratification of the convention curbing the development and stockpiling of biological weapons, an action which will permit the convention enter into force. First group of East German workers for the Orenburg pipeline project departs for the USSR. Approved For Re ease - 000400080014-6 25X1 25X1 25X1 25X1 25X1 25X1 25X1 25X1 Approved For Rele4se 2004/06/29 : CIA-RDP86T00608RP00400080014-6 25X1 East German-Austrian consular agreement signed in East Berlin, 25X1 Bulgarian National Assembly ends a two- day session which features a lengthy "accountability report" delivered by Premier Stanko Todorov. 25X1 March 27 Yugoslav airlines commences spring charter flights to and from New York; the government in Belgrade fears a possible hijacking bi emigres. 25X1 Congolese President Ngouabi concludes talks at the Kremlin. Agreements were signed on cooperation in the economic, technical and mining areas. Yugoslav Minister of Defense Ljubicic arrives in Libya. Guyana's Prime Minister Burnham concludes Romanian visit. 25X1 25X1 Meeting of CEMA lannin commission opens in Moscow. March 28 M. V. Tolstikov, Soviet Ambassador to PRC, delivers official message to Norodom Sihanouk stating that USSR recognizes only GRUNC as the legal government of Cambodia. Yugoslav Party Secretary Kurtovic holds talks on ideology with Ceausescu in Bucharest. March 29 Bulgarian Foreign Minister Mladenov begins an official visit to Cuba. April 1, 1975 Approved For Rele 25X1 25X1 25X1 25X1 25X1 25X1 Approved For Releas service in Moscow synagogue. Moscow police again harass Passover March 29-30 Artists show in seven apartments un- conventional. paintings by 100 of their fellows from Moscow, Leningrad, Tbilisi Alma Ata, and the Ukraine. March 30 Bu..garian Foreign Trade Minister Nedev arrives in Romania for official talks. March 31 Politburo member Shelepin arrives in London, two days early, for talks with British Trade Union leaders. Yugoslav-Soviet economic protocol signed 25X1 25X1 25X1 25X1 25X1 25X1 latest mission. F__ n 25X1 Two Jews sentenced in Moscow to five years exile for pro-emi ra ion demon- stration. Dissident writer Anatoly Marchenk:-' sentenced to four years exile osten- sibly for parole violation. Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmi meets with the Soviet Ambassador to Cairo, Vladimir Polyakov, discussing the Mideast situation in the wake of the failure of Secretary Kissin er's in Moscow. East German First Deputy Premier and Politburo member Mitta be ins a visit to Bulgaria. Costa Rican Foreign Minister Gonzalo Facio ends a six-day official visit to Romania. 25X1 25X1 25X1 April 1, 1975 25X1 Approved For Release 2004/06/29 : CIA-RDP86T00608R000400080014-6 25X1 Approved For Relea FUTURE EVENTS April 5 Polish Ambassador to Czechoslovakia Motyka to return home to take charge of cultural affairs for the party. April 6 Romanian Minister of Heavy Machinery Avram to begin a two-week, official visit to the US. . 25X1 April 7 Czechoslovak Federal Assembly president Indra to begin a one-week, official visit to Iran. April 9 US Postal Service delegation to begin a one-week official visit to the USSR. 25X1 25X1 25X1 an official visit to Czechoslovakia. UN Secretary General Waldheim to make April 10 US-Soviet commercial commission to convene in Moscow for a two-day meeting with Treasur Secretar Simon on hand. April 18 Communist-front World Peace Council to convene a three-day meeting in East Berlin on European security and the "struggle against Fascism." April 22 Communist-front World Peace Council to convene in Copenhagen to consider April 1, 1975 25X1 25X1 25X1 Approved For Release 2004/06/29 : CIA-RDP86T00608R000400080014-6 25X1 25X1 Approved For Release 2004/06/29 - CIA-RDP86TOO608R0 developments in Chile and Viatnum. late April Vice Chairman Saddam Hussayn of Iraq may visit Moscow. PLO leader Yasir Arafat ma visit Moscow. May 9 USSR and its allies to mark their observance of the 30th anniversary of V-E Day. Yugoslav V-E Day parade to feature now armament;. May 14 Warsaw Pact member-states to obsorve the 20th anniversary of its formation. 25X1 2X1 25X1 April 1, 1975 Approved For Release 2004/06/29 : CIA-RDP86T00608R000400080014-6