STAFF NOTES: WESTERN EUROPE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP86T00608R000400120002-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 15, 2005
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: January 3, 1975
• Content Type: REPORT

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UK's Two EC Commissioners will Campaign for
Continued UK Membership in EC . . . . . . . 3
Cuba and West Germany Move to Establish
Diplomatic Relations . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
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his appeals on Conservative and Liberal audiences,
while Thomson will address trade union and Labor
UK's Two l,;C Commissioners Will Campaign for
Continued UK Memb,~rship in EC
Britain's two EC Commissioners plan to
campaign actively in the UK for continued British
membership in the community. Their tours of
the UK during the coming months, while not the
first occasion Commissioners have engaged
in domestic politics, may nevertheless add a
new note of controversy to the referendum campaign.
Both Christopher Soames and George Thomson
have made it clear in the past that they regard
it as their responsibility as Commissioners
to keep their countrymen informed about the
consequences of EC membership..
Although the British press is likely to
approve their entry into the referendum campaign,
the anti-marketeers probably will not. Thomson,
in particular, may get a rough time from his
former colleagues in the badly split Labor Party.
Soames is probably hoping that his projected
speaking engagements will nut him back in the
public eye and allow him to test the waters for
a possible future bid to lead the Conservative
Party. He has already published a detailed
rebuttal of the anti-EC arguments recently made
by Labor anti-marketeer Tony Benn.
During the next few months Soames will concentrate
Party meetings. Both men will presumably seek
to show that Britain cannot afford to withdraw
from the EC and that UK membership does not involve
an unacccOthhble Ins-1, of sovereignty.
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Cuba and West Germany Move to Establish
Diplomatic Relations
Cuban and West German officials will meet
in Paris on January 7 to open negotiations on
the establishment of diplomatic relations. The
only question of substance to be settled in the
talks is the Federal Republic's right to repre-
sent West Berlin abroad. A formula similar to
the one Bonn uses with other Communist countries
should remove this obstacle.
West Germany and Ireland are the only
European countries that have not recognized
the Castro regiire. Bonn broke relations with
Havana in January
1963 after the Cubans reco nixed
East Germany.
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