SOVIET AND SATELLITE RADIO COMMENT ABOUT THE CFM SESSIONS IN PARIS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000500730097-1
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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 9, 2004
• Sequence Number: 97
• Publication Date: November 30, 1998
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY ~""+ end S>tte %cca nentator interjects the warning that "Berlin v-1.11 never take on the pail. ;':: 'mIirly
assigned `rte Shanghai. ... The i:nel.c,rious end of the Wes Le=n Powers' role in Shanglie.i should
give them, serious food for thought." T e Satellite radios have issued relatively few b.i-
dependent -comments about the Confaxreuce. As do Moscow and the Soviet-controlled. Gtrmr&u. radios,
'jUJ. w UNNULy ai reVeand anot't o- wear"; -.1ze also 2e#ers to the "failure to democratize Western Germany where the
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German'tmity remain a constant element in Soviet and Soviet-controlled merman eritiricann of
tits Vreterm proposals on the subject. In addition, there appears to be a slight tecroncyto
"turn to the old charge, hitherto soft-pedalled during the current Conference, that ,Western
policy envisages a militarized G i tazxq aimed at the Soviet Union and the New Desm,;rracles. A.
wid.ly d1 n h-_1"i+mA S'mr4 a niw.NNmn+.,.... 'I.... - .- . . _
a limited ecormnic agreement among the Four Powers."
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allegedly proposing the extension of the Western Powers military alliances to the whole of
Germany and for "waving aside the possibility of settling; the German problem in Paris." Then,
in the same contoxt, Vinogradov says:
"The Marshall Plan and the North Atlantic Pact are military-strategic measures aimed
at launching an aggressive war against the Soviet Union and the Peoples Democracies.
To draw Germany into their orbit would mean a repetition of the well-known Hitlerite
policy."
A Sooviet-controlled Berlin broadcast speaks of the successful popular German resistance against
Anglo-U.S. attempts to turn the whole of Berlin. into a bridgehead in the cold war against
the USSR...." And a Rumanian broadcast charges that the Western proposals "are mere]vy;aimed
at incorporating the Eastern Zone of Germany into the anti-Soviet and anti-democratic'
Trizonia.... "
'_'OCOtR'ItTION "rnrr+ r rR nr?CF TREATY": This is the title of a Soviet commentary teamed to
Germany. The Germans are told that the Western Powers ant to perpetuate the Occupation
Statute and to extend it to all of Germany for the following reasons: (1) they want to keep
their troops in Germany for decades; (2) they want to preserve their monopoly of the most
important functions of State administration, particularly in the field of foreign trade;
(3) they want to maintain their power of interfering arbitrarily in German internal affairs;
(4) they want to be able to choke Germany's peace economy, to liquidate Germanrcompeti.tion,
and to exploit German technical inventions "free of charge"; (5) they want to perpetuate the
disruption of Germany; and (6) they desire to con+inue extracting huge reparations from
Germany under the guise of occupation costs.
S -+ I ~QI A commentary by Dr. Lemin constitutes the oviat radio's
most concentrated attention to the subject of unanimity. Claiming that Western sources "are
trying to prove that this principle is some kind of an insidious invention or Soviet
diplomacy.., directed against the Western Powers," Lemin traces the history of its use from
"before the First World War when the Soviet State was not yet in existence," through the
League of Nations days, to the present. Furthermore, he says, the U.S. in the past took a
positive view about the unanimity principle--especially during the period after the First
World War "when the U.S. was more persistent than auy o-uner country in stri'ing to protect
itself against having any sort of international organization force an unfavorable decision
upon it." Currently, however, "the American attack on the unanimity principle is... an
effort to substitute (for it) the... policy of American diztatorship"-_an "attempt which is
doomed to failure."
WSSZMN REJECTION OF THE PEOPLES ON,RFSS DELEQ TIpN is frequently
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stration of Western unwillingness cited nther ingress to heed the voice of the progressive Germ rmaan public. "But
the German people can never be silenced. Gathered in the National Front, it will raise its
voice louder than ever."
"B T.TN T, NEL~T?R TAKF nN TAR PART F ?Y ASSIGNED TO RHA MVI: This is one thesis of a
Soviet-controlled German broadcast which contrasts the diligent Berliners' reconstruction
efforts, aided by the USSR, with the obstacles to peaceful development allegedly erected by
Western policy. Otherwise, there has been relatively little comment on Berlin itself.
" yo -- -Lue"iue oroaacasts speak of Western
unwillingness to come to an understanding," a Hungarian commentator expresses qualified
optimism over the fact that "neither of the
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as YOU struck a note which would have
dispelled the possibilities of even a limited agreement." Another Hungarian broadcast
attributes possible western willingness for a "limited economic agreement" to the following
factors: the "deepening American economic crisis"; the "sharpening conflict among the
the Western countries"; Congressional postponement of the Atlantic Pact debate; and the
"power of the USSR and the masses fighting for peace."
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