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AMEMBASSY PARIS U1EMBASSY LONDON AMEMBASSY WARSAW AMEMBASSY PRAGUE AMEMBASSY BUDAPEST AMEMBASSY BUCHAREST AMEMBASSY BELGRADE AMEMBASSY SOFIA USMISSlON NATO AMCONSUL MUNICH AMEMBASSY MOSCOW US~REUR FOR POLAD/HEIDELBERG C~NCEUR FOR POLAD/VAIHINGEN US~FE FOR POLAD/WIESADEN 
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SUBUECT1 	FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS IN EAST BERLIN REGARDING THE CZECH SITUATION 
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A MISSION OFFICER WHO VISITED EAST BERLIN ON THE MORNING OF 
23RD NOTED NO UNUSUAL ACTlVITY IN THAT PARf OF THE CITV• 
AN~TMING1 THERE APPEARED TO BE FEWER POLICE THAN NORMAL IN 
EWtOENCE IN THE CENTRAL PART OF EAST BERLIN• THERE WERE NO 
OUTSIDE THE CZECH EMBASSY1 WHICH~ AT TME TlME HE DROVE 
w~ GUARDED ONLV B¥ ONE POLICEMAN• THE HOUSE OF CZECHOS ov 

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CULTURE WAS QUITE CROWDED~ IN RESPONSE TO A QUESTION1 THE MIS• S10N : OFFICER WAS TOLD THAT NO CZECH NEWSPAPERS · WERE AVAILABLE~ HE WAS TOLD THE SAME THING AT A REGULAR NEWS KIOSK1 BUT~ cHIS M~V BE DUE TO DISRUPTION OF COMMUNICATIONS BE~WEEN PRAGUE ~N6 EAS:r· B£RL ·1N • 
2~ ACCORDING TO A WESTERN JOURNALIST1 WHO CITES A CZECH FRiENO 
AS H~S SOURCE1 THE CZECH EMBASSY IN EAST BERLIN CONTINUES TO 
RECEiVE MESSAGES OF SYMPATHY ANO ' SOLIDARITY FROM EAST . GERMAN 
C«TlZENS• 

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3• REPORTS ARE BEGINNING TO CIRCULATE IN WEST· BERLIN THAT HANO PR1Nr£o LEAFLETS APPEARED ON THE 1 STREETS OF EAST BERLIN NEAR TH£! CZECH' EMBASSY LATE ON THE AFTERNOON OF AUGUST 22• ACCORD• ING TO A WESTERN JOURNAL1ST WHO HAS SEEN A COPY OF THE LEA~LEf1 1r·M~S TH£ FOL~OWING coNrENT~ "FRIENOS1 COMRAOESI FOREIGN T~NkS IN TM£ CSSR SERVE ON~¥· THE CL~SS ENEM¥t THINK OF THE RE• 
•ur1rto~ OF SOCIALISM IN TH£ WORLD I DEMAND FIN~LL¥' ACCURATE lNFORMlTJON• NO ONE JS TOO DUMB TO THINK FOR HIMSELF!" WE ~•VE BEEN UNABLE TO OBTAIN AN¥ INFORMATION A60U~ THE POSSIBLE SOURCE OF SUCH A LEAF~ET OR MOW WIDELY IT . MAY H~VE BEEN DlS• T•t8UfED IN EAST BERLIN OR ELSEWHERE IN THE GDR• 
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