whioh are bei~9 featured prominontly in both domestic ··and int~rnational raµio pr~·;rammi~19. Pravda, scerni~gly ·urqinq a coup, called on th1a "workin9 class and all 
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worki~q people of·C~eqhoslo"\l'akitl with Communist~ at thQir head to bar the way to coun·terrevolution.•• The Soviet party paper also reminded the Czechs that "our part~ u.nd 


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9. At 11:30 AM EDT· a Wes~ern pres~ service reported fro~ Prague that the entire=czechos1ovak presidium had 
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INTELLIGENCE MEMORAN.WM 
The Situation in Czechosl<?yakia,, as of 11:00 AM EDI' 
At.11:30 AM ED'.r a Western presa service reporte~ from Prague that the 
entire Czechoslovak presidium had boarded a plane and left the city. 
Their destination is not known but there are unconfirmed reports that 
the site of the Soviet-Czech meeting may be the village of Cierne. in the 
extreme southeast of Slovakia. 
A massive outpouring of citizen SU!;·~c~-t embold~neci party leader Dubcek to tell the nation over radic and tel~visicn ycst~rday that.the leadership 
' would stand firm during its r.\Z:0tin(i with the Sov~ets. 
Today's Pravda article set th~ ·ton~ for a spate ~f Soviet warnings on the 
Czechoslovak situation vhicr.. .;.l-e beinz ~eatured prc·!·:..:.nently :i.n both domestic 
and international. radio programming. Pravda,calleci on the "working class 
and all working people of Cze:;~oslovakia with Com."":lun:Lsts at their head 
to bar the way to counterrevolution." The Soviet party paper also hinted 
that Moscow might be prepared to in-r.ervene if Czechcslovak ''Communists11 
failed to act. The propaganda barrage ie undoubtf.-dly intended to inf'luence 
those members ot the Czechoslove.k pres~dium who may be waveri 

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