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COUNTRY: ITALY/ CZECHOSLOVAKIA 

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COMMUNIST LEADERS' REACTIONS TO INVASION OF . CZECHOSLOVAKIA 
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SOURCE: 
1. THE SOVIET OCCUPATION OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA CAUGHT THE 
LEADER SHI? OF THE ITALIAN COMMUNIST PARTY COMPLETELY BY SURPRISE. 
DURING THE MORNING OF 21 AUGUST, A HASTILY CONVOKED .MEETING OF 

THE DIREZIONE MET TO ISSUE A STATEMENT IN THE NAME 
OF THE 
POLITICAL BUREAU. ONLY TWO MEMBERS Or THIS LATER BODY WERE 
PRESENT, PIETRO INGRAO ·AND GIORGIO NAPOLETANO; ONGO, AMENDOLA,
BERLINGUER, PAJETTA t1ACALUSO ON VACATION. THE

AND \VERE MEETING 
CONSIDERED IT ESSENTIAL 
TO ISSUE AN B1MEDIATE STATEMENT 
DISAPPROVING THE SOVIET MARCH INTO CZECHOSLOVAKIA. THE TEXT 
WAS THEN READ OVER THE TELEPONE TO LUIGI LONGO, WHO ~AS IN 
MOSCOW, AND APPROVED BY HIM. 

2. SOVIET OCCUPATION OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA WAS CONDEMNED BY 
ALL CURRENTS IN THE ?CI, INCLUDING E\lEN THE REMAINING OLD 
STALINISTS. DEE? DEPRESSION AND \!JORRY REIGNED ?CI

AT 
M~ADQUARTERS OVER THE POLITICAL CONSEQUENCES OF CZECH EVENTS,( TH INTERNATIONALLY AND IN ITALY. THE SOVIET ACTION 
CONDEMNS 
THE DUBCEK COURSE WHICH THE ?CI HAD SUPPORTED AND EXALTED 
AS THE FORERUNNER OF AN "ITALIAN ROAD TO SOCIALISM," Ai'lD BY 
IMPLICATION DAMNS PCI POLICIES OF THE LAST 

T~ELVE YEARS. 
3. DISSEM: STATE. 
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