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~ CElq'l'RAL ll'lTl3LL:IGEi4CE AGEl~Y Directorate :of Intelligence · · l ,September 1968' 
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The Situ~ti'O~ in nunu\ni·a ·and· cz·echo·s1·ovak·ia (As. of 1530 ED!r) 
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·l•· The ·o;; Attacne ·in:.nueharest reported today that. tenaion 
in Bucharest has decreased. He stated that the n\any tC\~l~tia 
· ·~o~f.i~.ers and securitY'. ~roops who had been in the numanian 
cap~tal ·a~e now~~ona. A:UPI correspondent also reported that 
.Bucharest was oalau as. well as the town of Iasi, only sixteen 
miles from th& ·Soviet-Rumanian border • 

. 3. ·A R-adio c~·echoslovakia broadcast this mor11i~'l.CJ repo:rted 
.~ha~ .the. 9'0vernrnent' s press secretary has denied that t>remier 
Cernik .appealed for th~ "best peopl.e" in the country to 
·ie.ave ))~cause .the Sovi&'es. have cornpiled a bla.ckll.at. 

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~~r~portefly published a manifesto s~gned by .more th!n twenty intellectuals denyi~g th~~ there bas b~en a maas exodus. Both the.bro~dcast and· lt\lde P:r:a-vo statement. are probably 
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de_'s~gned to calm' down the jit.t.ery populace. The US Er.\bassy reported yes~erd~y .that· A Conside~able number of intelleotuals 
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and.news media representatives are preparin~ to qo unde~ground
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. . 	qr· leave the .country." (See Situation Report as of 0700, 1· September) · In adaition, Deputy Interior Ministo~ Jan ZA:ruba 
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rep~rted~y has conwitted suicide rather than work wit~ the
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4. some Czochoslovaks,·meanwhile, ·continue to question
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the value of the Moscow ~g~eel)1ent, : Radio Czechoslovakia this . rnorni~g. P.binted out that thus far all the compromises have · 'been .mad~ by Pr~9ue and critioised. the Soviet Union for not 
· a.'biding by the agreetAent:' ~ provision that I-10scow would not
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· interfere in Czechoslovakia'a internal affairs. · tiid·ova : ne:mokr·a·o·ie ;· the· People•s ~arty ; paper, 'succinctly awnmarized ·; the situation by pointing·to the vicious circle a~g"Wdent that · 
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troops wiil not leave until ~he.&~tuation •normalizes,-and 
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the situation will riot; normalize until the troops le~ve. 
s. ·~oviet ~orpea ~ontinue eo atamp out Caeohoalovak 
media resisting the occupation. A transmitter in Bohemia 

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curta~~ed it~ acti~~ties on l September, infor~Ai~g its listeners 
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·that -=fo:i.eign troops0· bad occupied the stat.ion. ~ Slovakian 
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· ·· 	p~rtY. newspaper· stQpped distribution to(lay followi:r'9 Soviet. m~l~tary censorshiP; of a :"number Of articles." irhe .soviets 
are still pu~sui?9 their castigation o~ Lit~ra~ni Listy, whoso 
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I. 	. -~ffices reportedly .were sacked on 29 A~gust.followi~g its 
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·publication .9n its. OWn rather than: submit to.censorship• 
.1· 6.. Tbe ~is~p~earll.llc:e of Czechoslovak news o~gan~ is now being ·accompanied by the en\ergence of soviet-controlled ones •:~, 
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Russian aol~ier.a_ dr1ove thro~gh I?r~gue on 31 A~gust dlstributi~g. 
free copies of an! oce.up;at.ion netrspape:t:,· zprayx (News). Also, 
· . ~he ·sovict-con~roi1eci clandestine radio; the "Workers Voice of
1_··th~ . nepu~i~!?," c~lled· for a p~ge of all those who "oomn\itted , .actions ~f;iin~t th~ party in the Novotny era.u 7 • !l'l10 Soviets are now maJ:i-!19 public references. to Dubcek on. their news mediA. Dubcek was considered. by "tr1orlters Voice•' to-" have the "confiden_ce» of the C2iechoalovalt party. 
·DuJ;>cek also .appeare~ ·ori Moscow television for the first time, shown seated al6~~ side .of ~voboda at the Mosoow·talks. Meanwhile, the Soviets have.made no mention of the~r own leade%­ship recently, other !than ~rief remarks deacribi?9 the pUblic 
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appearances o~ tw~ r1r8t Deputy Pretr1U.ers., Mazurov· and Polyana)c; • 
.. a.' Moscow is telli?g its own z:eadership that counter­
revolutionary forces are still active in Czechoslovakia, thus 
jus~ifti~g a continuea need for the occupation. On the other 
hand, a P~avda commentary aescribi~g opposition to the occupation 
·by other Communist partiesimade n~ reference to ~~ther 
'Yugoslavi·a or: >luntani~'9 . 'l'his may'.be the first in4ioation, albeit
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·a tenuou~ one,,,t~at l4oscow, is tryi?9 to stop rumors r~gardi?9 still anothe~ _Wars~w·Pact invasion• 
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13. The Czechoslovak central conwittee~ which apparently .· . ended its de.libaratio~a this morni~9', heard party leader o.ubcek 
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it. . • that~ill ·~ot· live up to the Noscow ~greemen~. H& noted that · 
in the past Pr~gue ,had not su£fieiently taken into account the 
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v~ews of Moscow.: 
i•. In a· tacit admission that the party's reform pr?qram may be ov•r,iDubcek stated that the str&te9ic and general
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intere~t~ of Mosc~w and its allies im~aG •:ea.l, objec~~vely existi?g, and limt~tp9 factor•• for the •pace· and form" of 
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Czechoslovakia's ~olitical ~evelopment. In.goneral, Dubcek's spe.~ch; pr.ovides further evidencE• that Pr~gue has boen forced to accept Mosco~'s directives.concernin9 its internal.affairs despito the Moscow ~gl:eement, 
lS. No~ethelessr the .central conwittee did select a new 
· 	party· pre~idium which· aP,parently is laFgely pr~gressivo or moderate in qomJ?OSition. : t>olitical labels, however, may no lo~9er mean as much as th~y did before the inter~ention. Of the 21 pre.sidi~m members. (an_ increase of .ten}, l3 wer~ nan\ed 
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on. 22 A~gpst'·and was su}?sequently denounced as "ill~galby Moscow. The communique :s~ggests, as did an earlier speecb by Dubcek, that the ·party .iha.s deoided to set aside the :r:esults :;, of the 14th Co?gress • . 
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