• Department of State TELEGRAM t..IMITED OFFICIAL : USE PAGE 02 BERLIN 02112 211815Z 3Q "UNFORTUNATELY1" THE STATEMENT SAID1 A GROUP IN THE CSCP · PRESIDIUM LED BY Ao DUBCEK "HAO NOT · F'UL.FILLEO iTs PLEDGE · AND HAD STRENGTHENED I TS C0 URSE T0 THE R .I G HT.• TH IS. GROUP '. KEPT THE BRATISL~VA AGREEMENTS SECRET ' FROM THE MEMBERS OF THE PARTY ANO THE ' POPULATION• IT HVPOCRIT!CALLIV ENDORSED THE AGREEMENTS IN . PUBLIC ' BUT AT . THE $.AME TI ME ALLOWED ANTI-SOCIALIST . FORCES T0 1 CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE REALIZATION OF THE .· BRATlSLAVA DECLARATION•" DURlNG T~E KARLOVY VARY TALKS T~E' CZECHOSLOVAK DELEGATION ' REFUSED STUBBORNLY TO IMPLEMENT THE BRATISLAVA AGREEMENTS~ -e AFTER REHASHING ITS CRITICISM ' OF . THE SITUATION WITHIN CZECH0SL0VAKIA1 THE EAST GERMAN STATEMENT SET FORTH A JUSTlFICATION FOR THE INTERVENTION IN MILlTARY TERMS• "A LOOK AT THE MAP WILL MAKE EVERY CITlZEN OF THE GOR UNDERST ANO THAT 1 FOR DUR REPUBLIC AND FOR THE OTHER ' SOC I AL I ST ' COUNTRIES AN UNACCEPTABLE SI TUA Tl ON WOULD · BE ' CREATED IF ANTl•SOCIALIST FORCES1 ESPECIALLV THOSE INSPIRED BY WEST GERMAN IMPERIALISM1 HAO BEEN ABLE TO CARRY ON THEIR COUNTER• REVOLUTIONARY ACTIVITY FROM THE SOUTH •• THAT 1s· ON OUR FLANK•" So FOLLOWING FURTHER RATlONALIZATION1 THE i STATEMENT SAID "THE W0 R KER S 0 F' THE GERMAN 0 EM 0 CR AT I C REP UBL 1I C· L0 VE THE' INDUSTRIOUS AND EFFICIENT . PEOPLE ' OF BOHEMiA AND SLOVAKIA"••• "THE PEOPLE OF THE cssR HAVE NOT ' DESERVED TO BE PUT iN SUCH A DANGER BY UNPRINClPLED POLlTICIANS"•••"WE OFFER OUR FRATERNAL HAND TO THE TRUE SOCIALIST FORCES1 THE WORKING CLASS1 THE FARMERS1 THE PROGRESS1VE INTELLIGENTSIA AND ALL WORKERS OF NEIGHBOR I NG ' CZECHOSLOVAK I A• . 60 COMMENT• SICKENING AS IT IS, THE STATEMENT ODES · REVEAL ; MORE THAN WE HAVE PREVlOUSLV KNOWN ABOUT WH~T WENT ON AT' BRATISLAVA ANO l