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CENTRl\l, IN'l'EM,,IGENCE AGENCY ·1>~1·o·l~t.ul·nl.c c:>r l11t:ulliu-<.!11cu . 29 A'-l&:;'Uli t 1968 
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The Situa.tion in CzcchoslovLlkia (As of 1130 EDT) 
l. Li torarni Listy, the journnl of CzechoRlcwalt wr i. tera, 
this morning.publishod an.inflammatory nrticle denouncing the 
Soviet led occupu tion. l;hc leadcrH or l;ho !ivc um:\\))Y i llJ{ 
powers, .and the Moscow ngrecincnt. Th«? article, wrHt~n. by 
Jan Proc1\azl~a, . a long-time tnrgct of. Soviat critics, tcrn1~d 
the•.Soviet ~ctiona "Cossack diploma·cy" .a11d ca1led on the 

·Czcpltoslovak people Rot to a._ccept tho Moscow "compromiso''. 
It 'also appealed· to ,"~~1tollectuals ot t11e woi;ld". to boy-_ 
cott every ne,t1011 .or tho occupiers. Tho .s,ensational article: 
~.t .tho lonst will bo .cHod by Moscow a~ ovid<mce thnt 
"counter-revolutionaries" nro still nbrond in Prague, irncl 

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is ce~tai~ t~ lead t~ demands•th~t the journal and its edi t.ora be suppressed~ Moscow may demand even more, .u1d · ,,.. the nr·ticle moy .forco ·D\Jbc~k to •:rl\ck dowt"t on ~ho prcse ncdin harder and quicker ·tha·n he 111ight have wished. 
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2 • .c~andes~1ne rndi~ stations in CZechoslovnkia 
gradunl.ly ,are i.ruln.,:.drr tho a.Jr, oitJ1or volunlaJ•J.ly m· nr; 

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0£ Soviet pres,,µros. A st~tiot\ i.n Nortll Slovakih 
reluctantly transmi~tpd a tnrowell this moTning, stat1ng that 
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.. the regular Slovak. s tationa. hnve· now rosum~d operat 1ollt:;, 
alboit under "vory ditficu.lt condition11"--a possl.ble ·reference 

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· to ~ direct Soviot. int~rferonce or CzochoRl.ovak. cel\aors. 
·~nother station in south Moravia was silenced last night, 

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and a Sov~.ot-orig:t:nated br0Rdcn11t appnrontly usod its !roquency. 
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· Al\othe.r station· la,bo.lling it1:10U' tl\O "Workers Voicti of f:ho 
Republio"--doubtless Soviet-controliod--attacked the 
.-loyalists stat;ions ·this morn11'g aa beil\ll in tho hands of 

reactionarios and revisioni~ts. 
3. Czechoslovakia's borders with AuRtria and tho GDR 
are apparently stili open to ro~urning CZechoR~ovaks. Borders 

with Hun.'111ry aro ope\\ except at; two points• 
.._~~~..,......,...,~~~__JICSS~ cfiockpoints along tho Austrian border 
were still. being ·"'"nnod bf. CZec:hoslovak guards ~s or i:odny •. 
·Tho Russians, however, hnvo set up their own 'postt:t.about 100 
.meterJ insldo 'the border,.nnd have consiste~tly turnod back non­
Czechoslovak vehicles allowed to·ontor by tf\e cssa border 
guards. AP reports today that &Ast oorman oonupa tion :rorces 

have ~eal.od oft. a zone l!IGVOrlll mile& deop MOUtll Of tho Czocho­
·~ovak-BaB~· Qoraan bordor. They are preventing all Czachoslovak 
.~r~cks from ent~rin1 tbia zone. T~o czechoa~ovak Foreign 
Blnlatry ha~ 1n•tructed its poet• in w..torn Burop• to ur1e 
CCecbOalovak citlao\\11 to return home, but to srant oxit 

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demand. ·. l11d1:v1dual retugoo caasos aro to be recordod but not report-~d.' 

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f rQm the ·western USSR. 
obs~rved.Sovict ~rtille~y pioces guarded by Soviot troops 

on ar train. in eatStern Hungary. If the ai1hting is· v.alid ~t is possible that theHo elements are from the carpathiDn Military D1~tr1ct ~nd nro intonded aa roplacomentH Co~ 
Soviot units· tha~ have doployed ~~ CZocboalovakla• 
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c~ec~1oslovak. cltizens contim.\G to be told to koop 
their distance from occupying forces. Today's edition of 

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the CzecboslovAk party paper Rude ~car.r!;es. an interviow 
wlth Defense Jdinister Dzur w~o warnfi aga~nst small provocn.­
,. t.~onr~ wl,ich h\itiht l!lut ut:f hugo oon.Uag1·ntlons, ncmul"d lny to Radio Czecho~lova~ia. Tho ,.Do.fonsc M111i.1:1te.1· roport.edl y states t.11at; he has 0is1:1uo~ no new order~ to the armed· forces ''espoc:J,ally .s11,c~..·tho five Warsaw Pact powers at.upped attempting 
to di~arm Czechoslo-vak units." 
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