SECRET 
OCI 10758/68 
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY 
Directorate or I11telligen.co 
· 30 August 1968 
INTELLIGENCE MEMORANDUM The Situa.tion in Czechoslova.kia. 
(As o·l 1630 EDT) 
1. Dubcek bas called for fil meeting of the pre-invasion Czechoslovak party central committee tomorrow, 31 August, to elect ·a ·l\eW presidium, according· to unconfirmed Western 
press ·repo1•ts. Dubcek's acti.on implicitly repudiates 
-th~ progressive cent1~al committee e~ect~d by the extra.ordinary 
~4t~ party congress which convened secretly during the occu­pation. It is u11known still just what the opposition may 
be to this' move by Dubcek, which wa.s p1•obably taken to 
satisfy the Soviets. 2, .Tl'le Western press reports that Russian security forces in Prague a':'e taking over key posts in important 
minis_t~ies. Several libe1•al mint·sters, including Minister 
of Interior Pa.vel, an said to be 1•eady to resign. 
3, Diplomatic sources in Belgrade reported toda.y tha.t ·· . Deputy · Czec.boslovaklPremier Ota Sik will awa.it the settlement of 
the new government in P,..ague before he returns home. According 
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been a primo target of Soviet at­
feora abduction or arrest i.f he goes back 
to Prague now. 
4. App"rently most Czochoslova.k radio broadcRsts are now being mado by regular pre-invasion workers a.nd censor­ship is in effect. Czechoslovak Radio Danube today, however, .deRtanded the ..withdrawal of ti•oops from radio and TV buildings 
.. and som.e new~paper-.offices that are still occupied, FBIS 
~eports that technical indicators seem to suggest that two 
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statJ.ons broadcasting a pro-Soviet line are actually located 
in East Germany a.nd ~oland rather than in Czec~oslovakia as · 
w.aa previous~y reported. 
5. Radio 'Czechoslovakia today broadca.st a statemertt of 
the Central Committee of the National F1·ont asking the 
government to negottaie an agreeme"t to insure the ·departure 
of foreign armed forces so that "the full sovereignty of our 
state is re~toredt'' in tl. ta.cit recogniti.on that t-he occu­
~ation .ma.y last indefinHely. however, the National Front 
also !"ins·1sted. unconcl1 uonally" on non-interference in 
czechoelovak internal affairs by occupying forces. 
6, There has boen no substantial change detected in the 
stat.UH of Warsaw Pact.· toroas 111 and around CZechoalovakia 
today, 
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