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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-01617A006100060042-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 30, 2008
• Sequence Number: 42
• Publication Date: February 11, 1950
• Content Type: SUMMARY

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GENERAL
1. US views on anti,-US restrictions by Satellites--The Depart-
ment of State has expressed to US Embassy Prague, in an
analysis of current US-Satellite relations, the view that
recent anti-US restrictions in Czechoslovakia are part of
a general pattern under "central direction'' with the intent
of reducing. Satellite contacts with the West to an absolute
minimum, The Department suggests that if this interpreta-
tion is correct, a stormy period ahead may be anticipated,
with added difficulties and obstruction in Czechoslovakia and
the other Satellite countries and a consequent deterioration
in US -Satellite :relations, The Department declares that in
devising tactics to counter this attempt to reduce US opera-
tions or possibly to drive the US out of Czechoslovakia, the
paramount objective must be to maintain contact with the
Czechoslovak people, The Department points out that this
consideration may make the US reluctant on occasion to take
strong action which might seriously impair this contact.
State Dept. review completed
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