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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-03061A000200050001-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 45
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 31, 1998
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: January 13, 1964
• Content Type: REPORT

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13 January 1954
Czech Communist Regime Claims Divine Sanction
A Czechoslovak' theological lecturer told the 19th quadrennial
Ecumenical Student Conference at Ohio University on 29 December
that he believes Czechoslovakia came under Communist rule through
divine intervention. This lecturer talks of the "deepening hu-
manism in Marxist thinking" and suggests that Christians should
seek to help rather than to undermine the Marxists in Czechos,oa,M i
He says, "We can strengthen them by our firmness and our faith-
fulness in our Christian beliefs, by our solidarity, by our under...
standing and by our love." The speaker is one aev. Milan
OPOCENSIcY, a professor of protestant Theology at Comenius Theo-
logical Seminary in Prague. /New York Times of 31 Dec 63; press
Comment7
'professor Opocensky called the Communist seizure of power in
194-3 "The logical consequence of a long historica1nrocess which
is certainly rooted in the strong and well organized working class
movement, and which is undoubtedly connected with the epoch of
national rebirth, of the Counter-Reformation, of the unity of the
Czech Brethern, and of the Hussite Revolution of the 15th century.
--- I am convinced that the Socialist line of 1948 means an or-
ganic step in the history of my country, that it was not a devi-
ation from the so-called normal course of history and that it did
not wreck God's plans."
Czechoslovakia has been for years the center for manipulating
Churches and religious lay groups in all Soviet Satellites and in
contacts with the free world. The Czechs send sizeable delega-
tions to most international religious gatherings, such as those
to assemblies of the World Council of Churches (WCC), headed by
Dr. Josef L. I-?ROK4DKA, Dean of the Comenius Theological Seminary:
in 1943 to Amsterdam; in 1954 to Evanston, Illinois where he
clashed in open debate with the late John Foster Dulles; and in
1961 to the third, in New Delhi. One of Dr. Hromadka's assistant:
the aforementioned Opocensky, concentrates on youth activities and
was the Czech "youth delegate" at the New Delhi conference. Ile
participated in the.. one-week youth assembly which preceded the
New Delhi Congress and lived in the international youth camp.
Opocensky was the main author of the document which had been
drafted in Prague on ""peace and Youth." Finally, the "All Chris-
tian Peace Conference" in Prague in 1961 stressed the importance
of approaching the youth of the churches in the West and neutral
countries "to infiltrate from inside."
We are not opposed to contacts between the Church groups in
the Bloc and those in the Free World per se. However, Nye expose
known Communists (Bloc regimes allow bey ithe politically relia-
ble to travel repeatedly to the Free World), masquerading as
Churchmen, and misusingive religious groups to help
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promote Communist peace campaigns, "peaceful co-existence," etc.
We say that, while Free World religious conferences can afford
a hearing and even an air of respectability (New York Times
reporting) for such themks as "Marxist humanism,' Marais original
concepts and the methods of Communist rule are obviously incom-
patible.
We draw attention to Communist infiltration and misuse of
Free 17orld religious forums pointing out that arguments coming
fro,a such persons are primarily political and not bona fide re-
ligious concerns.
Jane's On Space
A Nevi or; Times story of 18 December 1933 (press Comment
13 December l 63 no ed that in the latest issue of Jane All
the World's Aircraft, published in London, the editor JM7ged
that the Soviets had lagged in air and space in 1963. John F.R.
Taylor, the editor of the authoritative, non-go6?ernnental. ,rQ.~.
ference boon, called attention to reported deficients,in Soviet
aircraft delivered to India and Ghana, and commented that in
terms of day-to-day aviation service, "the Soviet picture looks
less self-assured than it did at the end of 1962." In the field
of space, Taylor pointed out that the Soviet "space-twin"flights
of Valeriy F. Bykovsky and Valentina V. Tereshkova apparently
failed to achieve all their objectives (which may have included
a space rendezvous), and that the Soviets lost contact with
their Mars probe before it could provide information about that
planet. Gordon Cooper's 22-orbit flight, on the other hand, ex-
ceeded its original objectives, and the Mariner-2 probe to Venus
produced valuable information. Taylor added that when the US
Caturn booster becomes operational in 1964-1965, American activi-
ties in space may become "more adventurous": "the suggestion
that America,,.and the Soviet Union should worm together on major
projects like lunar exploration is both timely and sensible now
that the prospective partners are attaining a measure of equality.'
The Times story also noted that Jane's had one new Soviet
plane to report: a 1akovlev high-altitude reconnaissance plane
(NATO code name: Mandrake) which is the Soviet counterpart of
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Bertrand Fussell Returns Medal Bestowed Ey East German peace
Committee
Earl Russell, British pacifist and leading world figure in
left-wino "peace" campaigns, announced on 7 January that he is
returning a medal awarded to him by the East German affiliate
of the World peace Council (V'PC) because Heinz Brandt, a social-
ist and democrat, remains a political prisoner in East Germany.
Russell said that he had been appealing privately to the East
German regime on Brandt's behalf for two years but is "abandoning
private appeals, for they have come to nothing." "I wish to
urge public protest against the intolerable condition of Brandt's
imprisonment.:'
A veteran Communist, Brandt spent 11 years in Nazi concen-
tration camps. After 1945, he worked in the CP propaganda de-
partment in East Berlin. He was purged for "deviationism" in
195--. In 1953, the Brandt family, which included three small
children, fled to West Germany. Brandt became editor of a West
German trade union paper. He flew to West Berlin in June 19-651
to cover a congress for his paper but vanished. A wee' later
the East German news agency ADN announced that he had been ar-
rested as a Western agent. Following a secret trial by the East
German Supreme Court, a 13-year prison sentence was announced
on May 19, 1952.
Brandt's disappearance (he apparently was kidnapped from
`lest Berlin) and sentence were protested in many resolutions
and appeals, especially on the part of international trade union
organizations -- and indeed the protests that followed his dis-
appearance may have prevented the meting out of the death sen-
tence. Bertrand Russell's protest action is of special signi-
ficance: as a world-renowned philosopher and "peace partisan"
he often condemns Western policies but rarely finds fault with
conditions in or actions of the Communist countries, be it
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DATES OF PROPAG:.NDA .NTMEST
JNGA ad';ptc rest) :iatit . :sty x a. , % Aaeae Communist aggression
In Itorea, 1951,
1 SSi, and. CPr. n-ign treaty of alliance rep=ud ? r ting ,ov1et'-
W.tionelist Treaty (14 August 1945), 19-50,
of 11J. (or st. Petersburg) re darning most o Sinkiang
to China but gz!anting portion to Rusata, 1881.
Kk- ut hrshev deuounces Stalin, in s=ecret speech at CPSU 20th
Congress,, 14-25 Pet. 1956.
i~ r .P+e Imprison leader of Smallhoide:r : Pa tty G 13a?x :Ko r& s;
to dest:(?,ay major anti-Communist o .psi io .,
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'2- C?)n:, of Youth and Students for Disarmament, Peace,
and National independence (WFDY sponsored), Florence, Italy;
-s;b.edu7c-A for 26 Feb-1 Mar, 1964.
7 delivers "P.undred Flowers" ;pe, :.?,h, 2
2 Mar "'I`riz t f the 1" charging attempt to restorF capi i; .1i.sm by
Sukharin, RyL tv *nd Yagoda et a1, 1.8 tsertvn-ced. to
2-13 March 1938.
5 Mar Joseph Stalir. 3i6: (born 21 Dec 1879). 1953.
8 Mai Ra s'si*, --- : ar t try R&vvolution (Jul: