(SANITIZED)WORLD COMMUNIST AFFAIRS(SANITIZED)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-03061A000400010004-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 24
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 28, 2012
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: September 12, 1966
• Content Type: REPORT

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Signi f icunt Dates 1
[ASTERISK denotes ANNIVERSARIES. All others are CURRENT EVENTS]
24 African seminar on political, social and economic problems, sponsored by
communist magazine PROBLEMS OF PEACE AND SOCIALISM end AL-AHRAM in Cairo.
Same 50 "national and progressive" African political party leaders said
to be invited.
29 Constituent Council of the Muslim World League. Saudi Arabia.
-- International Scientific Session on the International Significance of the
Great October Socialist Revolution. Sponsored by the USSR Academy of
Sciences. (presumably in Moscow.)
NOV
-- Asian Regional Meeting of GANEFO (Games of the New Emerging Forces) Phnom
Penh. GANEFO was conceived mainly by now discredited President Sukarno.
I* Hungarian Revolt (I-4). 1956. TENTH ANNIVERSARY.
4~ Greek Civil War ends with Communists acknowledging defeat. 1949.
7* Bolshevik October Revolution. 1917.
9* Cambodia declares independence from France, 1953.
10~ Communist World Youth Day celebrates founding of WFDY. 1945.
II
Communist International Student Week celebrated by IUS (II-17).
12~'
Sun Yat-sen, first President China, barn. 1866, IOOth ANNIVERSARY. (Dies
12 March 1925).
12
International Conf. on War-Danger and Disarmament. Sponsored by All India
Peace Council, Indian Assoc. for Afro-Asian Solidarity, and World Peace
Council (communist). 12-19 Nov in New Delhi.
14*
(Unequal) Treaty of Peking cedes Chinese "Great Northeast" to Russia. 1860.
14*
Jawaharlal Nehru born. 1889.
'15~
Bolsheviks proclaim "Declaration of the Rights of the Peoples of
Russia"
affirming principle of self-determination of national minorities.
- 1917.
19~
Milovan Djilas arrested. 1956. TENTH ANNIVERSARY. [Sentenced to prison
12 December. ]
20~'
U:S.~~i.i:fts~navai,quaranti:ne of Cuba. 1962.
30*
USSR attacks Finland. 1939.
DEC
I* Sergey Kirov, Communist leader, assassinated, Leningrad. 1934. [Note
that show trials of the "19" (15-16 Jan 1935) and the "16" (19-24 Aug
1936) took place roughly 17 years after communist seizure of power: Red
Chinese purges are in same period of CCP rule.]
2~' U.S. achieves first controlled nuclear reaction, Univ of Chicago. 1942.
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SOVIETS REtVDER MEDIA SUPPORT TO GUINEA. According- to a recent TASS
dispatch, the GoVernme'hts of Guinea and the Soviet Union have signed an
agreement'calli`ng'for Soviet assistance to the Guinean Information..
Services. A Soviet embassy official in Conakry was quoted as saying the
USSR would supply'Guinea with film protectors and also with equipment
for ,making their own films,. and at least four automobiles for use by the
Information Services. `The total amount of the grant is 100.;000"r'ubles:.
(uncl'a'ssifiied)
''PEKING PEOPLE'S DAILY CUTS SfZE. Jenmin Jih~ Pao (People's Daily);
Red China s leading newspaper; has announced that effective I September
its size will be reduced from six to four pages. (unclassified)
FUNCTIONS OF EAST GERMAN NEWS AGENCY (ADN). The legal gazette of
East Germany (Gesetzblatt der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik) far
22 July 1966 carried a new decree concerning ADN (the offiicial GDR news
agency). It confirms that ADN is the official. GDR news and photo ser-
vice, and that it is subordinate to the Central Committee ofi the 5ED
(Socialist l)nity Party, a euphemism for the East German Communist Party).
I't also stresses its Communist propaganda functions: "Through its news
service i n word and p i cture ADN contri bu~-es toward _:deveJ_pp i,ng a,n.d
strengthening socialist consciousness...." Another function specifically
mentioned is that of assistiing'-the news agencies of new countries by
providing them with technical equipment and training. (Unclassified)
[See also Media Lines for 9 May 1966 on Neues Deatschland, attached to
CHICOMS AIDING TANZANIAN NATIONAL RADIO SYSTEM. The Chicoms are
building a shortwave transmitting station for Radio Tanzania, and are
furnishing technicians and equipment for it. The Tanzanian Minister of
Information and Tourism recently visited the construction site and
commended the Chinese workers and technicians for the speed with which
the project is going forward and for the rapid progress made in the
traiming of Tanzanians. (unclassified)
c r r n r T (MF~IA. I INFS CnNT_
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CHICOMS REPORTED MOVING NCNA EUROPEAN CENTRAL OFFICE TO VIENNA.
According to Die Presse, fielding Vienna daily, the Chicoms have been
trying since March to purchase a small:pr;inting p,lant;and_to.rent~about
60 rooms for editorial personnel in order to transfer the Western
European headquarters of New China News Agency (NCNA) from London to
Vienna. One reason for the proposed move is thought to be the
easier propaganda access from Vienna to the Eastern European Communist
regimes. Chicom propaganda operations in Eastern Europe have been
largely from Switzerland, but during the past year the Swiss authorities
have increas~i~:ngly restricted Chicom propaganda activities.
Die Presse comments that (a) the Soviets have at their disposal
the modern printing and publishing facilities of the Globus Publishing
House, which is owned by the pro-Soviet Austrian Communist Party; (b)
to date the Chicom efforts to esta