BLOC MEETING IN MOSCOW

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79R00890A001200020006-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 7, 1998
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: February 1, 1960
• Content Type: BRIEF

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Eastern European Foreign Ministers began meeting in Moscow
1 February to prepare for 4 February meeting of Political
Consultative Committee of Warsaw Pact, which will also be at-
tended by all Defense Ministers.
A. An agricultural meeting--originally announced reason for
the assemblage--opened on 2 February attended by 911
Eastern European Premiers and Party First Secretaries.
B. North Koreans and Mongolians already attending agricultural
meetings as observers; Chinese, who apparently uninterested
in agricultural meetings,'are sending observers to Warsaw Pact
affair
1. Level of theses dele-ation suggests Chinese see dis-
cussions as largely of European significance.
Ii. This is first such high level assemblage of Warsaw Pact since
May 1958; appears to have been called in some haste; timing
probably due Khrushchev's heavy schedule.
A. 1958 meeting used as forum for announcing withdrawal of
Soviet forces from Rumania, reduction Soviet forces in Huh-
gary and troop reductions by Satellites.
B. Also at this meeting Khrushchev made his only explicit warning
that missile bases might be set up in East Germany, Czech-
oslovakia and Poland to counter NATO moves.
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III. Khrushchev probably called current meetings to provide forum
for demonstrating bloc solidarity during pre-summit period on
Soviet proposals for disarmament,` Berlin, and a German peace
treaty.
IV. At conclusion Bloc leaders likely to announce readiness to
take appropriate military measures in Eastern Europe--possibly
including a request for stationing Soviet forces with rockets on
their territories--to counter West Germany's alleged policy of
nuclear rearmament; also
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A.
B.
USSR's decision to reduce its armed forces will probably
be endorsed.
Plans probably also will be considered for what Khrushchev
described as a "pro-
portionate" reduction in Soviet forces in Eastern Europe.
C. Conference may also announce proposed cuts in Eastern
European forces .
D. Important internal Bloc matters probably also being dis-
cussed.
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