CHANGES IN THE CZECHOSLOVAK GOVERNMENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00415R003200020013-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 5, 2001
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: June 24, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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CEN rRAL K , ? l EL..WGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
INFORMATION REEPOIRT CD NO.
SUBJECT Chances in the Czechoslovak GovornmDnt
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Dra Vavro Sro ;ar,,
Minister of Unification of Llaws, was asked by the Czechoslovak Government
to invite Josko David, form r Chair n of the Czechoslovak Parli r exit, and 25X1 A
Frana Zeminova, a member of the National Socialist Party,. to subnit sin-ge, ti.oi
for a now cabinet w. ich would be acceptable to the astern powers,.* Zeni ov,
is understood to have declined the invitation, Tfrhile David's decision had i:,oer,
unannounced up to 20 1 by 1949. It is further reported that Dra Josef Kalfus
Minister of Finance during this agar iaho was dimisaod by the Comaunists after
the war, and Dra Karl Dnglis, former Rector of Charles University, had been 25X1 A
invited on 16 }lay 1949 to attend a secret economic meeting in Prague
companies in Prague, the seat of the Czechoslovak Gcrrernrlont is --noving to Xo o
and the secretariat of the Czechoslovak Communist Party to }lorav3ka Oet:ravn..
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3,: it has been reported by t~-at llu:-_ l
the xieek of 16 May 1949 the archives of the Ministry of Interior sere i ovct' c
Prague to Kosice, and the archives of the secretariat of the Czoehoolovaaty
nist Pc.rtyto foravs1 Ostrava, On the night of 19 T'hay the archives of the istzy of Foreign Affairs care rerortedly roved f rou :Pm uc to an u knoiin l.bca r .
Co:r . ent 3 This in ormition is vietjed as an attom nt ay the Czc choslot . is
vernment to to attract to its service "e--orientated politicians in an .:f-
fort to ir-:prove the government t s economic relations rith the `.res l-u
** Comma The movement of important archives frog Prague mmiy be an incp
ca I on that the government wiehes to conceal secret documents frar.1 the a ?c
mentioned western-orientated politicans should they accept goverment, 1 o at 7.:
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