STAFF NOTES: SOVIET UNION EASTERN EUROPE

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 11
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 7, 2002
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: October 1, 1975
• Content Type: REPORT

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SOVIET UNION ? EASTERN EUROPE
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CclNTliNTS
October 23, 1975
Soviets Again Express Interest
in Indian Ocean Arms Control. . . . . . . . . .
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The "Other" Soviet Nobel
Prize Winner Is Praised
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Soviet Military Aid Feeler to Indonesia . . . . .
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Poland: Police Act
Against Black Marketeers. . . . . . . . . . . . 8
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:J'oviets Ar 'I in t.x )resu InLeresL
in in an Ocean Arms Control.
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Moscow it; again hinting that it might: be will-
ing to engage in bilateral talks on Indian ocean
naval limitati.ons. On October 16, the head of the
USA Institute, Guorgy Arbatov, told Congressman
Vanik that General Secretary Br(: hncv personally
supported talks on the issue. Arbatov said that
last duly tire; hnev would have endor:;cd talks if the
subject hac: come up during the General Secretary's
meeting with the conrjre:;sional delegation led by
Senators liwnphrey and Scott.
The Senators were in Moscow at the time of the
congressional debate on appropriations for the ex-
pansion of )tego Garcia, and when the Senators first
broached the subject with lower level Soviet offi-
cials, the Soviets were evasive. Party secretary
and candidate politburo member Ponomarev, for ex-
ample, responded to the Senators' queries by list-
ing Soviet arms control proposals dating back to
1946 and accusing the US of trying to justify a
huge buildup just because the USSR had sailed into
the Indian Ocean.
Several days later, however, Arbatov told one
of the Senators that the Soviets were "of course"
interested in talking to the US about naval limita-
tions in the Indian Ocean. Arbatov gave no indi-
cation, however, that he had checked first with
Brezhnev.
Despite the view attributed to Brezhnev, Mos-
cow clearly is not pushing to get negotiations
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ne , two o :ter mem ern of ? to USA lnut -
tute told D].11 Director Graham that Soviet policy on
thin question wan "unclear. "
The US11 officials confirmed, however, that
Arbatov'n remarks to the US Senators in duly had
the "highest clearance." They reminded General
Graham that the Soviets had taken "small prig;;xte
stops before" toward the US and that the US had not
responded. This is probab,Ly a reference to an ex-
change in 1971 when Hoscow first broached the i'iea
of a joint understanding limiting naval deployments
in the Indian Ocean, but never followed up when the
US responded four months later. Moscow's failure
to do no suggests that the USSR's arms control ad-
vocates encountered considerable bureaucratic re-
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The "Other" Soviet Nobel
Pr ze nner. I-s IIraised
The first- Soviet press reaction to thy, co-award
of the Nobel economics prize to academician Leonia
Kantorovich indicates that the regime has decided to
look kindly at Kantorovich's now prominence even
while it continues its campaign against Nobel Peace
Prize winner Andrey Sakharov.
On October 22, two days after the chief editor
of the writers union weekly Literary Gazette blasted
Sakharov at a public press conference in Moscow, the
journal published a flattering interview with
Kantorovich that played up his academic work and
implied that the regime approved his Nobel prize.
This treatment probably presages approval for
Kantorovich to travel to Stockholm for the December
10 award ceremony.
Kantorovich, a reform-minded but officially
respected member of the establishment, shares the
Nobel award with Dutch-born US economist Koopmans,
with whom he cooperated in his work. Kantorovich
is quoted in the interview as stressing the con-
tinuity of his work since 1939 and the applicability
of his concepts of optimum allocation of resources
to both capitalist and socialist economies. He made
obeisance to the role of the party and to Marxist-
Leninist precepts, and noted that the 24th CPSU Con-
gress of 1971 called for the "wider use of economic-
mathematical methods" in national economic planning.
The regime's choice of the same vehicle--
Literary Gazette--for juxtaposing its praise of
Kantorovich with direct attacks on Sakharov emphasizes
the sharp difference Moscow sees in the implications
of the two Nobel awards. The Kremlin probably be-
lieves that decoupling Kantorovich's Nobel prize from
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the problem of Sakharov will give it (greater leeway
in deciding how to resolve the lat:tCr issue.
,akharov, who said last Monday that he has applied
for a round-trip visa to the peace prize presentation
ceremony in Oulo--also on December 10--is probably
now most anxious to see whether his wife will. be
permitted to return home at the and of the month
after eye surgery in Italy. The answer could give a
clue as to how Moscow intends to handle the case of
the dissident physicist.
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Soviet Military Aid Peeler to Indonesia
Moscow has broached the subject of military
aid with Indonesia for the first time in yearn.
The Soviet bid was rejected, an the Soviets doubt-
less anticipated it would be, but it is symptomatic
of Moscow's desire for better relations.
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i ary aid to Indonesia since 1965; Indonesia
now gets all of its military assistance from the
West.
Moscow may have been encouraged to act because
there has been a modest improvement in relations
over the past year. Indonesia's Foreign Minister
Malik visited Moscow last December and signed a
general economic aid agreement--the USSR's first
with the Suharto regime. Under the terms of the
agreement, the Soviets will provide credits for a
number of small Indonesian development projects,
and within the next few months the Soviets are
expected to sign a contract to build the first of
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Poland: Police Act
Aga ns ac ar eteers
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only increase current tension.
Polish authorities have long tolerated sub rosy
marketing activities and a harsh clampdown would
In an apparent effort to squelch the activities
of black marketeers and hoarders, police officials
in Katowice last month reportedly raided an open air
arket and confiscated goods worth 1.5 million zloty.
the police
found substantial quantities of stolen goods and
arrested "numerous" individuals.
There have been no other reports of police raids
in Poland. Local Polish officals will undoubtedly
take decisive action against the most blatant, but
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