STAFF NOTES: SOVIET UNION EASTERN EUROPE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP86T00608R000400090038-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 12
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 26, 2004
• Sequence Number: 38
• Publication Date: July 22, 1975
• Content Type: REPORT

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Soviet Union
Eastern Europe
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USSR-Angola: All the Way with the MPLA.
Another Vacancy in Soviet
Cultural Bureaucracy 6
CHRONOLOGY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
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USSR-Angol,+: All the Way with the MPLA
Recent subs' rat.';inl Soviet arms doliverios to the
Popular MMovement, for the Li bn? r'atiou of Ar-gola and
harsher pr ss troai=int of the rival Wrtions,l Front
indicate that Mcsco',r is more firmly carting its lot
with the Movement.
Soviet mi litary shipments since May have included
trucks, variu-,s armored vuhicles, artillery, grenades,
machine guns, and small arms. The Soviets also are
continuing to train substantial numbers of officers
and troops of the Popular Movement in the USSR, East
Germany, and the Congo.
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The Soviet press has consistently accorded spe-
ci,al praiao to the Movement, but until recently it
avoided direct attacks on the other liberation groups.
In tho wPi!c_,6, of the recent fighting in Luanda, howo' cr,
the press has charged that the National Front is a
client of Poking and the US, and has labeled it a "re-
actionary organization," whose oembers arc "culprits
for the death of hundreds of people. "
Moscow probably still has not written off the
prospect of a coalition government emerging in Angola.
With the Popular Movement now enjoying a cleor mili-
tary advantage, however, the Soviets appear to ha,,'e
rising expectations that the Movement will have the
dominant post-independence role.
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Taos announced on July 18 that Deputy Minister
of Culture 'linaida M. Kruglovr_, has boon named chair-
man of the Union of Soviet Societies for Friendship
and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries. Krug-
lova vacates a post which she atrumed only last No-
vember, shortly after the appointment of candidate
Politburo member Petr Demichev as minister of culture.
Until last fall, Kruglova had been party soc-
rotary for ideology in the Leningrad Oblast party
committee, where she conformed to Leningrad's long-
standing reputation for toughness and orthodoxy in
cultural and ideological affairs. Her appointment
to the Ministry of Culture was thus viewed by some
Soviet intellectuals as an effort to balance Demi-
chev's more pragmatic approach.
During her short tenure at the ministry, I{rug-
lova has had virtually no publicity. This will prob-
ably change with her new job which, though as gen-
e,rally powerless as that of a Leputy culture minister,
carries considerably more prestige and an opportunity
for international public relations.
This 52-year-old Kruglova takes over her new post
from Nina V. Popovi, 67, who is retiring. Popova's
rank as full member of the Central Committee may be