CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00975A012700110002-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 2, 2003
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: December 13, 1968
• Content Type: REPORT

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Finland: Finnish Communists are concerned over the
Brez inev Doctrine." (Page 6)
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Finland: The Finnish Communist Party (FCP) is
concerned over the "Brezhnev Doctrine" and is attempt-
ing to clarify its implications for the party and the
nation.
The party secretariat met in early December to
discuss the doctrine that the Soviet Union has the
right to intervene in "fraternal socialist countries"
when developments there threaten the survival of a
socialist regime. FCP leaders believe that this doc-
trine conflicts with earlier statements made by
Brezhnev that every party has the right to determine
its own road to socialism and national self-develop-
ment. In trying to square these two positions, the
FCP concluded that independent ideological develop-
ment would continue to be tolerated as long as it
does not affect the military and political interests
of the USSR.
A majority of the secretariat was critical of
the Brezhnev doctrine but conceded that it must be
considered a new fact of life in Europe. The secre-
tariat is inclined to believe that the doctrine is
limited in its application to the socialist countries
of Eastern Europe. It did not, however, rule out
arbitrary Soviet interpretations which would make
it applicable to Finland or the FCP. Some members
of the secretariat felt that any forceful Soviet in-
tervention in Finland would pose a real and imminent
political and military threat to Western Europe.
The secretariat, apprehensive over the vagueness
of the doctrine and particularly concerned over any
possibility of Soviet intervention in FCP efforts to
liberalize, has refrained from taking any public
position on it. Instead, it has decided to wait
until the next world conference of Communist parties,
to be held in Moscow next May, at which time it be-
lieves the doctrine will come up for discussion and
clarification, I
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