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Translation of the official Communist Party, Soviet Union (CPSU) report on the 4/9-4/10/68 Plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU. Contents include: problems in the international Communist movement; problems in other socialist countries, namely China, Cuba, Rumania, Czechoslovakia, and Poland; the Vietnamese conflict; U.S. domestic problems and the presidential election; the PUEBLO incident; the nuclear nonproliferation treaty; the situation in West Germany and the Middle East. Report. Central Intelligence Agency. TOP SECRET. Issue Date: Jun 28, 1968. Date Declassified: May 28, 2003. Complete. 52 page(s).

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55. Voluminous and intense work by all fraternal
parties will be needed for the achievement of this goal.

[Illegible text] Problems in the International Situation

56. The results of the session of the Political Consultative
Committee of the Warsaw Pact, which took place in
Sofia on 6 and 7 March, were dealt with in the address by
[Illegible text] A number of the most important
problems of the current situation in the world were discussed
at this session.

57. At the proposal of the Soviet Union, seven
socialist nations of Europe came out in Sofia with a
"Declaration on the Threat to Peace, Created as a Result
of the Expansion of American Aggression in Vietnam."

58. The Sofia Declaration attracted worldwide attention
and was accepted as a serious warning to American
aggressors and as a fresh expression of unbending determination
by the countries of the Warsaw Pact to render all possible
assistance to Vietnam. The leadership of the Workers'
Party of Vietnam, the Government, the press and public
opinion in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam highly
evaluated this statement as very necessary and effective
political support.

59. An evaluation of recent events connected with
the war in Vietnam was given in the address.

60. The offensive operations of recent months have
shown [Illegible text] how great are the forces of national
liberation in Vietnam, how unshakeable is the combative
spirit of the Vietnamese people.

61. It is becoming clearer to the public and
to the ruling circles of many countries, and even to many
Americans, that the present American policy in Vietnam is
radically faulty and has no prospects for success.

62. The increase in human losses in Vietnam is having
a [Illegible text] greater influence on American public opinion.
And [Illegible text] have almost doubled in the last year. The
[Illegible text] patriots, of course, increased the losses
of the [Illegible text] even more [Illegible text] of the [Illegible text]
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