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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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67. Of course, Johnson depicted his decision as evidence
of the allegedly peace-loving intentions of the Government
of the United States and of his personal desire to
terminate the war in Vietnam as soon as possible. American
propaganda seized upon and started to inflate the
President's statement in precisely this spirit.
68. However, if the substance is examined, there is
not really much new in this widely-advertised step of
Johnson's. In reality, the United States continues to bomb
an important part of the territory of the Democratic Republic
of Vietnam - from the 17th to the 20th parallels, and refuses
unconditional termination of bombing missions and
all other acts of war on the entire territory of the Democratic
Republic of Vietnam.
69. The Government of the DRV published on 3 April
a declaration in which it showed the real meaning of Johnson's
step and at the same time declared its readiness
to appoint a representative for contact with a representative
of the United States to discuss the question of unconditional
termination of bombings and other acts of war
against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, in order that
negotiations might be started.
70. The Politburo of the CC/CPSU and the Soviet
Government supported this position of our Vietnamese comrades
which was based on principle and was at the same time
flexible. In connection with this, there was published on
5 April the Declaration of the Soviet Government which is
known to you.
71. Thus, some new elements have appeared now in
the Vietnamese picture. For its part, the Soviet Union
will, of course, undertake everything possible in order to
encourage the development of events in the direction of a
political settlement of the conflict in Vietnam.
72. It is no secret that one of the decisive factors
supporting the struggle of the liberating forces in Vietnam
is the fraternal, international assistance of our country.
Guided by decisions made previously at the Congress and
plenary sessions of the Central Committee of our Party,
the [Illegible text] of the Central Committee and the Soviet
Government have continued during the entire course of this
last period to render all possible assistance, military as
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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). Reproduced in Declassified Documents Reference System. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2008.
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