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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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97. An analysis of the disposition of forces vis-a-vis
the draft agreement indicates that it is possible to bring
the matter to a conclusion, although there are a number of
obstacles along the way which must be overcome.
98. Of the nuclear powers, besides the Soviet Union,
the United States and England are prepared to sign the
agreement in its present form. France will most likely
not sign the agreement, though it supports the idea itself
of non-proliferation of nuclear weapons and gives assurance
that it will do nothing which might interfere with the
conclusion of the agreement or further the proliferation of
such weapons.
99. The fifth nuclear power, China, takes a negative
position. The MAO Tse-tung group is conducting a vicious
campaign against the draft agreement. This line arises out
of the over-all course of the MAO Tse-tung group. It is
clear that the CPR will not become a party to the agreement.
This must be taken into consideration. But if those countries
to which the Chinese might give nuclear weapons become
participants of the agreement, then this would also
be a solution to the problem - from the other side, so to
speak.
100. West Germany continues to manifest opposition
to the conclusion of the agreement on non-proliferation.
Bonn is employing a delaying tactic, trying to undermine
the agreement on the pretext that it is allegedly not perfect
and should be improved.
101. We of course are employing the necessary measures
to influence the Government of West Germany. According
to information available to us, the Government of the
United States is striving to insure that the Government of
West Germany will sign the agreement. We worked on this
assumption in coordinating the draft. If it suddenly became
clear that the Government of West Germany did not
intend to sign the agreement, then, of course, we would be
obliged to review our attitude toward this entire question.
102. At the moment, the foes of the agreement in West
Germany are putting stakes on certain vacillating governments
among those which are close to the possibility of
creating their own nuclear weapon. Let us take Brazil, for
example. It is ruled by a military dictatorship whose leaders
do not hide their plans to turn Brazil into a nuclear
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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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