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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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conference of communist parties should not be convoked
without the participation of the Chinese. It is clear,
that under present circumstances, this would have meant
giving up the Conference. They further declared that
neither at the Conference nor at other international
meetings of communist parties should anyone criticize
the policies of other parties, hence, for example, those
of the MAO Tse-tung group. It is not difficult to comprehend
that this would be a serious concession to nationalistic
and other deviations from Marxism-Leninism
and would hinder the participants of the Conference from
a comprehensive and fundamental examination of the more
important problems.
30. The leadership of the RCP was very active in
the last months preceding the Consultative Meeting. As
recently as January-February of this year, delegations
from more than 30 parties were invited to Bucharest. The
Rumanians were obviously hoping to create a bloc of parties
which in Budapest would speak out with them in
concert against the line of the CPSU and other proponents
of the Conference.
31. In Budapest, the Rumanians launched a many-houred
discussion on the agenda for the Consultative
Meeting, trying to reduce its work to the level of conversations
about the Conference, without adoption of a
resolution to convoke it. But the Rumanians were obliged
to listen to some sharp comments addressed to themselves.
They were told: say straight out that you are against
the Conference; that would be more honest and would save
time.
32. The Rumanian delegation saw in the first days
of the Meeting that it would not find support from the
other delegations. It then used the speech by the head
of the Syrian Communist Party delegation, K. Bakdash,
containing a criticism of the policies of the Rumanian
leadership as an excuse to walk out of the Consultative
Meeting.
33. It should be said that the nature of the discussion
of the conflict between the Rumanian and the
Syrian delegations at the Meeting is one of fundamental
significance. It was not only that Comrade Bakdash criticized
the erroneous policy of the Rumanian CP leadership
in the Near East and its attitude toward the nationalistic
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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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