THE SITUATION IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA (AS OF 1130 EDT)

Created: 6/30/1968

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INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

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INTELLIGENCE MEMORANDUM

Tho Situation0 EdT>

1. Ro-.iters reported this morning that Prenior Cornik

privatelyroup of government officials that

Soviet military commanders had throawhile

the Moscow parley was intake ovor tho country

"with brutal forco if necessary." Cernik is said also to

have stated that the Soviets haveist of poople,

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numbering in theo be arrested and taken from the country. Cernik allegedly advised the govornntontto urge "tho best brains" of Czechoslovakia to loave the country while they could,

3, AP has reported that clandestine radio stations in Czechoslovakia ceased broadcasting today. FDI6,was still monitorlug eomo stations, Including at lonst ono still celling itaolfadio Czoohoslovakla ok0 EDT this morning. Soviot prcusuro, direct or Indirect, ho-over, is causing tho press to oxorclse restraint. In Brno, Mlada Fronta, tho press organ of tho youth organization.

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COMFIDBNTIAL

appeared today with two columns blank, suggesting censorship has been imposed. Svobodft (Freedom), tho party's paper in Bohemia, today reported thai It ia "introducing BOlf-dlscipllno becauso of the realities of tho situation, wjilch is so absurd," In addition, tho heads of Czechoslovak television and radio have gone "on vacation," Both men reportodly werooviet black-list.

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