Francesco/who-killed-jfk huggingface dataset:
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14-0000020 July 1953IO, Attn: Mr. LurkeoVIA: Chief, EEIC/EE/PProposed Balloon Campaign in Event President Offers Food to Poland1. With reference to our discussion of 17 July, attached hereto is a sample of the coupon which it is recommended that the Crusade for Freedom distribute by balloon from Germany in the event that a Presidential offer of food for Poland is refused by the Polish Government. This coupon reads as follows:The bearer of this coupon is entitled to receive from the food supplies donated by Americans!(food listed will be those specifically offered)Stamped across the coupon are the words, "Invalid due to the rejection of the offer by the Polish 'Peoples' Republic".2. We are advising the Frankfurt mission of this plan and requesting their estimate of the number of leaflets which they could release by balloon from the Baltic. Please advise us whether or not your printing facilities can supply the German section with whatever number of leaflets they undertake to distribute. We, on the other hand, will advise you soonest of the number of balloons we will require from your stocks and the address to which they are to be consigned.3. In the event that the Crusade desires to include a printed message on the reverse of the leaflet, it is requested that the text of the message be cleared either with this desk or with the German mission prior to printing.Attachment:KALPOLE LAVISDeputy, ChiefEE/F: ECodaruins20 July 19532 Addressee1 RI2 EE/P
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16 July 1953MEMORANDUM FOR: IO/PPATTENTION: Mr. Thomas BradenSUBJECT: Mr. Kenneth Dean Koch1. In January of this year I discussed with your office the retention of Kenneth Dean. Koch in Berlin as RFE representative, due to his extensive usefulness to FI in Berlin, providing FI with cover facilities, leads, general services and working very satisfactorily in supporting the FI mission in Berlin. At that time I was assured by 10 that they would do everything possible to retain Itr. Koch in Berlin as the RFE representative. In May of this year I had occasion to visit Bob Lang in New York on another matter and I again touched upon Mr. Koch's assignment in Berlin, at which time Fr. Lang assured me that no changes would be made in Koch's assignment in Berlin without prior clearance with me. He also emphasized that no man would be sent to Berlin who did not meet with our complete approval. In the meantime, Koch was sent to Israel to set up the RFE office but seemingly met with opposition on the part of Israel authorities and has returned to Germany with no definite job envisaged for him. John Elliott has takon over the KFE office in Berlin and there seems to be no attempt to make any concessions to FI wishes in Berlin.2. We find this solution an extremely unsatisfactory one. Elliott, by background, general character, and ability, is not as useful to FI in berlin as Koch was and I seriously doubt that RFE would find him as catisfactory as Koch in standard RFE business. I know Elliott when he was a newspaper man, and I have checked with several of his former colleagues who agree that he does not have any of the hard-hitting qualities sc desirable for an FFE representative in Berlin. This is not an attempt to bolittle his. ability as a journalist but the job in Berlin is very much more than that. In short, I would appreciate your office taking steps with RFE to return Dean Koch to Berlin as RFE representative, since his services to FI are very much desired even on a part-time basis. Our main reason for wanting Koch in Berlin is that the RFE office attracts a large percentage of Satellite refugees and as such it is important for us to have the head of the HFE office in BerlinSecurity
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Security Information-2-cognizant of our intelligence intereste in order to be able to channel the right type of refugee to our doorstep. Furthermore, in many cases the RFE representative con perform valuable screening and cutout functions which would preserve his own cover and yet save un valuable time and effort.3. I vould appreciate any action you can take on this subject and refer you to IN 40404 from berlin which is attached. Please keep me advised on any progress you make in this case.PETER SICHELChief, EE/FIAttachment: IN 40404Security Information
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SECRETSecurity IoforinationRead by Wisner7/17/5316 July 1953MEMORANDUM FOR: DEPUTY DIRECTOR (PLANS)SUBJECT: RFE Report on recent Soviet ZonePolitburo Meeting1. Attached herewith, I am forwarding you a cable which has just been received in New York from Munich.2. The information contained therein was transmitted by the RFE correspondent in Hamburg, Major Ramsey, who reported- ly got it from a usually reliable British SIS contact.3. RFE has asked us to treat this information with extreme caution and strictly as speculation.(signed) THOMAS W. BRADENTHOMAS W. BRADENChiefInternational Organizations DivisionAttachment: a/sSECRETSecurity vormation
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# SECRETSECURITY INFORMATIONSOVIET ZONE POLITUURO MEETINGCable dated 7/16/53 from Ahinich to New York"East Oerman aling President Wilhelm Pieok is definitely on the way out, reliable sources in close contacts with the East German Govern-. ment said here today. The sources stated that Plock's ouster was dia closed during an East-West German Communist Politburo meeting which ended in East Germany on July 12. Top German Communist leaders were also told that East German Secret Police Chief, Wilholm Zaisser, is now suspended or under house arest. Zuisser was arrested for publica- tion of casilty figures of the June 17 revolt, the source said. His ouster also falls in line with recent Communist policy shifts all over the Red Empire, they said. At the meeting it was disclosed that SED head Walter Ulbricht will remain a potent force in East German politics despite recent rumoro of hio imponding purge. Premier Otto Grotswohl will be given increased power in the new government set-up, the sources said. During a discussion of recent events in the Soviet at the Polit- buro meeting, the Communist leaders were given information from Moscow reporting that Foreign Minister. Colotov will emerge during the cart month as the key figure in the Soviet Union. Premier Malenkov will serve as a figurehead for Holotov, the sources revealed. The Red Army is fast becoming a major political force in Russia and several generals have been recalled from outpost arens by order of Molotov, the sources said. The USSR is suffering from acute shortages of raw materials, especially rubber and oil, as well as strategic metals of the rarer varieties, it was disclosed at the meeting. In view of this, the top Communists were told that Russia would continue its "peace offensive" for at least another year. The sourves, reported to be "highly ro liable", said that the revelations released at the meeting were to be used as "policy directives" by East and West Communist leaders."NOTE:FYI. "This information was released through our Central News with the warning to treat with extreme caution, adding that Political ad visor's office agreed it is of most explosive nature and should be handled strictly as speculation."SECRET
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SECRETSECURITY INFORMATION43529Noted by J.C.J8 August 195315 July 1953MEMORANDUM FOR: DIRECTOR, CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCYSUBJECT: Purge of BeriaAttached herewith is a guidance received by RFE on the purge of Beria.C.I. Meyer, Jr.Deputy Chief,International Organisations DivisionAttachment.SECRET
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SECRETSECURITY INFORMATIONPROVISIONAL GUIDANCE: PURGE OF BERIAI BACKGROUND AND ANALYSIS:(THIS WILL BE ISSUED LATER IN MORE DETAIL AS SOON AS TIME PERMITS.)THE FOLLOWING FACTS, HOWEVER, STAND OUT IMMEDIATELY:1. NO PERSON OF BERIA'S RANK IN THE SOVIET UNION HAS FALLEN SINCE BERIA HIMSELF REPLACED YEZHOV IN 1938; THE FORCE COULD NOT BEING ATA HIGHER LEVEL. THE CHARGES AGAINST BERIA (OF BEING A BOURGEOIS RENEGADE IMPERIALIST AGENT WHO TRIED TO OVERTHROW THE SOVIET GOVERNMENT, DESTROY THE COMMUNIST PARTY AND RE-ESTABLISH CAPITALISM IN THE USSR) ARE OF A MAGNITUDE COMPARABLE ONLY TO THOSE AGAINST THE TROTSKYITES AND THE RIGHTISTS IN THE 1920'S.2. THE STRUGGLE FOR THE SUCCESSION TO STALIN IS DEVELOPING MUCH MORE RAPIDLY THAN AFTER THE DEATH OF LENIN. IT TOOK FOUR YEARS FOR STALIN TO REMOVE THE RIGHTISTS. FURTHERMORE, CONSIDERING THE SHIFT TO THE RIGHT IN THE EAST GERMANY AND HUNGARY, AND THE ANNOUNCEMENT AS LATE AS A WEEK OR SO AGO OF "PRO-NATIONALIST" CHANGES IN TADJIKISTAN, THE DECISION IN THE STRUGGLE MUST HAVE HAPPENED ONLY WITHIN THE LAST FEW DAYS. BERIA'S ABSENCE (WHEN ALL THE OTHER MEMBERS OF THE POLITBURO WERE PRESENT) AT THE BOLSHOI THEATRE ON JUNE 28 WAS ONE OF THE FIRST PUBLIC INDICATIONS OF HIS APPROACHING FALL; THE JULY 8 EDITORIAL OF IZVESTIA, THE SECOND.3. THE FORCES WHICH DESTROYED BERIA ARE CERTAINLY A COLLECTIVE GROUP, NOT SIMPLY MALENKOV HIMSELF. MALENKOV'S NAME APPEARS ONLY ONCE IN THE ANNOUNCEMENT AND THE PRAVDA EDITORIAL EMPHASIZES COLLECTIVE LEADERSHIP MORE THAN EVER BEFORE.4. THE PRAVDA EDITORIAL MARKS A NEW REVERSAL IN THE GENERAL LINE--AWAY FROM RIGHTISM AND TOWARD LEFTIST EXTREMISM, OR PERHAPS MORE ACCURATELY AWAY FROM MODERATION AND TOWARD; -- FASCIST EXTREMISM. THE SHIFT TO AN EXTREMIST COURSE IS BASICALLY IN TWO QUESTIONS:A. THE NATIONALITIES QUESTIONB. AGRICULTURAL COLLECTIVIZATIONIT IS NOW CLEAR THAT BERIA WAS PRO-NATIONAL MINORITY AND ANTI-INTENSIFICATION OF COLLECTIVIZATION. THE GROUP WHICH HAS REMOVED HIM IS PRO-GREAT RUSSIAN AND PRO-COLLECTIVIZATION. IT IS RETURNING TO THE STALINIST LINE. WILL THE DOCTORS' PLOT BE REVIVED? THE SLANSKY TRIAL? SLANSKY-TYPE TRIALS IN THE SATELLITES?5. NOT ONLY BERIA HIMSELF HAS FALLEN BUT THE WHOLE APPARATUS OF THE SECRET POLICE IS DENOUNCED, WILL LOSE MUCH FACE AND IMPORTANCE AND WILL BE SUBJECTED TO A TREMENDOUS PURGE, WHICH MUST SHAKE THE WHOLE GOVERNMENTAL STRUCTURE TO ITS FOUNDATIONS.SECRET
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SECURITY INFORMATION8. THIS PEACE OFFENSIVE WILL PROBABLY CONTINUE ON THE INTERNATIONAL SCENE BUT WILL HAVE NOW A PURELY PROPAGANDA CHARACTER; NO GENUINE CONCESSIONS (E.G., SURRENDERING OF EAST GERMANY) WILL NOR TAKE PLACE. ON THE INTERNAL SCENE IN THE SOVIET SPHERE THERE WILL CONTINUE TO BE TALK OF IMPROVING THE LIVING STAN-DARDS OF THE WORKERS BUT IN ACTUALITY THE COURSE WILL BE TOWARD INCREASED CAPITAL INVESTMENT AT THE EXPENSE OF CONSUMER GOODS-PARTICULARLY IN THE SATEL-LITES.II. GUIDANCE:CAUTION: AS BEFORE, WE SPECULATE ON FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS IN THE KREMLIN AND THE SATELLITE COUNTRIES BUT WE DO NOT ACCEPT ANY ONE PARTICULAR THEORY. THIS IS THE END OF THE FIRST ACT OF THE POWER STRUGGLE FOR THE SUCCESSION, BUT ONLY THE FIRST ACT; THERE ARE MANY MORE AND BLOODIER ACTS TO COME. THE COALITION WHICH DESTROYED BERIA IS JUST SUBJECT TO INTERNAL DISSENSION AS WAS THE MALENKOV-BERIA-MOLOTOV COALITION FUSED AFTER THE DEATH OF STALIN. THE BASIC ANALOGY HERE IS TO STALIN'S TACTICS AFTER THE DEATH OF LENIN. FIRST HE ELIMINATED TROTSKY AND THE LEFTS (THE NEW COALITION NOW ELIMINATES BERIA); THEN HE ELIMINATED THE RIGHTISTS (PROBABLY THE NEXT ACT IN THIS PRESENT DRAMA WILL IN-VOLVE ELIMINATION OF THE REST OF THE COALITION BY THE RISING ELEMENT IN IT).A. TO THE PEOPLE:AS THE SATELLITES DEVOUR EACH OTHER EVER MORE FEROCIOUSLY, OUR PEOPLES CAN LOOK ON WITH PLEASURE AND LOATHING WHILE THEIR OPPRESSORS ARE MAKING THEMSELVES WEAKER AND THEY (THE EAST EUROPEAN PEOPLES) ARE BECOMING STRONGER. WHEN THE KREMLIN IS WEAKENED BY SUBVERSION THE SATELLITE KREMLINS ARE EVEN MORE WEAK AND PARALYZED. AND OF COURSE THE PURGE HAS JUST BEGUN. LOCAL SATELLITE COM-MUNIST BIG SHOTS WILL BE TOO OCCUPIED WITH SAVING THEIR OWN SKINS TO BE AS TYRANNICAL AS BEFORE. THIS COULD NOT COME AT A BETTER TIME FOR THE PEASANTS AND WORKERS OF EASTERN EUROPE: AFTER EASTERN GERMAN REVOLTS AND CZECHOSLOVAK DEMONSTRATIONS, THEY KNOW THEIR OWN STRENGTH AND THEIR OWN POWER. AS THEY ARE MARSHALLING THEIR FORCES, THEIR TYRANTS' STRUCTURE OF CONTROL IS CRACKING. THE EVENTUAL RUIN OF COMMUNISM HAS NEVER MORE CERTAIN THAN NOW. THE REGIMES WILL CERTAINLY TRY, AS THE KREMLIN IS TRYING, TO PRESENT A FACADE OF "MONOLITHIC UNITY." BUT YOU KNOW, AS THEY KNOW, THAT THE FACADE IS HOLLOW AND THAT THE REGIMES, CONFUSED AND RENT WITH INTERNAL DISSENSION, WILL PROBABLY NOT BE ABLE TO UNDERTAKE ANY CLEAR AND DECISIVE POLICY. HOWEVER, WE SHOULD WARN THE PEOPLE THAT THIS SHIFT TO EXTREMISM MAY MEAN (IN HUNGARY IN PARTICULAR) THAT THE KREMLIN WILL ORDER ITS PUPPETS TO TAKE A MORE EXTREME COURSE THAN BEFORE (BUT HERE ALSO WE MUST WAIT AND SEE-CONFUSION NOW REIGNS EVERYWHERE). NOW IS THE TIME, IN THIS PERIOD OF CONFUSION, FOR THE PEOPLE TO SECURE THE GAINS THEY HAVE ALREADY MADE AND PRESS ON FOR MORE. IN A VERY REAL SENSE, THE PEOPLE RE MORE THAN MERE ACTORS ON THE STAGE RATHER THAN SPECTATORS IN THE AUDIENCE. LED BY YOUR OWN LEADERS, YOU THE PEOPLE MUST CONTINUE YOUR EFFORTS IN THE COL-LECTIVE FARMS AND IN THE TRADE UNIONS, IN THE WAYS YOU KNOW SO WELL, TO FORCE THE REGIMES TO MAKE ACTUAL CONCESSIONS TO YOU.
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SECRETSECURITY INFORLATIOND. TO THE COMMUNEST5THE KREMLIN IS RIGHT IN ONE POINT--THIS IS AN EVENT OF IMMENS: SIGNIFICANCE. IT PROVES ONCE NONE, AND MORE PRANATICALLY THAN AT ANY TILE SINCE THE THIRTIES, THAT NO COMMUNIST CAN EVER BC SAFE. THOSE OF YOUR LIKE ZAPOTOCKY WHO TRIED TO HEDGE IN HIS BRATISLAVA SPEECH ON THE NATIONALIST ISSUE; THOSE OF YOU LIKE NAGY, GERO AND BATA WHO BECAME THE SYMBOLS OF THE RICHTIST COURSE YOU ARE SUITABLE OFFENUINGS FOR THE NEW SLAUGHTER AND THOSE COMMUNIST LEADERS WHO HAVE NOT RECOVE PREMATURE RIGHTIST DEVIATIOISST KILI. NOW UNDOUCTEDLY TRY TO BECOME EXTREMISTS AS FAST AS POSSIBLE-NO MATTER HOS MANY OF THEIR COMRADES THEY EUST DRAG DOWN IN A NEW PURGE. AND WHAT IS THE POINT OF TRYING TO BECOME AN EXTREMIST AGAIN? YOU KNOW THAT THE NES SOVIET DICTATOR (REERABER WE CANNOT BE SURE WHO HE WILL BE, HAVING ELIMINATED BERIA, WILL NOT TRY TO ELLLONATE BERIA'S OPPONENTS. AS COMMUNISTS (SEE CEFCHOSLOVAK GUTDANCE NULGER DEN) YOU HAVE ONLY TWO CHOICES. YOU CAN AND THE PEOPLE AND SABOTAGE THE REGIME, THUS CROSSING THE "GOLDEN BRIDGE TO SAFETY, OR YOU CAN FLED. THERE IS NO OTHER CHOICE.C. TO THE SECRET POLICE:TOUR TURN HAS NOW COME. IF ALL THE PEOPLE THAT BERIA PROMOTED AND ALL THIS LOCALNORGANG OF THE END IN THE USSR ARE TO BE PUNCED, AS IS NOW ANNOUNCED, WHAT DO YOU THINK WILL HA PER TO YOUR FOOR LARTONETTES IN THE SATELLITES? YOU HAVE EVEN IESS CHANCE TO SURVIVE THAN THE ORGINARY COMMUNIST. AGAIN, YOU CAN MAKE YOUR PEACE WITH THE PEOPLE OR YOU CAN FLEE. OTHERWISE, YOUR DOOM IS CERTAIN..NOTE:AS YOU WILL SEE FROM THE ABOVE, OUR PRESENT LINE (THE INCREASING STRENGTH OF THIS PEOPLE, THE INCREASING WEAKNESS OF THE REGIME) REPAIRS INTACT. CZECHOSLOVAK GUIDANCE NUMBER TEN & ALNOST COUPLETELY INTO THE NEW CIRCUMSTANCES AND MUST NOW BE IMPLEMENTED (WITH APPROPRIATE CHANGES FOR HUNGARY AND POLAND) WITH RENEWED VIGOR.END MESSAGESECRET
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SECRETSECURITY INFORMATION15 July 1953MEMORANDUM FOR: DIRECTOR, CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCYSUBJECT: Purge of BeriaAttached herewith is a guidance received by RFE on the purge of Beria.CORD MEYER, JR.CORD AYER, JR.Deputy Chief,International Organizations DivisionAttachmentSECRET
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SECRETSECURITY INFORMATIONPROVISIONAL GUIDANCE: PURGE OF BERIAI BACKGROUND AND ANALYSIS:(THIS WILL BE ISSUED LATER IN MORE DETAIL AS SOON AS TIME PERMITS.)THE FOLLOWING FACTS, HOWEVER, STAND OUT IMMEDIATELY:1. NO PERSON OF BERIA'S RANK IN THE COVIET UNION HAS FALLEN SINCE BERIA HIMSELF REPLACED YEZIHOV IN 1938; THE PURGE COULD NOT HEING ATA HIGHER LEVEL. THE CHARGES AGAINST SERIA (OF BEING A BOURGEOIS RENEGADE IMPERIALIST AGENT WHO NEED TO OVERTHROW THE SOVIET GOVERNMENT, DESTROY THE COMMUNIST PARTY AND RE-ESTABLISH CAPITALISH IN THE USSR) ARE OF A MAGNITUDE COMPARABLE ONLY TO THOSE AGAINST THE TROTSKYI TES AND THE RIGHTISTS IN THE 1920'S.2. THE STRUGGLE FOR THE SUCCESSION TO STAIJN IS DEVELOPING MUCH MORE RAPIDLY THAN AFTER THE DEATH OF LEZHIN. IT TOOK FOUR YEARS FOR STALIN TO REMOVE THE RIGHTISTS. FURTHERUORE, CONSI DERING THE SHIFT TO THE RIGHT IN THE EAST GERMANY AND HUNGARY, AND THE ANIOURNCEMENT AS JA TE AS A WEEK OR SO AGO OF Η ΠΡΟ-ΝΑ ΤΙ ΟΠΛLIST CHANGES IN TADJIKISTAN, THE DECISION IN THE STRUGOLE MUST HAVE HAPPENED ONLY WITHIN THE LAST FIN DAYS. BERIA'S ABSENCE (WHEN ALL THE OTHER AFMBERS OF THE POLITBURO WERE KRESENT) AT THE BOLSHOI THEATRE ON JUNE 28 WAS ONE OF THE FIRST PUBLIC INDICATIONS OF HIS APPROACHING FALL; THE JULY 8 EDI TORIAL OF IZVESTIA, THE SECOND.3. THE FORCES WHICH DESTROYED BAHIA ARE CERTAINLY A COLLECTIVE GROUP, NOT SIMPLY MALENKOV HIMSELF. MALENKOV'S NAME APPEARS ONLY ONCE IN THE ANNOUNCEMENT AND THE PRAVDA EDITORIAL EMPHASIZES COLLECTIVE LEADERSHIP MORE THAN EVER BEFORE.4. THE PRAVIDA EDI TORIAL MARES A NEW REVERSAL IN THE GENERAL LINE-AWAY FROM RICHTISM AND TOWARD LEFTIST EXTREMISM, OR PERHAPS MORE ACCURATELY AWAY FROM MODERATION AND TOWARD; FASCIST EXTREMISM. THE SHIFT TO AN EXTREMIST COURSE IS BASICALLY IN TWO QUESTIONS:A. THE NATIONALI TIES QUESTIONB. AGRICULTURAL COLLECTIVIZATIONIT IS NOW CLEAR THAT BERIA WAS PRO-NATIONAL MINORITY AND ANTI-INTENSIFICATION OF COLLECTIVIZATION. THE GROUP WHICH HAS REMOVED HIM IS PRO-GREAT RUSSIAN AND PRO-COLLECTIVISATION. IT IS RETURNING TO THE STALINIST LINE. WILL THE DOCTORS' PLOT BE REVIVED? THE SLANSKY TRIAL? SLANSKY-TYPE TRIALS IN THE SATELLITES?5. NOT ONLY BERIA HIMSELF HAS FALLEN BUT THE SHOLE APPARATUS OF THE SECRET POLICE IS DENOUNCED, WILL LOSE MUCH FACE AND INWORTANCE AND WILL BE, SUBJECTED TO A TREMENDOUS PURGE, WHICH MUST SHAKE THE WHOLE GOVERNMENTAL STRUCTURE TO ITS FOUNDATIONS.SECRET
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SECRETSECURITY INFORMATION6. THE PEACE OFFENSIVE WILJ. FROMBLY CONTINUE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SCENE--   BUT WILL HAVE NOW A FURELY PROPAGANDA CHARACTER; HO GOTTER CONCESSIONS (E. G.,   SURRENDERING OF FAST GERMANY) WILL NOW TAKE PLACE. ON THE INTEGAL SCENE IN   THE SWIET SPHERE THERE WILL CONTINUE TO BE TALK OF LUPONING THE LIVING STAN   DARDS OF THE WORKERS BUT IN ACTUALITY THE COURSE WILL BE TWARD INCREASED   CAPITAL INVESTIENT AT THE EXPENSE OF CONSUMER GOODS-PARZICULARLY IN THE SATEL-   LITES.II. GUIDANCE:CAUTION: AS DEFORE, WE SPECULATE ON FUTURE DEVELOPARTZE IN THE KREMLIN AND THESATELLITE COUNTRIES BUT WE DO NOT ACCEPT ANY CHE PARTICULAR THAY. THIS ISTHE END OF THE FIRST ACT OF THE FORER STRUGGIE FOR THE SUCCESSION, BUT ONLY THEFIRST ACT, THERE ARE MANY HORE AND BLOODIER ACTS TO CONE. THE COALITION WHICHDESTROYED BERIA IS JUST AS CUBJECT TO INTERNAL DISSENCE ON ES WAS THE MALENKOV-BERNIA-MOLOTOV COALITION FORDED AFTER THE DEATH OF STALIN. THE BASIC ANALOGYHERE IS TO STALIN'S TACTICS AFTER THE DEATH OF LENIN. FLEET HE ELIMINATEDTROTSKY AND THE LEFTISTS (THE NEW COALITION MOR ELIMINEMIA); THEN HEELIMINATED THE RIGHTISTS (PROBABLY THE NEXT ACT IN TES PESENT DRAMA WILL IN-VOLVE ELIMINATION OF THE REST OF THE COALITION SY THE ZISING ELEMENT IN IT).A. TO THE PEOPLE:AS THE BOLSHEVIKS DEVOUR EACH OTHER ETER WORE PYHOCZUSLY, OUR PEOPLES CANLOOK ON WITH PLEASURE AND ASSURANCE WHILE 110IR OPPRESSES ARE MAKING THEMSELVESWEAKER AND THEY (THE FASTERN EU OPEAN PEOPLES) ARE BECCING STRONGER. WHEN THEKREMLEN IS WEAKSNED BY DISSENSION THE SATELLITE KREMLINE 122 EVEZI LIORE WEAKAND PARALYZED. AND OF COURSE THE PURGE HAS JUST EECOM. ICEL SATELLITE COMVUNIST HIG SHOTS WILL BE TOO OCCUPIED WITH SAVING THEIR DET SKINS TO BE ASTYRANNICAL AS BEFORE. THIS COULD HOT COME AT A BETTER ZE FOR THE ITASANTSAND WORKERS OF FASTERN EUROPE: APTER EASTERN GERMAN REVOLTS AND CZECHOSLOVAKDEKONSTA TIONS, THEY NOW KNOW THEIR OMN STRENGTH AND THEIR DAN POWER. AS THEYARE WARSHALLING THEIR FORCES, THEIR TYRANTS STRUCTURE OF CONTROL IS CRACKING.THE EVENTUAL DOOM OF COMMUNISH WAS HEVER MORE CERTAIN TELE DOW. THE REGIMES WILLCERTALILY TRY, AS THE KREMLIN IS TRYING, TO PRESHMIT A FACADE OF "MONOLITHICUNITY." BUT YOU KNOW, AS THEY KNOW, THAT THE FACADE IS HOLLOW AND THAT THEREGIMES, CONFUSED AND RENT WITH INTERNAL DISSENSION, WILL PEOBABLY NOT BE ABLETO UNDERTAKE ANY ONE CLEAR AND DECISIVE POLICE. HOWEVER, BE SHOULD WARN THEPEOPLE THAT THIS SHIFT TO EXTREMISH WAY MEAN (IN HUNGARY IX PARTICULAR) THATTHE KREMLIN WILL ORDER ITS PUPPETS TO TAKE A MORE EXTREME COURSE THAN BEFORE(BUT HERE ALSO WE MUST WAIT AND SEE CONFUSION NON REIGNS EVERYWHERE). NOW ISTHE TIME, IN THIS PERIOD OF CONFUSION, FOR THE PEOPLE TELETFE THE GAINS THEYHAVE ALREADY MADE AND PRESS ON FOR MORE. IN AVERY REAL SENSE, THE PEOPLE REMORE THAN EVERY ACTORS ON THE STAGE RATHER THAN SPECTATORS IN THE AUDIENCE.LED BY YOUR NEW LEADERS, YOU THE PEOPLE, MUST CONTINUE YOUE 2770R.IS IN THE COL-LECTIVE FARMS AND IN THE TRADE UNIONS, IN THE WAYS YOU KICH SO WELL, TO FORCETHE REGIME TO MAKE ACTUAL CONCESSIONS TO YOU.SECRET
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SECRETSECURITY INFORMATIONB. TO THE COMMUNISTS:THE KREMLIN IS RIGHT IN ONE POINT--THIS IS AN EVENT OF IMMENSE: SIGNIFICANCE. IT PROVES ONCE MORE, AND MORE DRAMATICALLY THAN AT ANY TIME SINCE THE THIRTIES, THAT NO COMMUNIST CAN EVER BE SAFE. THOSE OF YOUR LIKE ZAPOTOCKY WHO TRIED TO HEDGE IN HIS BRATISLAVA SPEECH ON THE NATIONALIST ISSUE, THOSE OF YOU LIKE NAGY, GERO AND BATA WHO BECAME THE SYMBOLS OF THE RIGHTIST COURSE—YOU ARE SUITABLE OFFERINGS FOR THE NEW SLAUGHTER. AND THOSE COMMUNIST LEADERS WHO HAVE NOT BECOME PREMATURE RIGHTIST DEVIATIONIST WILL NOW UNDOUBTEDLY TRY TO BECOME EXTREMISTS AS FAST AS POSSIBLE—NO MATTER HOW MANY OF THEIR COMRADES THEY MUST DRAG DOWN IN A NEW PURGE. AND WHAT IS THE POINT OF TRYING TO BECOME AN EXTREMIST AGAIN? YOU KNOW THAT THE NEW SOVIET DICTATOR (REMEMBER WE CANNOT BE SURE WHO HE WILL BE, HAVING ELIMINATED BERIA, WILL NOW TRY TO ELIMINATE BERIA'S OPPONENTS. AS -COMMUNISTS (SAYS CZECHOSLOVAK GUIDANCE NUMBER TEN) YOU HAVE ONLY TWO CHOICES. YOU CAN AID THE PEOPLE AND SABOTAGE THE REGIME, THUS CROSSING THE "GOLDEN BRIDGE" TO SAFETY, OR -- YOU CAN FLEE. THERE IS NO OTHER CHOICE.C. TO THE SECRET POLICE:YOUR TURN HAS NOW COME. IF ALL THE PEOPLE THAT BERIA PROMOTED AND ALL THE LOCALNORGANS OF THE AVD IN THE USSR ARE TO BE PURGED, AS IS NOW ANNOUNCED, WHAT DO YOU THINK WILL HAPPEN TO YOUR POOR MARIONETTES IN THE SATELLITES? YOU HAVE EVER LESS CHANCES TO SURVIVE THAN THE ORDINARY COMMUNIST. AGAIN, YOU CAN MAKE YOUR PEACE WITH THE PEOPLE OR YOU CAN FLEE. OTHERWISE, YOUR DOOM IS CERTAIN.NOTE:AS YOU WILL SEE FROM THE ABOVE, OUR PRESENT LINE (THE INCREASING STRENGTH OF THE PEOPLE, THE INCREASING WEAKNESS OF THE REGIME) REMAINS INTACT. CZECHOSLOVAK GUIDANCE NUMBER TEN IS ALMOST COMPLETELY INTO THE NEW CIRCUMSTANCES AND MUST NOW BE IMPLEMENTED (WITH APPROPRIATE CHANGES FOR HUNGARY AND POLAND) WITH RENEWED VIGOR.END MESSAGESECRET
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SECRETSecurity InformationExecutive Registry4-347515 July 1953MEMORANDUM FOR: DIRECTOR CENTRAL INTELLIGENCESUBJECT: PFE - Balloon OperationAttached herewith is the story of the balloon operation and an early report of what happened.Carl Meyer, Jr.OCRD MEYER, JR.Deputy ChiefInternational Organizations DivisionAttachment: a/sSecurity Information