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Released pursuant to Executive Order 14176, DECLASS. OF RECORDS CONC. THE ASSASSINATIONS OF PRES. JEK, SEN.

REK, AND THE REV. DR. MLK, JR.

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AGENCY INFORMATION

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144-10001-10269

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2/R7/GCY/T172-68 SED DAILY SUMMARY

PAGES : 20/10/68

SUBJECTS:

DAILY SUMMARY

ASSASSINATION, OTHER

DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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CURRENT STATUS

DATE OF LAST REVIEW : Î1/13/97

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XXCC

(ITEM NO: 8 CONT) THE NEWS OF THE ASSASSINATION OF U.S

SENATOR ROBERT KENNEDY

WAS HEARD WITH INDIGNATION AND DISGUST

BY

INDUSTRIAL AND AGRICULTURAL

WORKERS.

MANY WORKERS CONDEMNED POLITICAL MURDER AS COMMITTED AGAINST FORMER-PRESIDENT

JOrIN F.

CIRCLES WHO,

KENNEDY.

THEY PROTESTED SHARPLY AGAINST THOSE EXTREMIST REACTIONARY

IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE THEIR ANTIDEMOCRATIC AND ANTICOMMUNIST GOALS,

ARE INCREASINGLY PRACTICING MURDER AGAINST THEIR POLITICAL OPPONENTS AND WHO

HAVE INTRODUCED MURDER AS A MEANS OF POLITICAL DUSCUSSION THE THE INTERNAL

POLITICS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

MANY WORKERS MADE STATEMENTS

SIMILAR

TO THE FOLLOWING: "KENNEDY'S ELECTION AS PRESIDENT WOULD PROBABLY HAVE LED TO

AN ALTERATION OF

"THE

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FORCER MEMALE USA, "AEP

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HE HAD TO DIE."

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PRESIDENT

THROUGHT

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THE SOCIALIST

EXPRESSED

THAT THIS

WOULD

ENABLE

CERTAIN

ELEMENTS TO FLEE

THE DDR THROUGH THE CSSR AND WOULD ALLOW AGENTS AND

REVANCHISTS FROM WEST GERMANY TO BE BROUGHT IN TO SUPPORT THE COUNTER-

REVOLUTIONARY FORCES.

IT WAS ASKED: "HOW ABOUT THE COMMAND POSITIONS OF THE

ARMED FORCES OF THE CSSR--ARE THEY...IN. THE HANDSOF CONSCIOUS COMRADES OF THE

CZECHOSLOVAK COMMUNIST

PARTY (CPC):" #WILL

THE ARMED FORCES OF THE CSSR FULFILL

THEIR DUTIES WITHIN

THE WARSAW PACT:"

CITIZENS WHO HAVE VISITTED THE CSSR HAVE

STATED: "IN THE CITIES AND VILLAGES

THAN EVER.

NOW THE PEOPLE LIVE MORE

GREAT CONFIDENCE IN THE NEW PARTY

PRETE CORNE CHIDENT ON THE OSBE HAVENT

FREELY COSTHE E SIZENS OF THE OSSR HAVENT

"THE CITIZENS OF THE CSSR HAVE

ESTABLISHMENT OF ORDERLY CONDITIONS

" "WHY

IN ACCORDANCE WITH HER OWN IDEAS:

SHOULDN'T

THE CSSR BUILD SOCIALISM

IT WOULD BE SUFFICIENT

TE ThE SOCIALIST

_COUNTRIES OERELY OBSERVED,

TO MAKE CERTAIN THAT NO NONSENSE WAS

GOING ON. LET'S

NOT OVERSTIMATE THE DANGER IN THE CSSR: THE LEADING COMRADES OF THE CPC WILL

HANDLE THE SITUATION PROPERLY. " REPORTS BY THE DELEGATIONS THAT WERE_ IN THE

CSSR DURING THE PAST FEW DAYS REVELA THAT THERE IS NO UNIFORM CONCEPT AS TO THE

BASIC PROBLEMS OF THE LEADING ROLE OF THE PARTY,

THE POWER,

THE DEVELOPMENT OF

DEMOCRACY,

OR OF ECONOMIC AND GOVERNMENTAL RELATIONSHIPS.

THE REPORTS ALSO

REVEAL THAT THE DELEGATIONS OCCASIONALLY

ENCOUNTERED PEOPLE WHO WERE PREPARED

FOR THEM AND WHO ATTEMPTED TO DIRECT THE

DISCUSSION IN A PARTICULAR DIRECTION:

WITH THE JUSTIFICATION OF THEIR PATH AND THAT"WE" NEED HAVE NO WORRIES OVER THE

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DEVELOP- MENTS IN THE CSSR.

EVEN FUNCTIONARIES KNOVN TO DELEGATION MEMBERS OF

THE CPC EXHIBITED SUBJECTIVE CONCEPTS,

NATIONALIST TENDENCIES AND FUZZINESS

REGARDING BASIC QUESTIONS AND PRINCIPLES OF MARXISM-LENINISM ON THE LEADING

FAbEREA LAP AREA, ADOR PAGEAN RANCHE RIES ARE BELLS FLOS ME REGALE

THOSE IN THE AREAS

NERE UNABLE

TO JOIN IN CON- VERSATIONS OTHER

THAT OFFICIALLY SANCTIONED ONES

WITH PARTY AND

TRADE UNION FUNCTIONARIES OR TO ENGAGE IN DUSCUSSIONS WITH NORKERS.

IN ALL

CONVERSATIONS THE SUBJECTS OF

COMRADE HAGER'S SPEECH AND VARIOUS

"NEUES DEUTSCHLAND"

INVARIABLY CAME UP.

THEY WERE DESCRIBED AS GROSS

ARTICLES FROM

INTERVENTION

IN THE INTERNAL AFFAIRS OF THE CSSR.

DESPITE INSISTENCE THAT ALL

EFFORTS WERE STILL TOWARD THE CONSTRUCTION OF SOCIALISM AND

THAT FRIENDSHIP

WITH THE SOVIET UNION IS A NECESSARZ PREREQUISITE FOR THE

DEVELOPMENT OF THE

CSSR, TENDENCIES TOWARD ANTI-SOVIET OPINION APPEARED XXHII 785 NNNN

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