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. 9. Widespread Soviet.activity reported in Albania (page 8) .

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10. Austria acUng to reduce Communist police strength (page 9).

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- 7. US Embassy Moscow comments on possible Soviet e!PanSionist moves

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mara' s assassination and on alleged US efforts-
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• Embassy in M10scow points out that the USSR, by thus blaming all dis-
tp\ibances that may occur in Iran on the ·,us. could be. paving the way for I
an even:more vigorous policy toward Iran. The Emba,ssy suggests that
• such a policy migJtt involve invoking the 1921 Iranian-USSR treaty and
in,tervening militarily in Iran in order to "defend1' that country from
• foreign domination. As to the possibility that the USSR will achieve its
goal of playing a paramount role in Iran without invoking military mea~ •
sures -- and thus without risking a major war -.-:- the Embassy notes how
• welcome. to the USSR is the movement to nationalize the franian oil indus-
try. In the Embassy's opinion, the USSR will increase its pressure on Iran
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• spring maneuvers on the Iranian border, and several ref·erences to the
1921 treaty have been noted in Communist propaganda, While these un-
doubtedly will be utilized by the USSR as part of its war of nerves against
• Iran, the;re is no evidence that the USSR is·contemplating military action
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• ments op the oil question, and earlier reports of possible Soviet prepara-
tions (at the USSR-Iranian trade and financial talks) for rer,pening the
• i~sue of oil concessions, ~uggest that the USSR may now renew its efforts
to gain a measure of control Over rranian on fields. 3.3(h)(2)
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and industry, but reports no Russian trooos in 'the countrv with the ex-
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- other Satellites are required to furnish food and miscellaneous materi-
als to support the new Albanian Five Year plan, while the USSR sends
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the country is one Soviet aeroflot plane weekly, while two new YAK-9
fighter planes patrol Tirana, reportedly in order t() stop clandestine
• overflights. The atta<;he reports that heavily armed guards patrol the
blacked-out streets at night .
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sis on economic aid, with the probabl'e aim of shoring up the stability
of' the Albanian reg~e. The Yugoslav G~vernment still allows some
Soviet overflight~ 01Albania, but makes ··such permission contingent on ✓
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• medta.te step s to rem ove · Com mu nist s from

- the pol ice for ces , beg inn ing wit h the disc
Vienna adm inis trat ive pol ice. Hel me
would be con(\ucted mo re slow ly bec aus e
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on the .grounds of pro -Co mm uni st sen
gov ern men t to dis mis s pol ice offi cer s
tim ent s. Hel mer added tha t he has
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- sent a reli abl e pol ice offi cer to Gra z (sec ond for Com mun b,t suc ces s the re.
in:ftltration) to elim ina te tho se resp ons ible ngl y res ist any me asu res
Donnelly com men ts tha t the USSR wil l stro tion on the pol ice forc e and
calc ula ted to red uce Com mu nist rep rese
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• Comment~ 'Fh-e sur pris ing ly stro ng pro -
ice union elec tion s pro mp ted a
Com mu nist vot e in the rec ent Vie nna pol
rev eale d tha t Com mu nist stre ngt h
• US- UK sur vey of Aus tria n pol ice, whi ch
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