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• 1 2021-07-06T09:06:39-07:00 Folder 1 6 Description and key documents for Box 179, Folder 1. plain 2024-07-22T10:00:26-07:00 Folder 1 (63 documents) - 1963-1967 
  
  ​Contents:
  
  Telegrams, notes and memorandums covering a wide range of political topics relating to President Novotný, U.S. ambassadors to Czechoslovakia Outerbridge Horsey (1962-1966) and Jacob D. Beam (1966-1969), the Jordan Case and Czechoslovakian-Southeastern Asian political developments during the Vietnam War. The memos are largely focused on small political issues that affect Czech-U.S. relations. President Johnson is a prominent figure in most of these memos either as an author or the intended reader. The folder also includes a large amount of information about the case of an American Jewish businessman, Charles H. Jordan, who became lost in Prague and was later found dead in the Vltava River. Telegrams show that an increased KGB presence caused important Czech citizens to flee the country, and discuss planned economic measures projected to incite unrest among the Czech population.
  
  Key Documents:
  • Annotated Information of Jordan from the Jordan Case
  • Telegram Describing Czech Resistance to Government Economic Measures
  • Telegram Containing Message from Edward Kennedy to President Novotny
  • Telegram Providing Background on U.S.-Czech Agreement
  • Telegram Regarding American-Eastern European Relations
• 1 2021-07-06T09:06:39-07:00 Box 179 4 Many of the documents in Box 179 are communications from and to U.S. officials and high-level Czechoslovak politicians, illustrating internal and international discussions about regional geopolitics and potential futures during the eight months of the "Czechoslovak Crisis," which we now know as the Prague Spring. image_header 1093541 2024-07-22T08:34:46-07:00 Folder 1 (80 pages) - 1963-1967
  Contains telegrams, notes and memorandums covering internal telegrams covering a wide range of political topics relating to President Novotny, the Ambassador to Czechoslovakia, the Jordan Case, and Czech-U.S. relations, among other documents.

  Folder 2  (100 pages) - 1964-1967
  Contains telegrams, memos, and reports on Czech foreign and domestic policy between 1964-1967, as well as letters and memoranda including discourse from President Johnson, Kissinger, and Rostow with high-level Czechoslovak officials, among other documents.
  
  Folder 3 (65 pages) - March-August, 1968 
  Contains telegrams and CIA cables regarding U.S.-Czech relations and possible financial aid and intervention, along with correspondence considering Soviet reactions to Czech developments and the likelihood of Soviet military action, among other documents.
  
  Folder 4 (50 pages) - July-August, 1968
  Contains CIA situation teports on Czechoslovakia, memos and notes regarding USSR-Czech relations and communiqués, text and analysis of Alexander Dubček’s speech on August 2, 1968, and a memo from W.W. Rostow on Russian youth's views on Czechoslovakia, among other documents.
  
  Folder 5 (80 pages) - Mid-late July, 1968
  Contains CIA and National Security Council memos and reports on the “Czechoslovak crisis,” analyses of Czechoslovak situation and possible Soviet reactions, troops (including map) in the region, the possible spread of reformist tendencies to Ukraine, and the possible role and impact of trade, among other documents.
  
  Folder 6  (70 pages) - April-June, 1968
  Contains memoranda to President Johnson regarding the situation in Czechoslovakia and the advised response discussed with Jacob Beam and Secretary Rusk, discussions of Czechoslovakia’s need for Western support, and a report on East German fears of Czech influence on society, among other documents.
    
  Folder 7 (55 pages) - Summer, 1968
  Contains the 1968 Air Transport Agreement between the U.S. and Czechoslovakia, CIA and background memoranda on Air Transport negotiations, CIA intelligence memoranda on Czechoslovakia, and memoranda and notes on Novotny’s resignation, among other documents.
  
  Folder 8 (80 pages) - August, 1968 
  Contains telegrams and messages pertaining to the USSR intervention in Czechoslovakia during the Czech crisis, several telegrams concerning the U.S. Embassy in Czechoslovakia, and a chronology of all action taken by the United States during the Czech Crisis, among other documents.
  
  Folder 9 (95 pages) - August, 1968
  Contains a report detailing the chronology of events related to the occupation and invasion of Czechoslovakia, memoranda and reports regarding the consequences of Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, and statements and memoranda describing concern over the possibility of Soviet intervention in Romania, among other documents.
  
  Folder 10 (110 pages) - August, 1968 
  Contains numerous intelligence updates to the president regarding unrest and potential invasion in Czechoslovakia during the Prague Spring, a body of documents reflect U.S. observations of the failure of the Prague Spring and the reactions of Eastern European states including Romania, Hungary and Poland, and other documents.