Cable Regarding United States Place in Czech Crisis
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On the night of August 20, 1968, Soviet forces invaded the Czechoslovakian Socialist Republic to suppress what they saw as a uncontrollable current of rebellion against the Soviet Union. The uprising known in English as the Prague Spring ran from January to August 1968, as the then-Czechoslovak Socialist Republic attempted to liberalize and assert national interests against the Soviet Union. Most of reformist leader Alexander Dubček's goals were not realized, and the only lasting change was that of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic's division into the Czech and Slovak Socialist Republics. This archive brings together intelligence documents, diplomatic communiqués, and commentaries on then-current events, casting light on how LBJ and other global leaders navigated a tense geopolitical situation.
This project is a subsection of Documenting the Cold War, a collaboration between the UT's Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, the University of Texas at Austin Libraries, and the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library. The site hosts several themed educational modules with documents collected in the archives, which are available for use in the classroom or to practice your own research skills. If you're interested in learning more about the Prague Spring, LBJ and the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic is a good place to start. If you're looking for the archives, the full document collection associated with Documenting the Cold War can be browsed at Texas ScholarWorks, and individual boxes can be browsed here.
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Description and key documents for Box 179, Folder 3.
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Folder 3 (32 documents) - March-August, 1968
Contents:
Folder 3 contains telegrams and CIA cables regarding U.S.-Czech relations and possible financial aid and intervention, discussions of returning Nazi-looted gold to act as a screen for aid, and correspondence considering Soviet reactions to Czech developments and the likelihood of Soviet military action. Several documents deal with the case of Czech general Jan Sejna, who defected from the CSR to the United States in early 1968 at the beginning of the Prague Spring. Other telegrams reveal U.S. officials' alarm at accusations of U.S. intervention, possibly originating from Soviet intelligence. Also includes Czech analysis of Sino-Soviet relations and their possible impact on future U.S.-U.S.S.R. cooperation and ongoing Czech political developments.
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