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• 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.

• 1 2021-07-06T09:06:39-07:00 Folder 5 4 Description and key documents for Box 179, Folder 5. plain 2024-07-22T09:00:13-07:00 Folder 5 (28 documents) - mid-late July, 1968
  
  Contents:
  
  CIA and National Security Council memoranda and reports on the developing “Czechoslovak crisis,” analyses of the Czechoslovak situation and possible Soviet reactions, and descriptions of troops (including a map of the troops) in Czechoslovakia. Also includes discussion of a possible spread of reform tendencies to Ukraine, of the possible role and impact of trade on the situation in Czechoslovakia, and a translated TV and radio speech of Alexander Dubček from July 27, with analysis of speech. Also includes numerous discussions of possible U.S. actions and United States military contingency plans in the case of a Soviet invasion or Czechoslovak uprising.
  
  Key Documents: 
  • Full Text of Speech by Dubček
  • Map of Military Divisions Near Czechoslovakia
  • Report on Czechoslovakia and Ukraine
  • Report on Czech Developments (July 1968)