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- Mr. Belmont 1 - Mr. Baumgardner - Mr. Decker 1 - Liaison Section Dedember10,1959 IPORUATION COICERNTIIG.STAREHNNTS BY A HLGH-RANKING ORNICIAD OP THS COUIISD CEECHOSLOVAKIA Sources which havo furnishod reliable irfommation in the. paat to the Fnr havg reported that Gustay Coucels, hcad of the International Department of tho Contral Comnittce of the Communist. Party of Czcchoslovakiamade thd following statemcnto in Prngue, Czcchoslovakia, during thg month of Hovembor 1959 Guotav Soucek stated thgt tha Cormunist Party, UsA,and the Communiot Party of Czochoslovakia should ctriye fon closer contacts and pointcd out that tho. motnodo of mnking contaoto mugt bo improved. Hc btated that concral information concorning Comnuniat Party mattora coula bo exchanged betwecn the Communiet Party UsA and Czcchoslovakia through a nowd tcency rather than through tho.Czcdhoslovakian Embasoy in the United States He relcaseo to bourgeois newspapora and theae prcos relcascs could also bc cent to the Communist Panty,.UsA, furntshing tho latter information Such ad thd reneral development of the cconony in Czechoolovakia. Ha indicatcd that the Czcchoslovakian Information Acency is controlled by thg Coxmuniot'Party of Czcchoslovakla Soucel cont.nued that as rcdult of the dorection of Lleutenant Coionoi Frantipok niglers the formor Czcchoslovakian miltaryattachg in tna United Stnteson July 25.lgsg.thd formor contacts with.the Communiot PartyyUsA.He daid that Tisleny defection has causcd thc Czgchoslovakians to male. hard and dnoesint, changes.'Soucek romarked that the. Czcchoslovakians nos have a Reww ambassador in thc Unitod Statos Hiloslav Ruzek whom he charccterizod as a very capable comrade and.dipiomat. Ruzek isx coing to change thg entire peroonnel ot tho Ccecnoslovakion Embassyy mothod of making contactg witn menbers of the Communiet Party USA, and.to yse illegal channels anly whon nbsolutoly ngcegaary Tolso Belmont SEE NOTE ON YELLOW, PAGE FIVE DeLoach McGuie yon AJD:med:ra$ Parson's Rosep (i1) Tamm Trotte W.C.Sulllivan Tele.Room Gandy MAILROOM TELETYPE UNIT ENCLOSURE