THE STATE OF SINO-SOVIET RELATIONS AT THE NEW YEAR

A Classified Working paper from the US Intelligence....


Moreover, the Soviet party had additional motives f o r
restraint:
of certain of the members of its own camp* in the event of
a break with the CCP, and on the other hand it still had some
hopes of reversing the tide in certain of the parties which
had been leaning toward Peiping. It is known that the CPSU in
t h i s period felt that a final decision had not yet been
made in North Vietnam, thought it still had a chance in the
' Indonesian party, and professed to believe that there might
still be opportunities in one or more of the pro-Chinese group
of Japan, North Korea, and New Zealand.**