CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Publication Date: December 13, 1967

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Central Intelligence Bulletin
CONTENTS
Vietnam: Situation report. (Page 1)
Cyprus: Troop withdrawals and "normalization"
forts may bring new trouble. (Page 3)
Laos: The Communists have launched new offensives.
"(Pife 5)
Communist China: The grain harvest has probably
been good, but food collection and distribution re-
main a problem. (Page 6)
Dahomey: President Soglo has set off a major inter-
nal crisis. (Page 7)
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*Vietnam:
South Vietnam: Some Communist main force
units apparently hope to evade major contact with allied
forces sweeping northern Tay Ninh Province.
Nine battalions of US and South Vietnamese troops
began Operation YELLOWSTONE in Tay Ninh last week.
Their mission involves sweep operations against Corn-
mu.nist War Zone "C" and the construction of Special
Forces camps and an advance artillery position.
Probably in anticipation of such operations, most
of the 6,100-man North Vietnamese 7th Division has
relocated in recent weeks from Tay Ninh to positions
in Binh Long and Binh Duong provinces. The Commu-
nists may also hope that their new positions will
facilitate harassment of allied rear areas. Such ac-
tions would be intended to impede the concentration of
allied forces in Tay Ninh,
North Vietnam: Hanoi has broken its silence re-
garding recent Vietnam-related activities at the United
Nations by issuing a sharply worded denunciation of
US efforts to bring the Vietnam problem before the
Security Council.
The unyielding attitude of the North Vietnamese
was spelled out in an authoritative article in the party
daily, Nhan DanIon 12 December. The article stated
that the US was up to its "old tricks" and reiterated
Hanoi's long-standing view that the "UN has no juris-
diction whatsoever to settle the Vietnam problem."
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Cyprus: New trouble may develop as efforts get
under way to carry out troop withdrawals and to
"normalize" relations between the Greek and Turkish
communities.
The troop withdrawal problem involves a difference
in interpretation of key provisions of the agreement of
3 December which ended the immediate threat of
Turkish military intervention on Cyprus. Athens is
withdrawing the unauthorized Greek troops from the
island, but is hedging on the question of Greek officers
and noncommissioned officers assigned to the Greek
Cypriot National Guard.
The Turks insist that all Greek military personnel
in excess of the Greek contingent authorized by the
1960 London- Zurich agreements must leave the island.
The problem is complicated because estimates vary
widely on the number of Greeks serving with the Na-
tional Guard and on the Turkish military personnel in-
tegrated into the Turkish Cypriot "fighters" organiza-
tions.
Cypriot President Makarios has pushed for the
withdrawal of all non-Cypriot troops, except for the
UN force, including the Greek officers with the guard
and the legal Greek and Turkish contingents.
On Cyprus, Makarios' normalization program ap-
pears to be getting off to a slow start. The Greek
Cypriots have offered to withdraw elements of the Na-
tional Guard from advance positions and to abandon
several forward military posts if the Turkish Cypriots
agree to abandon their "first line" of defense in the
southern city of Larnaca. This has been a particular
sore point for the Greeks. These moves would then
lead to a broader normalization program to include
Nicosia and the northern Turkish enclave of Kokkina.
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The initial Turkish Cypriot reaction was negative,
but the real decision is up to Ankara. If this limited
normalization effort fails, the US Embassy in Nicosia
believes a broader UN-sponsored pacification program
would appear to have little chance.
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