CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1960/12/20

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02066873
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• Document Creation Date: March 17, 2020
• Document Release Date: March 26, 2020
• Publication Date: December 20, 1960

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20 DECEMBER 1960
I. THE COMMUNIST BLOC
Germany�Interzonal trade talks nearing
climax.
II. ASIA-AFRICA
Laos--Pathet Lao skirmishing around
Luang Praliang and in Xieng Khouang
Province.
Indonesia- -High-level delegation leaving
for naval and air force assistance talks
in Moscow.
Nepal--King has now detained almost all
key politicians; intends to rule directly
for some time.
Congo--Morocco delays withdrawal of UN
contingent; USSR threatens aid to Stanley-
ville dissidents.
III. THE WEST
Cuba--West German ambassador tells
Cubans his government neutral in "Cuban-c7,
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
20 December 1960
DAILY BRIEF
I. THE COMMUNIST BLOC
*Berlin:an an effort to prod Bonn into reinstating the
interzonal trade agreement which otherwise will lapse on
31 December, the East German mass media threaten "seri-
ous disorders." however, East German officials
indicate they will make important concessions if the West
Germans reinstate the agreement. Soviet Ambassador Per-
vukhin told Ambassador Dowling on 16 December that Berlin
access problems could always be settled by Soviet-US bilat-
eral talks, suggesting that Moscow is not interested in a
showdown at this point
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*Laos:! LThe Luang Prabang garrison commander states
the P�a"-ER ao have conducted light skirmishes with his
forces during the past two weeks; the Pathets could mount
a major attack if they are able to regroup and bring up rein- -I-)
forcements. Pathet Lao elements, reportedly aided by North Jr
Vietnamese elements, are apparently exerting strong pres-
sure on a government outpost in eastern Xieng Khouang Prov-
inc0Shuttle flights by Soviet IL 14s between Canton and Hanoi
indicate that the cargo brought in by the AN-12s which arrived
at Canton on 18 December is being ferried to Hanoi. Chinese
Communist transports meanwhile continue their airlift opera-
tions between Nanning and Hanoi. North Vietnam's call for
another Geneva conference was supported by the Chinese Com-
munist Government in an official statement on 19 December
and by Cambodia's Prince Sihanouk, who told a Peiping rally
that Laos should be considered by a "new" international con-
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Indonesia: A high-level Indonesian delegation, includ-
ing National Security Minister and Army Chief. of Staff Gen-
eral Nasution, will arrive in Moscow late this month, appar- A
ently with the dual mission of negotiating more favorable 0
terms for new navy and air force aid programs and accel-
erating the transaction. he mission may be led by Foreign'
Minister Subandrio. General Nasution represented the mis-
sion as a reaction to statements from The Hague on its dis-
patch of reinforcements to Netherlands New Guinea. The
prospective purchases reportedly total $277,000,000 for the
navy and $100.000.000 for the air forct,1
(Page..)
Nepal: King Mahendra's continuing roundup of political
leaders since his takeover on 15 December has now taken out
of circulation nearly all of Nepal's key politicians, including
three former prime ministers. alahendra reportedly intends
to rule directly for some time, choosing his own council of
ministers as he has during; previous periods of palace rule3
The army apparently remains completely loyal to the King,
and the populace is quiescent.
(Page 5)
*Congo:
Morocco plans
to delay the withdrawal of its UN contingent in the Congo "u.n-
til a decision could be reached by African states" concerning
possible joint action with regard to the Stanleyville dissident
regime. p.a bat , like
Cairo, has had second thoughts on withdrawal from the Congo;
the UAR as yet has made no move to implement the intended
withdrawal of its UN battalion, announced on 7 December.
Ghanaian President Nkrurnah has urged that Lumumba's Afri-
can allies not pull out of the UN force, but support the dissi-
dents in Orientale Province. The USSR may be preparing to
assist in supplying material aid to Gizenga's group. Soviet UN
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ber that "the US i
making preparatii.,
There is as v,
Austrian ambassador on 16 Decem-
_mg preparations now, and we are
confirmation
.27tat the USSR has obtained per-
JAL or flights to Stanleyville. UN
la 'Leopoldville has stated that three
-Jed at Stanleyville between 10 and
he UN "believes" themtflaveheen
mission to overfly
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14 December, but
UAR aircraft.
1 THE WEST
Cuba: In his c1 tc, -232uade the Castro regime from
establishing diplorn: rel:ions with East Germany, the
West German a.mb�,..., �:-ar id the acting Cuban foreign min-
ister that West.Gery haz nothing against the Cuban Gov-
ernment and is neutral insy2ar as the "Cuban-US quarrel is
concerned.", The Ar,--7.an c..arge notes that there is prob-
ably not a single for :i chief sT, mission in Havana, with the
exception of certain, nii:nerican ambassadors, who has
condemned to high Caa c:licials the violation of human rights
by the Castro regimeo criticized its raoorochement hthe
Sino-Soviet bloc.
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Situation in Laos
the Pathet Lao tor the past two weeks had been engaged in
light probing actions against the royal capital but that his
forces had succeeded in preventing any major Pathet attack.
does not believe the Pathet Lao would be able to
mount any offensive against the town without extensive re-
grouping and reinforcements. He expects Captain Kong Le
may move to the Luang Prabang area to join with the Pathet
Lao in an attack on the capital. it would
take at least a week for Kong Le 's forces to arrive in the
area.
More detailed information, just made available, on Kong
Le's withdrawal from Vientiane indicates that from 500 to 700
troops left with him. These probably include approximately
three companies of paratroopers and some irregular elements
drawn mainly from the leftist youth movement which developed
after his 9 August coup. Eight armored cars and one M-24 tank
c.1,7ithdrawing on the road toward Luang Prabang.
It is estimated that Kong Le may retain from two to four 105-
mm. howitzers and two 120-mm, mortars out of the equipment
brought in by Soviet IL-14s before General Phoumi launched
his attack on Vientiane. Kong Le probably is now about 25 miles
north of Vientiane.
In Xieng Khouang Province, Pathet Lao forces are report-
edly exerting strong pressure on Nong Het. a government out-
post near the North Vietnamese border.
a North Vietnamese battalion has been sup-
porting the Pathet Lao with mortar fire. General Phoumi earlier
had been reported as convinced that the next big Pathet Lao effort
would be directed toward Xienglthouang. Phoumi planned to send
reinforcements to the area.
The three Soviet AN-12 heavy transports which arrived at
Canton from the USSR on 18 December will not continue on to
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Hanoi as they were originally scheduled to do but are to fly
to Peiping on 20 December. Flights by Soviet IL44s between
Hanoi and Canton on 18 and 19, and three flights scheduled
for 20 December indicate that the cargo ferried in by the
AN-12s is being transshipped to Hanoi. Soviet and Chinese
Communist transports continued to shuttle between Nanning
and Hanoi through 19 December. Five of the Soviet IL-14s
flew from Hanoi to the Vientiane area on 19 December, and
five are scheduled to fly two round trips eaoh�irom }lanai/0
Vientiane on 20 December. Also scheduled for 20 December
is the flight of three North Vietnamese transports from Hanoi
to Sam Neua, On 19 December, three North Vietnamese trans=
ports were taking off
from Sam Neua. This is the first confirmation that North Viet-
namese aircraft have landed at Sam Neua, although previous
fliahts to the area
a North Viet=
namese helicopter en route to Laos may have crashed.
contact with the helicopter was lost on 17 Decem-
ber and it was still unreported as of 18 December.
Chou En-lai on 19 December forwarded to Hanoi a "second
Chinese Government statement on the situation in Laos" which
noted that Peiping holds that the Laotian question should be set-
tled by the Laotian people the:mselves without foreign interfer-
ence. It condemned US imperialism for the grave situation in
Laos. The statement gave full support to the 17 December North
Vietnamese proposal for reconvening another Geneva conference
and reactivating the ICC in Laos.
Prince Sihanouk told a Peiping rally on 19 December that
"a new conference like the 1954 Geneva meeting on Indochina"
should be convened to consider Laos. Hanoi will view Sihanouk's
comment as evidence of neutral support for the North Vietnamese
call for another Geneva conference and reactivation of the ICC.
The ICC for Vietnam also has been the recipient of another North
Vietnamese protest calling for "urgent measures to stop the dan-
gerous activities of the US 7th Fleet in South Vietnam." US fleet
movements were linked to events in Laos by North Vietnam's
chief of staff, General Vo Nguyen Giap, who sent the protest to
the ICC in Vietnam on 17 December.
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