CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1961/05/12

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CONTENTS
1. Laos. (Page t)
2.
Congo: UAR names ambassador to Stanleyville regime.
(Page it)
3. Iran: New prime minIster moves to prevent former of-
ficials from� leaving country. (Page it)
4. Cuba: High level of bloc shipping to and from Cuba
since late last year. (Page it)
5. Dominican Republic: Trujillo regime initiates amnesty
as gesture to appear more democratic. (Page tit)
6. UAR: Military mobilization exercise under way.
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*Laos he ICC, following a brief visit by the three corn-
missioners to Xieng Khouang where they had "successful" pre--44.,&4/.el-a--L4.,/
liminary talks with Souvanna Phouma and Souphannouvong, has 4'
sent a report to the Geneva conference co-chairmen�the USSR .
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and the UK--but it is uncertain yet whether this amounts to
formal verification of the existence of a cease-fire in Laos. /?,s
Chief delegates representing the Boun Oum government and 3
Souvanna met at Nam one on 11 May but failed to agree on a
site for holding both political and military talksj Li a
rgxcept for continued attacks on the Meo base at Pa Dong
no/
and scattered guerrilla actions elsewhere, the major opera= t/
tional areas remain quieg rt3t,
There is evidence
of friction in D5 0-; z
Phong Saly province between the Pathet Lao and troops loyal
to Souvanna Phouma.
Airlift flights are scheduled through 12 May.
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LIBERIA
200
INDIA
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MALAYA
470
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ETHIOPIA
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NIGERIA
Usumbura
Tanganyika
IRELAND
650
SWEDEN
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ongo:
airo has appointed an ambassador to the Gizenga re-
gime.' the ambassador is already
en route to Stanleyville. Although many Communist and Af-
rican states regard Gizenga's regime as the legal Congo gov-
ernment, only Mali and Yugoslavia have opened embassies in
Stanleyville, and only Mali has a resident ambassador. Cairo's
action may prompt other pro-Gizenga states to follow suit.
continued efforts by the
Gizenga regime to expand its foreign trade.
Oizenga al-
luded again to "large economic and financial problems" facing
his government, "to contact the German
financial group which is buying the cotton from us to advance
us 200 million francs." (Backup,
Page 4) (Map)
Iran: .1rime Minister Amini, apparently in a move to pre-
vent officials from leaving the country to avoid charges of cor-
ruption, has instituted rigorous controls on the issuance of pass-
ports and exit visas. The government is also reported to be
planning measures to prevent the transfer to capital abroad.
There are unconfirmed reports that a number of officials of the
previous government have been arrested, including former
Prime Minister Eqbal, former Minister of the Interior Alavi-
Moqadam, the former intelligence chief for the supreme com-
mander's staff, General Haj All Kia, and former Minister of
Finance General Ali Akbar arciarn3
he government's economic development program, an
on 11 May, calls for a new tax program and control
of inflation, and highlights the need for carrying out land re-
form, legislation for which has already been enacted but has
not been enforced. Amini has appointed a competent, pro--
Western official, Safi Asfia, as deputy prime minister and
director of the Plan Organization, the body which will 3dmin-
istpr the peonomic develonment nroera.mi
uommunist Bloc - tsupa: in meeting its extensive eco-
nomic commitments to the 0a,stro regime, the Sino-Soviet
bloc has maintained a high level of shipping to and from Cuba
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since late last year. Bloc and bloc-chartered vessels have
been in Cuban waters constantly and about 35 are currently
en route to Cuba from the bloc. Since the beginning of 1.961
at least 180 voyages by Soviet, East European, and Western
merchant ships have been made, delivering bloc cargoes to
Cuba. Fulfilling the contracts to supply more than 4,000,000
tons of petroleum and to buy 4,000,000 tons of sugar in 1961
will require roughly 300 tanker voyages to Cuba and more than
4 -cargo voyages in the other direction.
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Dominican Republic: The Trujillo regime has launched
another of its periodic efforts to convince foreign opinion that
it is becoming more democratic. The lower house of the
Trujillo-dominated legislature approved a measure on 10 May
granting a blanket pardon for opposition elements, at home
and in exile. The upper house is likely to endorse the meas-
ure. The maneuver is unlikely to trap many Dominican dis-
sidents, who remember that such tactics in the past have been
followed by ruthless suppression. It is aimed primarily at
reducing the isolation to which the regime has been subjected
by the other American republics since last summer when it
was unanimously condemned for suppressing human rights at
home and for intervening in the affairs of other countries.
This followed a Dominican attempt to assassinate the Vene-
zuelan President;
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UAR: The planned UAR military mobilization exercise
involving units of both the First (Syrian) and Second (Egyp-
tian) Army has begun.
the movement of an Egyptian artillery battalion to
Syria beginning that day. sup-
plies including considerable quantities of anti-tank mines,
wire obstacles, and bridge equipment had been dispatched
from Egypt to arrive in Syria no later than 13 May. Air force
particIpation in the exercise was noted in connection with
Egyptian practice radar tracking on the evening of 10 May.
The Israelis, who have very good intelligence on UAR military
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cautionary alert.
INTELLI E
REPORTS AND ESTIMATES
(Available during the preceding week)
French Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Delivery Capabili-
ties. Ti. S. I. B. SNIE 22-61. 9 May 1961.
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Situation in Laos
Pathet
Lao troops were "putting pressure" on several villages in the
province which were occupied by troops loyal to Souvanna.
Colonel Khammouan,who sup-
ports Souvanna,
It was all right for the Pathet Lao to propagandize
for their party--the Neo Lao Hak Sat--"but let us not have
. any pressure from armed groups."
the Pathet Lao were under orders from their commanders "to
cease all pressure on villages occupied by us,'
Should such
friction continue between the two rebel forces, it could have
a significant effect on the degree of cooperation between the
Souvanna Phoun7 and Pathet Lao delegations at Geneva.
King Savang, opening the National Assembly on 11 May,
reaffirmed his support for the present government and dis-
missed Souvanna's pretensions as "legal" premier. In his
address, the King urged Sihanouk to continue his efforts to
achieve international recognition of Laotian neutrality. Pos-
sibly in quick reaction to this peace offering, Sihanouk an-
nounced that he will attend the Geneva Conference after all.
At about 1:00 A. M. on 11 May in Vientiane, Major
Eckarath, an aide and confidant of General Phoumi, was
shot and killed by unknown assailants. Eckarath, oneof the
more competent officers in the Lao army, was a relative of
the King and Souvanna's nephew. He was director of plans
and operations in the Defense Ministry. It is not known
whether his assassination was politically inspired.
Phoumi says he will leave on 12 May for Geneva. He
believes Souvanna and Souphannouvong will be showing up at
Geneva and feels the three might meet there. Phoumi told
Ambassador Brown on 11 May that Souvanna had contacted
him to suggest a meeting in Phnom Penh, which Phoumi said
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would be agreeable to him.
a desire by Boun Oum to meet with Souvanna and Sou-
phannouvong, expresses Souvanna's willingness to meet either
at the Plaine des Jarres or at Phnom Penh.
Uh. e Indian delegation to Geneva appears to be going with
little preparation and no major proposals to advance. Krishna
Menon, who departed for Geneva on 11 May to lead the delega-
tion, indicated in conversation with US Embassy officials in
- New Delhi that the Indians would not raise any provocative
questions. He agreed that the problem of a coalition govern-
ment--presumably including Souvanna and Pathet Lao reprem
sentatives�shouldbeworkedout by the Laotians without outside
interference. Menon said he planned to be away from the con--
ference much of the time--presumably leaving Commonwealth
Secretary Gundevia in charge. While this also suggests that
New Delhi does not plan any major move at this tin2.9 Menon
told the press that Nehru would go to Geneva "if the necessity
arose." Krishna Menon is likely to play an active mediatory
role while he is present, and probably will focus his efforts on
reconciling the American and Soviet positions with regard to
the establishment of a neutral Laos. The Indians may go out
of their way to cooperate with Soviet delegates as a part of
their continuing effort to counter Chinese Communist influence.
8 May broadcast by the North Vietnamese -
dominated National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam
(NFLSV) calls on the 14-nation Geneva Conference to "hear
the serious accusations of the people of South Vietnam vis-a-
vis the American imperialists' policy of aggression in South
Vietnam." Hanoi, which usually publicizes such statements
by the Front, has not yet been this specific, but on 9 May,it .
did broadcast a NFLSV demand that the Geneva Conference co-
chairmen "take appropriate measures to prevent US maneuvers
against the South Vietnamese people."
last year that the Front was ordered into being by
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Hanoi; the North Vietnamese advertise it as a spontaneous
movement of South Vietnamese "patriots."
Bloc airlift operations on 10 May involved a total of 22
sorties. Of this number at least five Soviet IL-14s were
noted in flights from Hanoi to the Nam Bac area north of
Luang Prabang and return. On the same day six other bloc
transports flew round-trip flights between Hanoi and Xieng
Khouang.
A similar opera-
tion was carried out in late April. These flights to southern
North Vietnam suggest logistical support operations for Com-
munist forces in southern Laos and possibly South Vietnam.
A Soviet AN-12 was scheduled from Irkutsk to Peiping
on 10 May. This AN-12, which has been previously involved
in Soviet airlift support operations, is probably destined for
North Vietnam.
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� The Situation in the Congo
About 17 countries�mainly from the bloc and the radical
African states have "recognized" Gizenga as the head of the
legal Congo government. They have for the most part not
opened embassies in Stanleyville, partly because the UN rec-
ognizes Kasavubu as the Congo's chief of state and partly be-
cause of Stanlevville's isolated location.
the UAR ambassador will be accompanied by
a staff of five.
'Ehe American Consulate in Elisabethville reports that as
yet there has been no sharp reaction on the part of the Katanga
government or population to the news of Tshombe's imprison-
ment and arraignment. The Elisabethville radio, however, has
characterized the Leopoldville government as "having made a
mockery of all human decency... by falling on the only man who
managed to save what could be saved in a country delivered to
the incompetent hands of a gang of apprentice sorcerers." � The
Leopoldville radio, for its part, has interspersed its programs
with appeals to Katanga for calm)
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Bloc Maintains High Volume of Shipping in Cuban Trade
Thus far in 1961, at least 200 cargoes of Cuban sugar
have been loaded for delivery to the bloc. If shipment is
continued at this rate, the bloc's purchase commitment for
the year, can be fulfilled. Of the 180 deliveries from the bloc,
about 80 were of petroleum and 7 of major arms.
The bloc's trade with Cuba prior, to 1960 was confined to
occasional sugar deals requiring relatively limited amounts
of shipping. Since the conclusion of the first Soviet-Cuban
economic agreements in February 1960, which were followed
by similar agreements with the rest of the bloc, a large vol-
ume of shipping has gradually developed. In July, when Castro
seized the US and British oil refineries and the USSR assumed
an obligation to supply all of Cuba's petroleum requirements,
Soviet shipping to Cuba underwent a rapid build-up. Through
the latter, half of 1960 the volume and variety of bloc goods
moving to Cuba increased steadily, as did the volume of sugar
moving to bloc ports. Finally, in December, when the bloc
agreed to take as much as 4,000,000 tons of Cuban sugar in
1961, the number of bloc and bloc-chartered ships in the
Cuban trade reached the high level which has since been main-
tained with little change.
The use of chartered Western vessels is vitally important
to the bloc in providing its support to Cuba. A large part of
the East European goods moving to Cuba, including machinery
and equipment, consumer goods, and foodstuffs, is delivered
on nonbloc ships, as are all of the Chinese exports to Cuba.
Roughly half the Soviet petroleum being delivered to Cuba is
shipped on Western tankers. Although sugar is being carried
on many bloc vessels, more than half has been loaded aboard
chartered Western merchantmen.
Soviet petroleum deliveries have been more than adequate
to cover Havana's requirements and recently have been reduced
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because Cuba's refining and storage capacity is inadequate to
accommodate the previous rate of delivery. Shipments have
averaged more than 300,000 tons a month since last August,
but in mid-April the Cuban petroleum agency was forced to
request a slowdown to 250,000 tons in April and May! Unless
receiving capacity can be increased, deliveries will fall below
the 4,400,000 tons scheduled for the year.
� Communist China, although engaged in a massive grain
import program requiring extensive chartering of Western
vessels, has not neglected its commitments to Cuba. This
year Peiping has delivered about 85,000 tons of rice and smaller
quantities of corn, meat, and other foodstuffs. Most of the rice
being shipped by the Chinese has come directly from Burma.
This year more than 50 Western vessels have been chartered
by the Chinese to pick up sugar in Cuba.
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THE PRESIDENT
The Vice President
Executive Offices of the White House
The Special Assistant for National Security Affairs
The Scientific Adviser to the President
The Director of the Budget
The Director, Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization
The Director, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Chairman, Board of Consultants on Foreign Intelligence Activities
The Department of State
The Secretary of State
The Under Secretary of State
The Director, International Cooperation Administration
The Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
The Deputy Under Secretary of State for Administration
The Counselor and Chairman of the Policy Planning Council
The Director of Intelligence and Research
The Treasury Department
The Secretary of the Treasury
The Department of Defense
The Secretary of Defense
The Deputy Secretary of Defense
The Secretary of the Army
The Secretary of the Navy
The Secretary of the Air Force
The Assistant Secretary of Defense (International Security Affairs)
The Assistant to Secretary of Defense (Special Operations)
The Chairman, The Joint Chiefs of Staff
Chief of Naval Operations, United States Navy
Chief of Staff, United States Air Force
Chief of Staff, United States Army
Commandant, United States Marine Corps
U.S. Rep., Military Committee and Standing Group, NATO
Supreme Allied Commander, Europe
Commander in Chief, Pacific
The Director, The Joint Staff
The Director for Intelligence, The Joint Staff
The Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Department of Army
The Director of Naval Intelligence, Department of Navy
The Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence, Department of the Air Force
The Department of Justice
The Attorney General
The Federal Bureau of Investigation
The Director
The Atomic Energy Commission
The Chairman
The National Security Agency
The Director
The United States Information Agency
The Director
The National Indications Center
The Director
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