CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Publication Date: November 7, 1967

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DIRECTORATE OF
INTELLIGENCE
Central Intelligence Bulletin
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\TRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN is produced by the
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the National Security Council, and other senior government officials. It
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WARNING
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0; ;he United States within the meaning of the espionage laws, US Code
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CONTENTS
Vietnam: Situation report, (Page 1)
USSR-Cuba: Tensions increase since Guevara's
death. (Page 4)
South Arabia: Trouble in Aden (Page 8)
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*Vietnam:
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South Vietnam: The focus of enemy action in north-
ern III Corps area shifted from Loc Ninh to the Song Be -
Phuoc Binh area 25 miles farther east on 5 November.
Ninety-six South Vietnamese Army soldiers and 15
enemy troops were killed during two skirmishes some
three miles south of Song Be. Another 33 South Viet-
namese were wounded, as were three US advisers.
Twenty-five South Vietnamese are listed as missing.
Elements of the North Vietnamese 88th Regiment may
have been involved in the action. The 88th staged a
ground assault on a South Vietnamese Army outpost in
this area on 27 October, just before the start of theweek-
long series of assaults against Loc Ninh.
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Enemy plans for further attacks are apparent in
two areas of the central highlands. There have been
several sharp skirmishes and enemy mortar attacks
in the past few days in both Darlac Province and the
Dak To area of Kontum Province,
recently captured prisoners also indi-
cate that the Communists anticipate additional action
in these areas
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USSR-Cuba: The underlying tension in Soviet-
Cuban relations has increased since the death of Che
Guevara and the collapse of the Bolivian guerrilla
movement.
Moscow eulogized Guevara when his death was an-
nounced. Shortly thereafter, however, the Soviet press
published articles by two Latin American Communists
critical of the Castro regime's attempts to export rev-
olution. The timing of these articles must have seemed
provocative to the Cubans, and this may account for
their having sent a low-level delegation to the Soviet
50th anniversary celebrations. The Soviets apparently
had expected President Dorticos to attend.
Soviet party chief Brezhnev indirectly chastised
the Cubans further in his speech last Friday. The
Cubans were a target of his comment that "Marxist-
Leninists have always understood that gocialism can-
not be transplanted from one country to the other by
means of armed force." Perhaps in reaction, the Cu-
ban ambassador failed to join other members of the dip-
lomatic corps in a call on President Podgorny yester-
day.
Tie flow of So-
viet economic and military assistance to Cuba continues,
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and a Cuban trade delegation has been in Moscow since
mid-October engaged ln typically prolonged negotiations.
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South Arabia: The South Arabian Army has aban-
doned its neutrality in the Aden fighting and declared
its support for the National Liberation Front. Follow-
ing five days of bloody fighting in which more than 100
Arabs were killed and some 300 wounded, the army has
asked the Front and the British High Commissioner to
negotiate for immediate independence. It is not clear
whether the army's move arises from a final political
split among its officers, or from a desire to climb on
the Liberation Front band wagon. In any event, ending
the army's pacifying role in divided Aden probably will
lead to still more bloodshed as the Front's opponents
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