CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Publication Date: October 31, 1967

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Central Intelligence Bulletin
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31 October 1967
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The CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN is produced by the
Director of Central Intelligence to meet his responsibilities for providing
current intelligence bearing on issues of national security to the President,
the National Security Council, and other senior government officials. It
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CONTENTS
Vietnam: Situation report. (Page 1)
USSR: Soviet spacecraft docking probably is a
forerunner of manned event. (Page 3)
Communist China - Indonesia: Exchange of
diplomats (Page 4)
Czechoslovakia-Iraq: Arms purchase (Page 4)
USSR: Solid propellant ICBM (Page 4)
USSR: Underground shot (Page 5)
Peru: Labor unrest eases (Page 5)
Congo (Kinshasa): Cease-fire hopes fade (Page 5)
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*Vietnam:
North Vietnam: Despite recent heavy MIG losses
and damage to its principal airfields, Hanoi apparently
intends to maintain at least a limited jet fighter capability.
the runways
at all of North Vietnam's major airfields again have ser-
viceable landing surfaces. This includes the primary
field at Phuc Yen where flight forecasts resumed on
28 October.
By keeping a few MIGs at bases in the Hanoi/Hai-
phong area and shuttling replacement aircraft to and
from reserves in Communist China, North Vietnam can
maintain a jet fighter threat. It would force US bomber
groups to be accompanied by fighter cover while expos-
ing only a small portion of Hanoi's air establishment.
There are no signs that Hanoi intends to operate
directly out of Chinese bases. The distance from these
fields to the Hanoi area would greatly reduce the time the
MIGs could maintain defensive patrols.
a third
North Vietnamese artillery regiment may have shifted
into the area just north of the Demilitarized Zone.
Two North Viet-
namese artillery regiments are already in the DMZ area.
South Vietnam: A marked increase in enemy activ-
ity in northern III Corps has been evident for several
days, possibly as a result of the repositioning and reor-
ganization of Communist units in the area.
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On 27 October the 88th North Vietnamese Army
Regiment--a former subordinate of the B-3 Front in the
Western Highlands�mounted a multibattalion attack
against a South Vietnamese Army outpost near Phuoc
Vinh. This was followed up by an assault on 29 and 30 Oc-
tober against two government outposts in the Loc Ninh
area of northern Binh Long Province. Two battalions of
the 273rd Regiment of the Viet Cong 9th Division were
involved, these units only
recently completed a reorganization in preparation for
new activity.
Despite the high Communist losses in these attacks,
the Communists may believe that they were worthwhile
since they forced the commitment of a major portion of
allied mobile reserve forces to the area, thus limiting
the allies' ability to reinforce other installations in III
Corps. (Map)
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USSR: The link-up and separation of two un-
manned Soviet spacecraft is probably a forerunner to
a manned event.
The Russians announced that an on- oar
system transmitted pictures of the joined vehicles
The use of this highly sophisticated technique of
automated rendezvous and docking marks a significant
advance in Soviet space technology. It enabled the So-
viets to perform a critical test in their manned program
without risking the life of a cosmonaut.
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NOTES
Communist China - Indonesia: Communist China's
decision to allow Indonesia to remove its diplomatic per-
sonnel from Peking reflects a desire to close out an in-
creasingly unfavorable situation.
Once
diplomatic personnel have departed, both China and In-
donesia will regard relations as "suspended" but not
broken.
Czechoslovakia-Iraq: Czechoslovakia has recently
sold at least twenty L-29 jet trainers to Iraq
USSR: The Soviets conducted their second ex-
tended-range test of a solid propellant ICBM to the mid-
Pacific on 29 October. Like the first extended-range
launch of the missile on 23 October, the shot flew 4,700
miles from Plesetsk. The firing completed the current
test series, and the Soviets reopened the impact area to
navigation on 30 October. The three Soviet range-instru-
mentation ships monitoring the tests probably will now
move to stations from which they can support a space
shot.
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Dates are Washington local time
Novaya Zemlya
UNDERGROUND
NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS
DETECTED IN THE USSR
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YIELD RANGES: Low -- less than 20 kilotons
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consisting of 2 low-yield explosions
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USSR: An underground nuclear test in the low-in-
termediate range was conducted at Semipalatinsk on
30 October. This is the fourteenth Soviet test detected
this year. Forty-nine underground tests have been
detected in the USSR since the signing of the limited
test ban treaty in 1963.
Peru: Labor unrest in southern Peru has eased with
the acceptance by striking workers of the government's
offer of a sliding scale of wage increases up to 23 percent
to compensate for the rise in prices since devaluation.
The settlement was expedited by firm police control and
by recognition that a prolonged strike could provoke
military intervention. Further labor unrest is likely,
however, when present contracts expire--many of them
on 1 December--and the unions press for future wage
adjustments.
*Congo (Kinshasa): The prolonged Congolese army
offensive against the mercenaries in Bukavu has probably
killed any last remaining hopes for a peaceful evacuation
of the mercenaries under International Red Cross aus-
pices. A Red Cross demand that Mobutu call an immed-
iate cease-fire will doubtless fall on officials who are
both unable and unwilling to do anything about it. In any
case, mercenary leader Schramme now has a perfect
excuse to back out of the September evacuation agree-
ment�which called for a cease-fire during negotiations--
if he so desires.
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