PORTUGUESE GUINEA: INSURGENTSTO FORM GOVERNMENT

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• Case Number: F-2018-01470
• Publication Date: January 11, 1973

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11 January 1973
Central Intelligence Bulletin
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PORTUGUESE GUINEA: Insurgents to form government.
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PORTUGUESE GUINEA: Leaders of the insurgent
movement have announced completion of popular elec-
tions in those areas of Portuguese Guinea that they
claim to control.
According to a communique released from rebel
headquarters in the neighboring Republic of Guinea
on 7 January, a national assembly has been elected
by some 82,000 Portuguese Guineans and will meet
inside that territory "sometime in 1973." The as-
sembly's first task will be to promulgate a consti-
tution and establish executive organs to govern
"liberated" areas. Amilcar Cabral, leader of the
insurgent movement that has been trying since 1963
to forcibly wrest control of the country from Portu-
gal, rejects the notion of a provisional government
in exile. He claims that the situation 's more
comparable to that of cin independent state with
some parts of its territory occupied by foreign
forces.
Cabral asserted repeatedly during 1972 that
the struggle in Portuguese Guinea has entered a
new phase both politically and militarily. His
statements pointed toward the early formation of
a governme-it, as well as toward increased rebel
military pressure on yortuguese bases in the major
urban areas. Neither has occurred so far, although
the elections move Cabral closer to his immediate
political goal and the rebels do have the capabil-
ity to rocket major population centers, including
the capital.
Formation of a rebel government on Portuguese
Guinean territory would have a favorable psycho-
logical impact on rebel supporters and strengthen
the movement's claim that it alone represents the
Guinean people. It would have little effect on
the stalemated military situation, however, and it
would not force Lisbon to negotiate directly with
insurgent leaders.
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