POLITICAL SITUATION IN PORTUGAL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78S01932A000100070029-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 12, 2005
• Sequence Number: 29
• Publication Date: July 9, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

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ITEM NO: 4
DATE: JULY 9,' 1974
SUBJECT: POLIUUTICAL SITUATION IN PORTUGAL
THE MILITARY ALERT IN EFFECT OVER THE WEEKEND HAS
BEEN CANCELLED, AND THE CABINET SHAKEUP 189919938 PREDICTED
YESTERDAY APPEARS TO BE TAKING PLACE. INSTEAD OF THE
EXPECTED STRENGTHENING OF THE PRIME MINISTER, HOWEVER, HE
SEEMS TO BE OUT.
ACCORDING TO PRESS REPORTS QUOTING HIS OFFICE, PRIME
MINISTER PALMA CARLOS AND THREE CENTER POPULAR DEMOCRATIC
PARTY MINISTERS HAVE RESIGNED. ACCORDING TON ONE OF THE
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MINISTERS INVOLVED, THEY WILL BE REPLACED BY MILITARY
OFFICERS. THE SAME SOURCE ASCRIBED THE RESIGNATIONS TO THE
REFUSAL BY THE COUNCIL OF STATE DURING ITS MEETING LAST
NIGHT TO GRANT PALMA CARLOS GREATER FREEDOM AND POWER TO
GOVERN THE COUNTRY.
OTHERS RESIGNING ARE DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER SA
CARNEIRO AND THE MINISTERS OF INTERNAL ADMINISTRATION
AND ECONOMIC COORDINATION. SEVERAL OTHER CHANGES ARE ALSO
EXPECTED, BUT MOST OF THE SOCIALISTS AND COMMUNISTS IN
THE CABINET HAVE APPARENTLY DECIDED TO REMAIN.
THE COUNCIL OF STATE IS IN SESSION AGAIN TODAY, AND
THE GOVERNMENT'S ACCEPTANCE OF THE RESIGNATIONS IS EXPECTED.
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