CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Publication Date: March 6, 1962
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
CONTENTS
1. USSR: Khrushchev's speech at party central committee
plenum devoted to agriculture. (Page i)
2. USSR - East Germany: Substantial Soviet credit and large
trade increase with East Germany announced. (.Rage ti)
4. Angola: Chief of staff of Holden Roberto's Angolan Peo-
ple's Union defects to Communist-backed rival faction.
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7. Brazil: Expected return of Quadros causing increasing
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*USSR: At yesterday's opening session of the Soviet party
central committee plenum, Khrushchev freely admitted the
failures'of Soviet agriculture and called for a far-reaching re-
organization of the system of management and control of agri-
cultural production. According to the TASS summary of his
seven-hour speech, the address dealt only with agriculture,
with no references to foreign policy or other internal problems.
Khrushchev proposed an elaborate system of republic and
provincial committees supervised by a national committee in
Moscow to administer both collective and state farms. In these
new committees would be centralized the managerial powers
which had in large part been diffused by Khrushchev's own ear-
lier organizational reforms, particularly his abolition of the
Machine Tractor Station system in 1958. Party control would
be strengthened. Republic party bosses would. head the repub-
lic agricultural committees and be made directly responsible
for local agricultural production.
Khrushchev, as he has at recent regional agricultural con-
ferences, attacked the traditional crop-rotation systems under
which almost one-fourth of the cultivated acreage has been ei-
ther in sown grasses or in clean fallow each year. He called
for the area so occupied to be cut by half, a move which would.
raise by some 55,000,000 the number of acres planted in culti-
vated crops in 1962. This change would. increase agricultural
production in the short-run--if sufficient resources were pro-
vided to attain major increases in manpower, fertilizers, and ma-
chinery--but might well have adverse long-term effects.
The TASS summary indicates that Khrushchev spoke exten-
sively on the basic problems of inadequate incentives for the in-
dividual and of inadequate investment in agriculture. Thus far,
however, there is too little information to conclude that Moscow
is ready to make the changes necessary to tackle these problems
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*USSR - East Germany The announcement made by East
Germany yesterday that the USSR will extend it a credit of
$325,000,000 and that Soviet - East German trade will be in-
creased by approximately 12 percent in 1962 is a further dem-
onstration of Soviet support for the Ulbricht regime on the eve
of East-West negotiations. No details have yet been released
concerning the form of the credit, whether it is long- or short-
term, or whether it applies to specific commodities; hitherto
the USSR has been reluctant to provide the East Germans with
badly needed foreign currency for the purchase of commodities
from Western countries. This aid and trade will enable East
Germany to progress toward its goal of "economic invulnera-
bility" to a possible West German embargo, but do not neces-
sarily imply that the bloc is prepared to suffer the effects of a
reduction in trade this year between East and West Germany.
Yesterday's announcement resembles that of 31 A1ay 1961--
on the eve of the talks last June between President Kennedy and
Khrushchev in Vienna- -when the USSR undertook to provide a
long-term credit of approximately $475,000,000 to East Germany
for the period 1961-65. Although evidence is lacking that the
East Germans are utilizing this credit, in the period 1956-60
they drew Soviet commodity and foreign exchange credits to
amounts over $4.00,000,000.
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Angola: Marcos Cassanga, the chief of staff of Holden
Roberto ss Angolan rebels, apparently has, defected to Roberto's
rival, the Communist-backed Popular Movement for the Libera-
tion of Angola (MPLA). In a press conference held on 3 March
under MPLA auspices, Cassanga blamed Roberto for the recent
death of rebel chief of operations Joao Batista and said his
troops would have no further connection with Roberto's Angolan
People's Union (UPA).
This marks the first open break in the unity of the UPA's
top leadership and may reflect the growing split between northern
and southern elements in the UPA. Most of the. rebel rank and
file in northern Angola are from that area and are more likely to
follow Roberto, their co-tribalist, than a "foreign" southerner
such as Cassanga. However, the defection of Cassanga will ham-
per the UPA's plans to expand its military operations, may per-
mit the MPLA to become more active, and will give the Commu-
nists a greater opportunity for gaining a foothold in Angola.
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Brazil- The expected return to Brazil of former President
Janio Quadros on about 8 March is causing increasing appre-
hensionin Brazilian political circles. Quadros has been stead-
.ily regaining popularity, and political leaders throughout the
country are generally holding off on statements of political in-
tentions until they are able to observe the reception to his re-
turn. Next October s. elections for. the Chamber of Deputies
offer Quadros a chance to return to power as prime minister
.under the parliamentary system which Brazil adopted last Sep-
tember.
Quadros has not yet divulged his actual political plans. He
may, soon after his return, release a long.. awaited- manifesto,
as to why he resigned and what the "outside forces" were which
he referred to at that time as helping to bring about his resigna-
tion.
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 Defection of Angolan Rebel Leader
Cassanga?s press conference reportedly was attended by
representatives from TASS and Pravda and by the press at-
tachd from the USSR's Leopoldville embassy; there appar-
ently were few if any non-Communist correspondents in at-
tendance. Cassanga, who was born in southern Angola and
had been trained at a Portuguese noncommissioned officers'
school in Angola before he fled to the Congo in February 1961,
was until recently one of the few men available to the UPA
who had any military experience. As Roberto's chief of staff
he probably was responsible for much of what little organiza-
tion the rebels have had. Cassanga's adherence to the MPLA
will help counteract its image as a predominantly mulatto or-
ganization, as contrasted with the primarily black UPA.
Rebel leaders are beginning to return to Angola from guer-
rilla warfare courses in Algeria and Tunisia, and Roberto
probably will eventually be able to fill the gap left by Cassanga.
Cassanga's defection may, however, worsen the latent friction
between northerners and southerners in the party as a whole--a
friction which only Roberto reportedly has been able to keep
under control. Roberto, who has been abroad for several weeks,
reportedly is to return to Leo oldville with a contin ent of rebel
trainees on 7 March.
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The Return of Janio Quadros to Brazil
Janio Quadros has spent the six months since his resigna-
tion on 26 August in travel by slow freighter. He visited Eng-
land and Australia and began his journey back to Brazil last
December, stopping at Hong Kong and various African ports.
While Quadros has never publicly explained his resignation,
many observers believe it was caused by extreme .fatigue as
well as by frustration of his ambition to exert undisputed power.
Quadros is reported planning to run for the Chamber of
Deputies from Sao Paulo--his home state--in the October elec-
tions. He may also run in any or all of the other 20 states, as
multiple candidacies are permitted in Brazil. Quadros could
thus share his popularity with others running on the same ticket,
since federal deputies are elected by a proportional representa-
tion system in each state. Quadros has been reported inter-
ested in simultaneously running for governor of Sao Paulo.
Final decision on his candidacies will probably be made after
he is able to weigh his present political appeal in various sec-
tions of the country.
The publisher of Brazil's most important conservative
paper, O Estado do Sao Paulo, is reported to have stated re-
cently that Brazil is"in its last quarter-hour of existence"--
apparently referring to the possibility that extremist activity
by Quadros might provoke the Brazilian military to intervene in
political affairs.
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THE PRESIDENT
The Vice President
Executive Offices of the White House
Special Counsel to the President
Military Representative of the President
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
The Department of State
The Secretary of State
The Under Secretary of State
The Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
The Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
The Counselor and Chairman of the Policy Planning Council
The Director of Intelligence and Research
The Treasury Department
The Secretary of the Treasury
The Under 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 Secretary of Defense
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, Defense Intelligence Agency
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
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