CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Publication Date: July 29, 1963
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
CONTENTS
1. Syria: Hard-line Baathist control of government
appears solidified. (Page 1)
2. Soviet Bloc: CEMA and Moscow apparently aban-
don goal of supranational planning. (Page 2)
3. Cuba: Castro's 26 July speech unusually aggres-
sive regarding Latin American revolution.
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4. France-Algeria: French reportedly planning fur-
ther underground nuclear tests. (Page 4)
5. Notes: Guinea-
USSR; Bolivia; Brazil. (Page
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Syria's Governme
Syria: /%Major General Hafiz' elevation to chair-
man of Syrfa''s Revolutionary Command Council on 27
July appears to salify hard-line Baathist control of
Baathist membershi
Hafiz, who is believed to have been responsible
for t e regime's recent bloody suppression of pro-
Nasir and other anti-Baathist elements, now holds
most of the key government positions. Besides hold-
ing the chairmanship of the Command Council, he is
army commander in chief, minister of defense and
interior, and deputy to civilian Premier Salah Bitar.
firmer chairman and army chief Atasi's concil-
iatory policy toward the regime's enemies, including
Nasir, probably led to his removal. Hafiz' emergence
as strong man also puts in doubt the future of Bitar,
who has reportedly been losing support among the
be.growing slimmer
gypt's attitude toward the change is?probably
foreshadowed by the Cairo-controlled Middle East
News Agency, which calls Hafiz Syria's "absolute
ruler." The agency claims the change means that
the Baathists intend to continue the "killings and ar-
rests of the Syrian people." Cairo-directed subversive
efforts against the Baathists may continue, but chances
for upsetting the re?,gme in the near future appear to
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Soviet Bloc- CEMA and Moscow apparently
have temporarily abandoned their goal of supra-
national planning in favor of continued "coordination"
of national economic plans.
The 28 July communique' resulting from the
three-day meeting of the party first secretarieG of
iCEMA member countries suggests that economic
cooperation will continue to be strengthened, but not
at the price of abandoning national positions. For
example, planning for such projects as the CEMA
international bank and multilateral clearing of trade
accounts is said to be proceeding.
This change in emphasis was apparently designed
to meet Rumania's objections to supranational plan-
ning. Rumors circulating in Moscow suggest, more-
over, that Rumania will be allowed to continue its
plans for development of heavy industry in general
and its steel industry in particular.
Reflecting Soviet concern with agricultural
problems within the bloc, each member country is
to continue its efforts to raise local agricultural
production and more cooperation is called for to
provide "material and technical support" to agricul-
ture. Two of the three Soviet efforts in intrabloc
cooperation the communiqu4 specifically cited deal
with the development of resources for expanded
fertilizer production.
During the CEMA talks a one-day meeting of
the Warsaw Pact signatories- -also attended by the
first secretaries- -was held. Aside from endorsing
the partial nuclear test-ban treaty, the unusually
brief and noncommittal Pact communique' referred
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to the state of the Pact armed forces,
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Cuba: In his 26 July speech, Fidel Castro was
more aggressive on the theme of Latin American
revolution than he has been in any other public state-
ment since well before his trip to the Soviet Union
last spring.
He made it clear that he regards Cuba as the
main source of inspiration and guidance for what he
calls the inevitable revolution in Latin America.
He denied again that Cuba provides money or arms
to Latin American revolutionaries, but declared that
"we are experts on ideas" and share them with rev-
olutionaries from all over the world. In the presence
of between 200 and 300 visitors from elsewhere in
Latin America--many of whom are likely to remain
in Cuba for training- -he declared that what has hap-
pened in Cuba can happen "exactly the same in many
Latin American countries."
Castro asserted that in many countries of the
hemisphere conditions are more propitious for rev-
olutionary action than they were in Cuba ten years
ago when he began his struggle. He declared that
"fighting revolutionaries" must take full advantage
of these conditions and "open the breach."
He admitted that some countries--Brazil, Bolivia;,
Mexico, Chile, and Uruguay--have "greater stabil-
ity" than others, partly, he said, because they have
not become "blind tools of imperialist aggression"
against Cuba. He named most of the other countries,
however, as being ripe for revolution and sent greet-
ings of "solidarity and fraternity" specifically to the
"heroic fighters" of Venezuela and Guatemala.
Castro stated that "we know by experience and
conviction that all people who do what the Cuban
people have done will have the decided support of the
Soviet Union."
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France-Algerian
France is planning to onduct a series of un er-
ground nuclear tests in the Algerian Sahara this fall
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Premier n Bella that mill take place "as of
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(/Last spring Ben Bella reacted to similar tests
in a oderate fashion and did not denounce French
use of the Sahara bases when the 1962 Evian accords
were being renegotiated. Tests during the next few
months, which would provoke an outcry from Soviet
bloc and Afro-Asian states, would be poorly timed
for him, however. During this period his regime
faces several serious political hurdles, and testing
would ive his opponents a valuable propaganda
issue
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NOTES
Guinea-USSR: Moscow is continuing to press
Conakry for landing rights for its regular Moscow-
Havana TU-114 flight, The Guineans refused last
week's scheduled flight on the excuse that they were
not permitted to refuel it with their US-supplied
kerosene. The Soviets now reportedly plan to supply
their own kerosene, however, which would make it
politically difficult for the Guineans to fulfill their
assurances to the US that the flights will be pre-
vented.
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union temporarily suspended its tactics of calling
sporadic sympathy strifes protesting government
mining reform proposals, and called a union con-
gress for today. The widely reported miners' plan
for a 27 July march on the capital failed to material-
ize. Extensive government security precautions
may have caused them either to delay their march,
Brazil: Extreme leftist Foreign Minister Evandro
Liins will be nominated for the Supreme Court today
or tomorrow, according, to Foreign Ministry officials.
The 11-man court, which acts as a check on executive
action in Brazil, already includes three justices with
leftist leanings. It is not vet known who would re-
place Lins,
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THE PRESIDENT
The Vice President
Executive Offices of the White House
Special Counsel to the President
The Special Assistant for National Security Affairs
The Scientific Adviser to the President
The Director of the Budget
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
Commander in Chief, Atlantic
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
The National Indications Center
The Director
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