CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
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• Publication Date: July 16, 1966
• Content Type: REPORT

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CURRENT INTELLIGENCE
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1. Vietnam: Current situation report. (Page 1)
2. Communist China: A new but fragile unity may have
been achieved among top party leaders. (Page 2)
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*Vietnam: (Information as of 4:30 AM EDT)
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The Military Situation in South Vietnam: There
have been no reports during the past 24 hours of any
significant action resulting from large-scale allied
operations in progress.
Early yesterday, some 75 Viet Cong attacked a
US Marine outpost 15 miles south of Chu Lai. US re-
inforcements were flown in by helicopter, and the
enemy withdrew after a two-hour battle. US casualties
were five killed and 15 wounded; Viet Cong losses
were 18 killed, and miscellaneous weapons and am-
munition.
North Vietnamese Political Developments: Hanoi
has restated its determination to press on with the war
in some of the bluntest language of recent months.
A Nhan Dan editorial of 14 July echoes the defiant
note sounded by Ho Chi Minh on 27 June, declaring
that "so long as the US imperialists have not accepted
all our terms, there can be only one course left to us:
to fight and fight until the acceptance of these terms. ""
The editorial acclaimed the "success'"' scored by
the Communist forces during the last six months and
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troops to South Vietnam "they will not be able to turn
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Communist China: Indications are appearing that
a new unity, possibly fragile, has been achieved among
top party leaders in Peking.
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The evidence for this is circumstantial, but ac-
cumulative. Since 1 July, Mao Tse-tung, in only his
second appearance since last November, has received
a foreign visitor;' Liu Shao-chi is again being repre-
sented in major party journals as Mao's deputy; im-
portant changes have been made in the powerful party
secretariat; and five officials who dropped from public
view before or about the time of politburo member Peng
Chen's downfall in April have again been identified in
open media.
Shake-ups in the secretariat- -the executive arm
of the party--are rare. There have been only two
others as great in the past decade. Though further dis-
closures of dismissals of persons below the top level
can still be expected, party leaders may well not have
undertaken the latest secretariat changes unless the
air had been cleared of political uncertainty.
These various signs could mean that the leader-
ship in Peking has been stabilized, at least for the time
being. If so, party leaders may now feel they can move
to consideration of domestic and foreign policy deci-
sions held in abeyance for the last few months.
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This apparent stability may well prove transitory.
Considering all that has happened, especially Mao's
seeming inability to exercise sure, sustained control,
it is doubtful that the situation will fully stabilize un-.
til Mao finally departs and a successor consolidates
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USSR-Mali: The five Soviet AN-12 Cub trans-
ports which arrived in Bamako on 12 and 13 July
carried crated MIG jet fighters,
cent deliveries of Soviet arms to Mali have been
trucked over a 1,400-mile route across the Sahara.
This shipment, possibly of the MIG-15 Fagots
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arms agreement, would represent the first time Soviet
transports have been used to deliver MIG aircraft. Re-
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tary elements in Guatemala who are still suspicious of
Guatemala: The new Mendez regime has appointed
an extreme leftist who has been in exile in Mexico as
ambassador to that country, and a Communist living in
Paris as ambassador to France. These appointments,
which were announced in the press on 13 July, are
likely to arouse the concern of rightist civilian and mili-
Mendez' political orientation.
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j NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE ESTIMATE
The United States Intelligence Board on 14 July
1966 approved the following national intelligence esti-
mate:
SNIE 84-66, "Prospects for Stability in
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