CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Page Count: 10
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 20, 2003
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: October 11, 1966
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL
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CURRENT INTELLIGENCE
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
CONTENTS
1. Vietnam: Current situation report. (Page 1)
2. Congo- USSR: Mobutu probably will permit
Soviets to reopen embassy in Kinshasa. (Page 2)
3. Costa Rica: Administration and major rival
party may be heading for showdown. (Page 3)
4. Note: NATO. (Page 4)
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*Vietnam: (Information as of 4:30 AM EDT)
Military Developments in South Vietnam: Nearly
1,700 Communist troops have been killed in the series
of operations in northern Binh Dinh Province since
8 September, according to casualty reports submitted
by participating US, South Vietnamese and South Korean
units.
As a result of the continuing allied initiative, the
610th North Vietnamese/Viet Cong Division is esti-
mated by US military authorities in South Vietnam to
be dispersed and seriously disorganized. Casualties
in the 12th Regiment of the 610th Division have re-
portedly reduced that unit's combat strength by nearly
one half.
At least 600 captives have also been taken; some
of them are regulars from the North Vietnamese Army.
The heavy military action in the area has also resulted
in an extensive outflow of refugees. According to press
reports, as many as 16,000 have been moved from enemy-
controlled areas in one district alone.
Even if allowances are made for some over-cal-
culation of enemy casualty totals and the refugee flow,
it appears certain that Communist control over and in-
fluence among the populace of this area has been seri-
ously impaired.
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Congo- USSR: President Mobutu probably will
soon permit the reopening of the Soviet Embassy in
Kinshasa (Leopoldville).
The govern-
ment closed the embassy almost three years ago when
two Soviet diplomats were discovered to be aiding
exiled opponents of the Adoula government. The pro-
jected policy shift accords with Mobutu's efforts to
reduce influence of Western states, especially Bel-
gium and Portugal, to help gain standing as a true
African nationalist. Foreign Minister Bomboko, mean-
while, has been discussing an exchange at the charge
level with the Soviet UN delegation.
While we aware of past Soviet
su versive e or s- obutu and his neophyte security
service will have trouble keeping even a small Soviet
Embassy under surveillance.
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Costa Rica: The Trejos administration and the
opposition National Liberation Party (PLN) may be
heading for a major showdown.
The PLN has made effective use of its legislative
majority to weaken the position of President Trejos,
whose narrow electoral victory in February was made
possible by a coalition of disparate groups in league to
defeat the PLN. The growing influence in the adminis-
tration of the PLN's political archenemy, the Republican
Party, as well as Trejos' attempts to alter programs and
institutions created under PLN presidents, have led the
PLN to pursue an increasingly aggressive policy toward
the government.
Trejos is countering PLN harassment by firing
some PLN incumbents in government offices and by re-
sorting to other forms of retribution.
Ambassador Telles reports that, although both sides
have publicly left the way open for retreat from their
present intransigence, he does not detect any real in-
clination to compromise. PLN leaders, according to
the ambassador, have s oken privately esorting
to arms. F7
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NATO: The Fourteen permanent representatives
to the North Atlantic Council failed on 7 October to
resolve the question of moving the Council from Paris
to Brussels and will consider the matter again on 20
October. Canada and Denmark still hold out against
any move and want the issue decided at the ministerial
meeting in December. Reports from Copenhagen, how-
ever, indicate some weakening of Danish resolve on
this issue. In keeping with the changing atmosphere in
Bonn reflecting a more cooperative attitude toward the
French, the Germans prefer to wait until December
before making a formal decision ng the council.
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