CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00975A009300150001-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 9
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 17, 2002
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: October 22, 1966
• Content Type: REPORT

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TOP SECRET 27 October 1966
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CENTRAL
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BULLETIN
CURRENT INTELLIGENCE
RELATING TO NATIONAL SECURITY
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
CONTENTS
2. Laos: General Ma's mutiny has collapsed.
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4. NATO- France: Status of :French forces in Germany
probably will be negotiated on Paris' terms. (Page 5)
5. Note: USSR. (Page 6)
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Laos: General Ma's mutiny has collapsed.
Ma fled his Savannakhet headquarters for Thai-
land yesterday and is now in the custody of Thai mili-
tary authorities at Udorn. He was accompanied by over
half of the 20-plane Lao Air Force contingent based at
Savannakhet. Thai authorities have been instructed
by Bangkok to impound the planes.
The failure of key regional commanders to sup-
port Ma following his air strikes against military in-
stallations in Vientiane made his position untenable.
Despite their own past differences with the military
leadership in Vientiane, these commanders apparently
calculated that Ma's effort was doomed to failure.
Ma's action does not appear to be directly related
to the recent shake-up in the neutralist military leader-
ship. It does, however, appear to reflect the diffi-
culties that have arisen from an attempt by the Lao
Army General Staff during the past few months to
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NATO- France: The Fourteen appear ready to ac-
cept Paris' terms for negotiating the status of French
forces in Germany.
At a meeting on 10 October, all the Fourteen ex-
cept the US, UK, and the Netherlands supported Ger-
many's proposal that talks between SACEUR and the
French military begin at once. The British and Dutch
representatives are asking for instructions to go along
with the majority.
Under this arrangement, the same as that proposed
by the French last June and rejected then by the other
members, the Fourteen and the French would issue
separate instructions to their military representatives.
Meanwhile, the way appears clear for Alliance ap-
proval of the North Atlantic Council's move from Paris
to Brussels. At the meeting on 19 October Canada and
Denmark, the last two active opponents of the move
announced they would go along with the majority I
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*USSR: TASS announced this morning that Molniya
1/4, the communications satellite launched on 20 Oc-
the Soviet Union--three of them could provide continuous
real-time weather coverage of the USSR and adjacent
areas. Molniya 1/3, launched on 25 April, also carried
an experimental television camera system but the pic-
purposes. The satellite is carrying a television camera
system with wide and narrow-angle lenses and will ob-
serve cloud cover in the northern hemisphere. The
Molniya 1/4 orbit provides eight hours of coverage over
tober, is being used for meteorological and mapping
tures obtained from it were not suitable for weather
forecasting purposes.
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