CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 20, 2003
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: November 9, 1966
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
CONTENTS
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France: Layoffs at Machines Bull could injure US
business interests. (Page 5)
4. Guinea: Strong punitive measures invoked against`
US interests. (Page 6)
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France: [projected large-- scale dismissals by a
US- controlled French firm could have serious conse-
quences for American business in France.]
,The computer firm Machines Bull, control of
which General Electric acquired two years ago, is
suffering heavy losses. The company is considering
laying off up to 1,200 of its employees beginning next
month. The French Government is expected to be par-
ticularly sensitive to such a move because it had
originally opposed the American take-over and ac-
quiesced only after it became clear that there was no
other way to save the company .3
aris continues to have a vital interest in assur-
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ing national sufficiency in computer production. It
would see the layoffs as an attempt by GE to place its
own interests before those of France. The French
have suspected that GE's prime interest in buying into
Bull was to acquire a ready-made international distri-
bution network. Paris might respond to layoffs by im-
posing broad restrictive measures on foreign invest-
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In 1964-65, following the take-over of the Simca
firm by Chrysler and the closing of a large French
subsidiary of Remington-Rand, Paris hardened its re-
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instances required cabinet-level approval. The policy
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this month.
popular militia played a prominent role in last week's
anti-American activities and several observers have
noted increased Communist Chinese activity in Guinea
larity. He may now be trying to shore up his political
position at a time when the balance of power within the
regime is shifting. In doing so, he appears to have
yielded to party pressures for a return to a "revolu-
tionary" line and to his own proclivity to believe re-
ports of "imperialist" plotting.
The specific targets selected for retaliation sug-
gest that elements influencing Toure's decision include
upcountry party nAlitants, youth and labor leaders, and
certain political figures, including Foreign Minister
Beavogui who has issued several inflammatory accounts
of his detention, In addition, Guinea's recently formed
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*Guinea: President Toure has invoked strong puni-
tive measures against US interests in Guinea.
In retaliation for alleged US responsibility for the
recent detention of Guinea's OAU delegation by Ghana,
the Conakry regime yesterday ordered the expulsion
of all Peace Corps Volunteers by 15 November and re-
quested the recall of US Embassy officials responsible
for firing four local employees on 7 November. The
government also called for suspension of USIS activi-
ties, termination of Pan American Airways landing
rights in Conakry, and removal of unspecified "pro-
vocative" technicians and employees of commercial
firms. These measures stop short of a full break with
the US, however, and several high Guinean officials
have given assurances that no Americans would be
harmed and that an orderly evacuation would be facili-
tated.
At a rally on 8 November, Toure delivered a
diatribe reminiscent of his 1958 speeches when he broke
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