CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Publication Date: December 17, 1966
• Content Type: REPORT

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Central Intelligence Bulletin
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Central Intelligence Bulletin
CONTENTS
1. Vietnam: Current situation report. (Page 1)
3. Communist China - USSR: Expulsion of Soviet
correspondents a reaction to stepped-up propa-
ganda attacks by Moscow. (Page 4)
4. Indonesia: Suharto being pressed to accelerate
anti-Sukarno campaign. (Page 5)
5. Venezuela: Government pushing moves against
Communist terrorists. (Page 6)
6. Chile: Communists using strike to exploit dis-
content with government wage program. (Page 7)
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*Vietnam: (Information as of 4:30 AM EST)
The Military Situation in South Vietnam: Commu-
nist forces continue to avoid contact with large-scale
allied operations now under way but are initiating rela-
tively successful smaller scale actions.
On 15 December an estimated company, of Viet
Cong attacked a hamlet four miles northeast of Phan
Thiet, the capital of Binh Thuan Province. Armored
South Vietnamese Army elements dispatched to rein-
force the defenders engaged in a four-hour firefight,
sustaining casualties of nine killed, 36 wounded, and
one captured, Viet Cong losses included six killed and
one captured.
in Sep-
tember the Viet Cong disbanded their 86th Main Force
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Battalion and reassigned its members to various district
units in an effort to strengthen the local forces. This
is the firs report of the disbanding and down-
grading of a main force unit for such a purpose although
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reports that similar steps are being taken in other areas
north of Saigon.
This activity is undoubtedly being undertaken on a
selective basis, and does not signify a decision by the
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the North Vietnamese Its 77 Regiment a deployed
to northeastern Khanh Hoa Province in preparation for a
"dry season" off nsive.
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Communist China - USSR: China's expulsion of
three Soviet correspondents is a reaction to increas-
ingly sharp Soviet propaganda attacks.
The Chinese charged that the newsmen had been
spreading "rumors and slanders" about the cultural
revolution and declared that this could not be tolerated.
Recent Russian pronouncements have included increas-
ingly bitter personal attacks on "Mao and his clique, "
and Brezhnev reviewed the situation in the international
Communist movement at a Soviet party central commit-
tee plenum this week.
Peking may also intend the move as a warning to
foreign correspondents remaining in China that they
must be more careful in reporting Red Guard activities.
The Chinese have displayed some sensitivity to foreign
press treatment of the "cultural revolution, " but have
not imposed censorship.
In order to parry possible charges that they are
systematically cutting the remaining Sino-Soviet ties,
the Chinese have pointed out that the expulsion order
leaves three Soviet correspondents still in China--the
same number that the Chinese have in the USSR.
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Indonesia: General Suharto is under increasing
pressure to accelerate the campaign against Presi-
dent Sukarno.
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Suharto's continued reluctance to move precipi-
tately against Sukarno is dictated both by a desire to
proceed along constitutional lines and by fear that
support for Sukarno in Java is still so strong that his
ouster would trigger a civil war there.
Although Suharto appears to have sanctioned a
fresh round of press attacks and demonstrations
against Sukarno to take advantage of the revelations
of the trial of Omar Dani, he may continue to tem-
porize on taking formal action against the President.
A further complication in the situation is Sukarno's
announcement that he is going abroad to take part in
a "meeting of heads of state" sometime in the next
three months. Press reports claim he will visit
Egypt and Yugoslavia.
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Venezuela: The government is vigorously prose-
cuting its campaign against the dissident Communist
terrorists.
By Thursday afternoon, police had processed about
1,000 persons from the Central University area. Some
wanted persons have been arrested and some arms
seized, but the military are convinced that a security
leak permitted the evacuation of arms and the escape
of terrorists,
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Vethencourt and Jovito Villalba, leader of the gov-
ernment coalition party, have both said that the gov-
ernment intends to take down the high chain-link fence
around Central University. According to the US Em-
bassy, the government apparently intends to end the
privileged extraterritorial status of the university once
and for all. Colonel Vethencourt said that a police unit
headed by an inspector will be assigned permanently
to the campus.
Vethencourt added that the military operation will
not end in the near future. The military want to remain
in control until they are assured that the university will
never again be used as a sanctuary and that terrorist
havens and strongholds in Caracas have been eliminated.
Reaction so far to the government's move has been
generally favorable. Late reports indicate that Caracas
remains calm.
Central University had been used as a base of op-
erations for the terrorists. Military occupation of the
university and the freedom of action granted the army
by the suspension of constitutional guarantees will un-
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Chile: The Communist Party of Chile is using the
12-day-old strike of public health workers to exploit
general discontent with the government's wage adjust-
ment program.
The Communists hope to start a nationwide strike
against the government if the public health strike con-
tinues,
Widespread labor agitation could prevent passage of
the government's wage adjustment bill now in congress
and force the government to back down on its wage
policy, thus endangering its entire program for stabil-
ization and economic development.
Chile's chronic inflation has especially hurt pub-
lic health workers, who are at the low end of the gov-
ernment pay scale. There have been several clashes
between strikers and police, and police have arrested
about 20 strike leaders. The Federation of Medical
Doctors of Chile has called a 48-hour sympathy strike,
and other groups may follow suit,
Communist exploitation of the strike may indicate
a new militancy on the part of the Communist- Socialist
labor central (CUTCh). CUTCh has been attempting to
counter the Christian Democratic Party's effort to over-
come Communist-Socialist control of most of Chile's
organized labor. Vigorous action by this organization
would compound labor problems, as contracts come up
for renewal in 1967 in the copper and other critical in-
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USSR: Defense Minister Malinovsky is ill and in
a hospital, according to a Soviet official, and may soon
retire. Malinovsky, who is 68 and has held his post
for nine years, has failed to appear at several impor-
tant public occasions during the past three months.
Should he retire, first deputy defense minister Marshal
Grechko, who spoke for the armed forces at the party
central committee plenum this week, appears to be
the most likely successor.
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Berlin: The West Berlin Senat will not interfere
if the East Germans unilaterally offer holiday passes
to West Berliners, according to a Senat spokesman.
He indicated that the Senat would not be concerned
should the East Germans require visitors to sign a
statement personally "recognizing" the GDR, I
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Guinea: President Tourd' has again abruptly re-
versed his regime's posture by making friendly over-
tures to the US. In a meeting on 13 December with
the entire personnel of the information ministry and
some party leaders well known for their anti-US
stance, he censured them for their recent behavior
and ordered the information media to cease all at-
tacks on the US. These orders appear to have ef-
fectively halted the anti-American campaign. On
14 December, Tourd virtually apologized to the US
ambassador for the attacks, claiming he had been mis-
led by some of his advisers and "foreign powers. "
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