CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Publication Date: January 6, 1967
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Central Intelligence Bulletin
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C 1.58
6 January 1967
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*Vietnam: (Information as of 4:30 AM EST)
The Military Situation in South Vietnam: The recent
relative lull in major military activity continues, with no
reports of any significant action during the past 24 hours.
North Vietnamese Political Developments: North
Vietnam on 4 and 5 January publicly reiterated its hard
stance on negotiations and rejected the most recent West-
ern peace proposals.
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Mai Van Bo, chief of the DRV delegation in Paris,
at a press luncheon on 5 January, repeated Hanoi's
standard demands, insisting that the US must accept
the DRV's four points and recognize the Liberation
Front before any settlement can be achieved. He also
insisted that "to demonstrate its good will," the US
must "finally and unconditionally" end the bombing of
North Vietnam. Bo added that "if, after the final and
unconditional halting of this bombing" the US proposed
to contact Hanoi, he thought such a proposal "would
be examined and studied," but he offered no hint of
what the final DRV conclusion would be.
In response to questions, Bo characterized Ambas-
sador Goldberg's recent initiative as "the same old
song" and he stated in regard to U Thant's recent efforts
that the DRV "rejects any intervention by the UN into
Vietnamese affairs."
Bo also termed British Foreign Secretary Brown's
initiative "a British version of the American position."
A Hanoi Foreign Ministry statement broadcast on 4 Jan-
uary also denounced the British proposal as a cover-up
to quiet domestic oppqsition to official British support
of the US in Vietnam,
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Communist China: The publicizing of a personal
attack by Mao on Liu Shao- chi suggests that the long
struggle within the Chinese leadership is entering a
new critical phase.
According to press accounts of posters and Red
Guard newspapers seen in Peking on 4 and 5 January,
Mao in October personally denounced Liu, his former
deputy, and Teng Hsiao-ping, still officially the secre-
tary general of the party. Mao is said to have com-
plained that they forced him to retire as chief of state
in 1958 and have since treated him like a "deceased
parent"--a patently trumped-up charge.
Hitherto Mao had seemed to be above the fray,
providing general guidance, but he has not personally
been associated with attacks on individual leaders.
With Mao's prestige publicly on the line, the forces
attacking Liu and Teng are under increased pressure
to destroy these already disgraced party leaders with-
out delay. A mass rally reportedly scheduled for 10
January could be the occasion for this action.
Tao Chu, currently head of the propaganda depart-
ment in the party and since August number-four man
in the hierarchy, has now come under attack by
Madame Mao and Chen Po-ta--the chairman of the
cultural revolution committee. A Red Guard news-
paper distributed on 5 January reported that the two
had denounced Tao as a "bourgeois reactionary" who
was a follower of Liu and Teng.
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Although Tao Chu has occasionally come under
attack by Red Guards, he has seemed until recently
to be in a strong position and has been playing an ac-
tive and authoritative role in the cultural revolution.
If this latest report is correct, he would be the first
major figure in the group aligned in August with Mao
and Lin to come under serious attack. Poster attacks
on Liu and Teng now allude to an important October
party meeting where unspecified leaders allegedly
pushed the "erroneous Liu-Teng line" in defiance of
Mao. Tao Chu may have been one of these, and doubt-
less there are others who may soon ets of
attack.
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Guyana: [Relations between Prime Minister
Burnham and his junior coalition partner, Finance
Minister D'Aguiar, are again seriously strained;'
[The two leaders have had a series of major policy
disagreements and personal clashes since they formed
a coalition government in December 1964 to keep pro-
Communist opposition leader Cheddi Jagan from power.
They are now divided over cabinet changes
[If D'Aguiar were to resign Burnham could prob-
ably at least temporarily hold the support of enough
members of the finance minister's party to maintain
a slim legislative majority. Many members of
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administration, however, and without D'Aguiar in
the government the coalition would be on a much
weaker footing.
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NOTES
Turkey-Cyprus: Turkey continues to be greatly
concerned over the Czech arms shipment to Cyprus
last November. In a new series of aide memoire,
Ankara is demanding that the Czech arms be placed
under UN custody, rather than merely be inspected
by the UN, and then be withdrawn from Cyprus. The
Turkish foreign minister told Ambassador Hart on
3 January that, as a last resort, Turkey would have
no alternative but to provide the Turkish Cypriots
with 'equivalent armament." Makarios gives every
indication of intending to distribute the arms to his
police force sometime after Februar as originally
planned.
Congo (Kinshasa): President Mobutu has become
somewhat less intransigent regarding his take-over of
the properties of Union Miniere. In conversations with
US officials yesterday, he expressed willingness to
work for an agreement and to abandon the 15 January
deadline for compensation for copper in the marketing
pipeline. The conditions he imposed, however--in-
cluding arbitration of both sides' claims for compen-
sation--will be difficult for the company to accept.]
*Nigeria: The Supreme Military Council, with
Eastern governor Ojukwu participating for the first
time since July, concluded two days of apparently ami-
cable talks in Ghana yesterday. The final communique
looked to future meetings in Nigeria and stated that
agreement had been reached on reorganization of the
army and resumption "as soon as practicable" of the
adjourned constitutional conference. Although there
are no indications that conflicting basic positions on
Nigerian unity have been reconciled, the fact the meet-
ing was finall held should at least lower tensions for
the present.
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