CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Publication Date: June 1, 1967
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Central Intelligence Bulletin
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1 June 1967
Central Intelligence Bulletin
CONTENTS
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Vietnam: Current situation report. (Page 3)
Guatemala: Right-wing vigilantes becoming indiscrim-
inate in selection of targets. (Page 5)
USSR: Downgrading of KGB chief (Page 6)
Nigeria: Situation report (Page 6)
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*Vietnam: (Information as of 4:30 AM EDT)
The Military Situation in South Vietnam: US Ma-
rines continued to sweep the area around Con Thien
just below the DMZ on 30 May, meeting only sporadic
resistance. A strategic hill--used by the Communists
as a mortar position--was captured, and numerous
bunkers and tunnel complexes in the area were de-
stroyed. A few miles east, the US 175-mm. artillery
installations at Gio Linh were again harassed with ap-
proximately 100 mortar rounds on the 30th. Casual-
ties from the various engagements were light.
No significant fighting has been reported in other
areas of South Vietnam.
US casualties for the week ending 27 May reached
a new high of 2,929 compared to the previous week's
record high of 2,619. The number of killed was down,
however, to 313 from the preceding week's 337. (Map)
Political Developments in South Vietnam: The
presidential candidates are moving ahead with plans
for the forthcoming elections
jPremier Ky met with leaders of several splinter
groups on 29 May to draw up an organizational structure
to run his campaign. Ky told the working group, which
included representatives of Vietnamese Confederation of
Labor and the Catholic-led Greater Solidarity Force,
that he would give it considerable authority to organize
a program designed to attract other political groups.]
[Meanwhile, Chief of State Thieu has also been ac-
tive in trying to line up political support for his candi-
dacy. Thieu re-
cently met with a number of uncommitted political fig-
ures, including former deputy premier Tran Van Tuyen
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and the leader of a Hoa Hao faction, in order to
sound out their intentions.
[rhieu has expressed confidence that he com-
mands widespread support among the military. and
intends to concentrate much of his effort on winning
the backing of the leading political groups
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Guatemala: Right-wing vigilante groups organ-
ized to combat Communism in Guatemala are be-
coming increasingly indiscriminate in their selection
of targets.
A congressional deputy and member of Pres-
ident Mendez' Revolutionary Party (PR) was mur-
dered--probably by vigilantes--on 30 May. The
victim, Marco Soto Beteta, and four other PR
deputies received death threats late last month. A
PR alternate deputy was killed on 16 May, and other
party members have been murdered by vigilantes
in rural areas.
Right-wing vigilantism has succeeded in ter-
rorizing Communist elements, disrupting their
organization, and driving some into exile. Although
innocent persons have been murdered in the process,
there has been little evidence of popular reaction
against the rightists' tactics.
Soto's murder will undoubtedly cause a furor
in the national assembly and among other influential
groups. President Mendez, who apparently has
tacitly supported the organization of vigilante groups
by high-ranking military officers, will now be faced
with the task of trying to restrain them. If he is
unsuccessful and the murder of non-Communists
continues, Guatemala City could be turned into an
armed camp.
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NOTES
USSR: Moscow's announcement that ex-KGB
chief Vladimir Semichastny has been appointed a
first deputy premier in the Ukraine clearly marks
his political downgrading, and there now is a press
report that other senior KGB officials have also
been ousted. It is not clear whether KGB blunders
during the past few months are the real reason for
the shake-up or only provided an excuse. In any
case, Semichastny's demotion removes another of
politburo-member Aleksander Shelepin's close as-
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sociates from a key political position.
Nigeria: [Close military associates of federal
leader Gowon insist that military action will be
taken against the secessionist Eastern Region. Most
of the small federal navy is at sea reportedly with
orders to enforce Gowon's proclaimed blockade of
Eastern ports. There are no signs so far of any re-
sistance by Eastern minority tribesmen to Ojukwu's
breakaway regime--a development hoped for by
dents of American citizens from the East]
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ure, the US Embassy is arranging to evacuate depen-
Gowon and his associates. *As a precautionary meas-
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