CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 9
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 22, 2003
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: June 4, 1969
• Content Type: REPORT

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DIRECTORATE OF
INTELLIGENCE
Central Intelligence Bulletin
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4 June 1969
Central Intelligence Bulletin
CONTENTS
France: The Communist decision to abstain in the
presidential runoff vote was an attempt to resolve
conflicting pressures on the party. (Page 2)
Chile: Negotiations with a large US copper company
promise to be difficult. (Page 5)
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France: The Communist Party's decision to ab-
stain on the r noff balloting for the presidency
probably was an attempt to resolve conflicting in-
ternal and external pressures with least damage to
the part
The decision probably was taken not to advance
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or hiM[br the candidacy of either Pompidou or Poher.
The effect of the boycott, however, is to enhance
Pompidou's chances for victory. Poher would need
nearly all the votes that went to the Communis
candidate as well as to other leftist candidates.
Party leaders themselves may be uncertain at
this point whether a Poher presidency would be more
advantageous to the Communists than a Pompidou pres-
idency. While Poher's election probably would mean
an eventual dissolution of the parliament and a con-
sequent chance for the Communists to increase their
representation, his victory might also consolidate
center-left cooperation with the Communists frozen
out. If Pompidou is elected and proves a strong
president, the Communists might be able to exert
less influence in the short run but in the long
run might again be able to make common cause with
the non-Communist left.
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Chile: Negotiations between the government
and a large US copper company promise to be diffi-
cult.
The Chilean Government, pushed by rising na-
tionalistic sentiment, wants to acquire at least a
51-percent interest in the operations of the Ana-
conda company in an arrangement similar to the one
it now has with Kennecott copper company. Anaconda
mines about 50 percent of Chile's copper output.
Most f the company's world-wide operations are in
Chile.
President Frei is pressing for the 51-percent
deal because he believes that anything less would
provoke nationalization legislation. Although he
has emphasized that any nationalization of the cop-
per companies would be accompanied by offers of
compensation, it will be very difficult to work out
a settlement agreeable to both the government and
the company. Chile is thinking in. terms of compen-
sating for book value, which would be $300 to $400
million. Anaconda, on the other hand, values its
properties in Chile at $900 million. Frei would be
unlikely to veto nationalization legislation unless
he was sure that hed a politically acceptable
alternative to offer.
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