CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Page Count: 10
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 28, 2004
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: June 17, 1969
• Content Type: REPORT

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No. 0144/69
17 June 1969
Central Intelligence Bulletin
CONTENTS
South Vietnam: Situation report. (Page 1)
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France-Poland: Paris is again threatening to dis-
regard Western strategic trade controls. (Page 3)
Chile_F_______1Cuba: Chile's foreign minister is pro-
moting the idea of Cuban re-integration into the
inter-American system. (Page 4)
Nonaligned Meeting: Consultative session (Page 5)
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I South Vietnam: Communist forces staged several
sharp attacks against allied positions on 16 June
and fired two rocket rounds into downtown Saigon.
In the most dramatic assault, an enemy battalion
suffered a reported loss of 212 men in a five-hour
attack against a Thai base camp in Bien Hoa Province.
Bien Hoa air base was struck with five rocket rounds,
but casualties and damage were reported light. Also
on 16 June, Communist ground forces attacked a US
artillery position in the A Shau Valley, losing 52
men in a four-hour assault, while enemy gunners hit
a US Army installation south of Hue with seven 122-mm.
rockets.
On 15 June, 69 enemy mortar and artillery
rounds struck Ben Het. The headquarters of the US
25th Infantry Division in Hau Nghia Province was
also hit by rockets on 15 June. Most of the action
in the delta provinces consisted of light, scattered
shellings (Map)
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France-Poland: LParis is again threatening to
disregard Western strategic trade controls by con-
cluding a contract for the pply of strategic tran-
sistor technology to Poland.
_French informed the US ambassador last week
of an agreement to license the manufacturing tech-
nology for silicon transistors to Warsaw. This
technology may be used to produce micro-electronic
components used in third generation computers and
other sophisticated military electronic gear. The
agreement is part of a larger package deal which
reportedly involves the sale of facilities for some
$60 million worth of French silicon transistors as
well as the sup- ply of an unspecified amount of copper
mining equipment
CP~and will reimburse France with deliveries
of copper worth up to $120 million. French officials
claimed that the Poles would turn to the USSR for
this package if France refusQ to follow through on
the transistor technology sale
French officials admit that there is no doubt
that silicon transistor technology is denied to
Communist countries under recent rulings of COCOM,
the Western committee for coordinating policy on
the sale of strategic items to Communist countries.
They did not intend to raise the case in COCOM.
In the course of a recent Western review of
COCOM-denied items, Paris failed to gain wide re-
laxation of controls on the sale of computers and
computer technology to the USSR and Eastern Europe.
The French previously have ignored adverse COCOM
rulings in the sale, fccuputer technology to Ruma-
nia and Czechoslovakia.'
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Chilel Cuba: Chilean Foreign Minister
Valdes continues to promote the idea that Cuba should
be re-integrated into the inter-American system.
In conversations last week with US officials,
Valdes took the line that ending Cuba's isolation
would reduce its threat as a source of revolutionary
activity. He has often said in the past that Latin
American nations, acting as a group, should resume
trade and diplomatic relations with Cuba, but he
has usually qualified his statements by asserting
that Cuba must first stop "exporting" revolution.
President Frei recently stated that Chile would take
no unilateral action in this regard.
Valdes' attitude seems to have arou
enthusiasm elsewhere in the hemisphere.
however, Castro would treat an approach by Chile
with extreme caution and might impose conditions
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Although Castro's animosity toward President
Frei has so far proved an effective barrier in the
re-establishment of diplomatic ties, Havana would
not reject out-of-hand a move by Chile to improve
relations. Castro would view favorably any action
that would contribute to the diminution of US in-
fluence and the weakening of the OAS. Despite his
desire to break out of. Cuba's diplomatic isolation,
that would be impossible for Chile to accept.
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Nonaligned Meeting: A consultative meeting of
39 nonaligned countries is to open in Belgrade on 8
July. It will be the first gathering of the so-
called uncommitted countries since 1964, when 58 na-
tional leaders gathered. in Cairo for the second non-
aligned summit. The delegates will probably avoid
criticism of any one country and only discuss in
broad terms the contributions of the nonaligned
toward peace. Yugoslavia hopes that the forthcoming
meeting will lead to a third nonaligned summit.
Tito's enthusiasm, however, has not been shared by
many other leaders and the prospects for a summit
conference this year are dim.
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