CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Publication Date: October 1, 1969
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No. 0235/69
1 October 1969
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CONTENTS
North Vietnam: Sweden has offered Hanoi postwar
reconstruction aid. (Page 1)
USSR - Communist China: The two nations may hold
discussions on their border problems. (Page 2)
Morocco-Mauritania: King Hassan is moving toward
recognition of Mauritania. (Page 4)
Panama: The government-controlled press is focusing
on the canal issue. (Page 5)
Ghana: New government (Page 6)
Brazil: Exiled prisoners (Page 6)
Peru-USSR: Trade agreement (Page 7)
Gibraltar: UN deadline (Page 7)
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C North Vietnam: Hanoi has received its first
substantial offer of reconstruction assistance from
a free world country.
Sweden announced a $40-million aid grant for a
three-year period on 30 September. The grant is
probably a part of the proposed NORDIC Plan for aid
to both Vietnams in the postwar period, and the an-
nouncement comes while a North Vietnamese delegation
is on tour of the Scandinavian countries.
Hanoi will probably move immediately to accept
delivery of needed commodities such as fertilizers,
medicines, and consumer goods, but may delay the
start of construction projects. Some Hanoi spokes-
men have expressed a reluctance to negotiate aid
projects with free world countries while the war in
the South continues.
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USSR - Communist China: There are signs that
the USSR and China will hold discussions aimed at
alleviating their serious border problems.
A direct hint of this was reported yesterday by
the head of the Japanese labor union federation Sohyo,
who is visiting Moscow. He informed Japanese re-
porters that politburo member Shelepin told him the
Chinese attitude toward border problems during the
Kosygin-Chou meeting "seemed to be positive." Shele-
pin said he expected talks to be held. This is in
line with earlier speculation from Moscow that some
tentative agreement to talk was reached at the meet-
ing.
There have been no equivalent rumors from Peking.
A national day editorial which was released in Peking
yesterday referred to China's desire to settle border
disputes through negotiations. Although this merely
reiterates China's official position on border prob-
lems, its timing could be another indicator that
talks are in prospect.
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Morocco-Mauritania: King Hassan is moving to-
ward recognition of Mauritania, despite the long-
standing public opposition of the nationalist Istiglal
Party.
Hassan not only considers Moroccan claims to
Mauritania unrealistic; he also thinks they block
Rabat's more immediate claims to Spanish Sahara. As
soon as Morocco became independent in 1956, however,
the Istiqlal Party president laid claim to Mauritania.
He was subsequently supported by the late King Mahamed
V. At last week's Islamic Summit Hassan undercut the
Istiqlal and granted de facto recognition to Mauri-
tania by inviting Mauritanian President Ould Daddah
to be present.
A meeting of Hassan, Ould Daddah, and Algerian
Premier Boumediene at the close of the summit pro-
vided an opportunity for a further move toward reach-
ing a Moroccan-Mauritanian rapprochement and Magh-
rebian solidarity. The three leaders may also have
discussed the future status of Spanish Sahara, which
both Morocco and Mauritania claim and in which Al-
geria professes to have an "interest."
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Panama: The government-controlled press is
beginning of focus more attention on the canal issue.
Coverage of Foreign Minister Pitty's UN speech
on 27 September dealt almost exclusively with his
remarks concerning the canal. The government's de-
termination to have the "unjust" 1903 treaty abro-
gated was particularly stressed.
The US Embassy in Panama suggests that the mili-
tary government may have decided to use the canal
issue in an attempt to gain popular support. A
knowledgeable Panamanian source has said that for
political reasons the government will probably charac-
terize the 1967 draft treaty as a giveaway negotiated
by the corrupt oligarchy. It will then attempt to
rally support for its effort to renegotiate the
treaty with the US.
Earlier this month the government appointed a
three-man "advisory" team to work on matters related
to the canal. The growing preoccupation with the
treaty issue suggests that additional concessions
may be sought in a new round of talks. Further
evidence of Panama's intentions may come during the
celebration of the first anniversary of the military
coup on 11 October.
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Ghana: Accra's second experiment with parlia-
mentary democracy begins today with the formal turn-
over of power to Prime Minister Busia, whose party
overwhelmed the opposition in the parliamentary elec-
tions in August. Busia, formerly a professor, will
now have to deal with Ghana's tough economic prob-
lems in order to maintain stability. In addition,
he will have to overcome divisions within his party
and restrain its more vindictive members. Some op-
position supporters have already been dealt with;
two senior police officers were forced to resign and
two foreign businessmen have been ordered out of the
country for allegedly financing the losers.
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Brazil: Thirteen of the 15 Brazilian prisoners
who were exchanged for US Ambassador Elbrick have
decided to leave asylum in Mexico and go to Cuba.
Several of them have said that they plan to continue
their struggle against "dictatorship, imperialism,
and all forms of economic exploitation and political
repression." They probably believe Cuba will give
them some type of financial or other assistance and
help them to return to Brazil. Most of them have
links with dissident Communist Carlos Marighella,
the leader of the most effective terrorist organi-
zation in Brazil. A number of Marighella's followers
have received guerrilla training in Cuba, and his
organization may also have received arms and other
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Peru-USSR: The Velasco government and the
Soviet Union yesterday announced the ratification
of a two-year trade agreement. The agreement, signed
in Lima last February, calls for Peru to export fish-
meal and basic agricultural and mineral products to
the USSR. The Soviets in turn will provide agricul-
tural and road building machinery and technical as-
sistance. A Soviet technical mission is scheduled
to arrive in Peru later this month to arrange for
the assistance as well as to conduct a feasibility
study lar e irrigation project in northern
Peru.
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Gibraltar:,~Today is. the. deadline for the:Brit-
ish'-.to comply with the Gibraltar resolution adopted
by the UN General Assembly last December. The reso-
lution requested the UK "to terminate the colonial
situation in Gibraltar," alleging that British con-
trol is incompatible with the purposes and principles
of the UN Charter. London continues to maintain that
Gibraltarians have exercised their right to self-
determination, pointing to the September 1967 refer-
endum in which the inhabitants overwhelmingly endorsed
the British link. After today's deadline, Sp in may
be expected to condemn the TTX in the UN, but
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