CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 6, 2003
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• Publication Date: November 19, 1970
• Content Type: REPORT

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DIRECTORATE OF
INTELLIGENCE
Central Intelligence Bulletin
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No. 0277/70
19 November 1970
Central Intelligence Bulletin
CONTENTS
CHILE: Communists and Socialists continue to re-
ceive most influential posts in the government.
(Pane 4)
ITALY: Center and conservative leaders are citing
events to show an improvement in the Communists'
position. (Page 8)
SYRIA: Asad appointments (Page 10)
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CHILE: Communists and Socialists continue to
receive most of the influential posts in the Allende
government.
The directors of such crucial economic agencies
as the presidential planning office, the price con-
trol agency, the national railways, and the state
bank are economists and technicians who have had
ties with or have been advisers to Fidel Castro.
In agencies like the vital national development
corporation, where non-Marxists were given the top
jobs, lesser but nevertheless critical posts have
gone to men committed to a Cuban- or Soviet-style
state. The government's already pervasive role in
the country's economy gives these officials power
far beyond that indicated by their job titles.
The resumption of relations with Cuba on 12
November has elicited very little criticism in
Chile, and efforts are being made to expand them.
The head of the conservative farmer owners' organ-
ization will travel to Cuba next week to explore
the possibility of tripling trade next year to $30
million. In addition, the state-owned airline,
LAN-Chile, is studying the possibility of adding
Havana as a stop on its Santiago to the US route,
and of a European flight to include Havana and
Prague.
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ITALY: Center and conservative political lead-
ers are citing a number of events as evidencing an
improvement in the Communists' national political
position.
The number of Communist Party (PCI) - Socialist
Party (PSI) coalitions has risen on the municipal
level this year in the wake of local elections last
June, as have the number of Christian Democratic -
PSI coalitions to the exclusion of the two smaller
center-left parties. The formation of both types
of coalitions has been strongly opposed by more
conservative elements in the government and espe-
cially by the two small parties. On the national
level the PCI has attempted to enlarge its influence
in the parliamentary process by assuming the role
of the constructive opposition in its relationships
with the non-Communists.
Socialist Vice Premier De Martino contributed
substantially to the concern of center and conserva-
tive politicians when he conceded last month that
though the present government is working, his party
should pursue its traditional objective of creating
as a future alternative, a "new left," which would
include a reformed Communist Party. The Communist
parliamentary leader in turn shortly thereafter pub-
licly emphasized that his party is seeking "a more
advanced political equilibrium." A further factor
in rising concern is the courting of the Communists
by presidential aspirants such as Senate President
Fanfani, Foreign Minister Moro, and De Martino, who
hope for Communist help to win the presidential
election in 1971.
Top PCI leaders disagree, as they have for
some time, about which political parties would be
acceptable coalition partners and about how fast
the party should push for acceptance as a government
party. Deputy secretary general Berlinguer recently
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said that the PCC rejects any idea of taking part in
center-left government or playing a subordinate role
but wants a radical change in political direction
and the construction of a left-oriented alternative
to the present government. However, not all PCI
leaders agree with him.
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SYRIA: Defense Minister Asad, after moving
cautiously for several days, has named himself
temporary secretary general of the Syrian Baath
Party regional command. He has also appointed a
political unknown, Ahmad al-Khatib, as figurehead
chief of state, and brought into the provisional
party leadership a dozen other of his supporters.
According to press reports, many of the ousted
leaders will be exiled to other Middle Eastern
countries. Apparently there has been no significant
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