CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Page Count: 9
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 23, 2009
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: August 30, 1972
• Content Type: REPORT

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CHILE: Army commander urges cooperation with the
Allende government. (Page 5)
PANAMA: The government considers moves to gain
greater, control over the canal. (Page 7)
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CHILE: Army Commander Prats reportedly believes
that pposition leaders must work with President
Allende to solve Chile"s problems.
Allende
is deeply concerned over the political situation and
has expressed a fear that his friends are more dan-
gerous to him than his enemies. Prats believes,
however, that Allende will be able to "work things
out." He countered criticisms of Allende's eco-
nomic policies by blaming the opposition parties for
bickering among themselves instead of cooperating
to guide and influence the President. Prats, who
is the key figure in the military, may see accommo-
dation as the only method for both military and
civilians to improve conditions without violating
the constitution. His comments also il- 25X1
lustrate how persuasive Allende is in depicting him-
self as a beleaguered defender of the country's in-
terests.
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be held next March. Some opposition politicians
They claim they fear that Allenae, backed
by some of his supporters--most notably the Commu-
nist Party--may resort to special powers to crush
increasingly active forces of the extreme left and
right. They maintain that such action "would leave
Allende free" to cancel the elections and govern
as he and the Communists wish. Allende and his ad-
visers are unhappy over his coalition's electoral
prospects, but there is as yet no indication that
he will try to cancel the elections.
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I PANAMA: The Foreign Ministry is again consid-
eri..ngringing the canal issue before the United
Nations General Assembly.
Foreign Minister Tack, who has consistently
argued for a tough negotiating stance and for publi-
cizing Panama's canal position, is reportedly pre-
paring a speech for delivery to the UN in late Sep-
tember in which he plans to review his country's
efforts to reclaim the Canal Zone from the US. Tack
wants to request UN support for a unilateral nullifi-
cation of the 1903 canal, treaty and UN assistance in
restoring Panamanian sovereignty over the Zone.
General Torrijos has been con-
sidering the possibility of a surprise announcement
of his own on 11 October, the fourth anniversary of
his seizure of power, in which he will declare US
sovereign rights in the Zone null and void and
threaten to break off the negotiations on a new ca-
nal treaty.
Torrijos has made similar threats in the past
but has backed down. He has also restrained Tack
when the latter has proposed drastic action. Any
decision to go to the UN would not be made, there-
fore, without careful consideration of whether the
advantages of using this international forum would
outweigh the gains that might be made under the
"flexible" negotiating position that reportedly was
completed last month in preparation for resumption
of the bilateral. negotiations suspended last March.
Thus far Torrijos has not endorsed this new
position. Instead, he has renewed efforts to ob-
tain international diplomatic support, apparently
in the belief that he can thus force the US to make
additional concessions on a new treaty. He has
also been seeking some unilateral concession--for
example, joint police patrols in the Zone--which
could be presented to the Panamanian public as evi-
dence of American good will and proof of his ability
to deal effectively with the US. Torrijos probably
will wait to see what concessions are forthcoming
before deciding to resort to the UN.
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