NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00975A031200140002-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 10
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 2, 2004
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: March 16, 1979
• Content Type: REPORT

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Intelligence
National Intelligence Daily
Friday
16 March 1979
State Dept. review completed
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Kampuchea: Food Shortages. . . . . . . . . . . . 11
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China: Scientific Satellite. . . . . . . . . . . 13
Overnight Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
The Overnight Reports, printed on yellow paper as the
final section of the Daily, will often contain materials
that update the Situation Reports and Briefs and
Comments.
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KAMPUCHEA: Food Shortages
Kampuchea may be facing serious food shortages.
Recent reporting suggests the regime instaZZed by the
Vietnamese may be hard-pressed to provide enough food to
feed both Kampucheans.and the Vietnamese occupation
troops.
Various sources, including radio broadcasts, men-
tion food shortages. A Phnom Penh broadcast on 22 Feb-
ruary said the amount of available rice is "negligible,"
admonished people not to eat seed rice or to kill animals
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crops "to prevent famine." Other reporting tells of
meager, poor quality daily rations for Vietnamese occupa-
tion troops
Kampuchean rice stocks were reduced by severe flood-
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last year. The Vietnamese. invasion disrupted har-
vesting in December and January, and advancing Vietnamese
troops found little stored rice. Retreating Pol Pot
forces had removed much of it to secure bases.
The government in Phnom Penh is taking some unpopu-
lar measures to cope with the food problem. Military
units are enforcing the decision not to implement an
early pledge to allow displaced Kampucheans to return
to their home villages, and people are being told to con-
centrate on increasing food production, especially rice.
The next rice crop is not normally planted until April,
however, and in the meantime planting of short-term non-
rice crops--corn, beans, and sweet potatoes--is being
encouraged. These crops should begin to mature in June;
until then Kampuchea may be forced to seek food else-
where.
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CHINA: Scientific Satellite
China intends to launch its first scientific satel-
lite this year, according to a Chinese space official who
recently visited the US. The planned 250-kilogram satel-
lite is to be placed in a low orbit to study solar and
terrestrial radiation and the atmosphere. Two satellites
launched by China in 1970 and 1971 were probably too
rudimentary to perform significant scientific functions.
The six Chinese satellites launched since then have all
been developmental military reconnaissance vehicles.
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Greece-US
The US Embassy in Athens reported yesterday that
Prime Minister Karamanlis has approved the first call
in some five years by an aircraft carrier to Piraeus,
Athens' port. The US carrier Eisenhower is to arrive on
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Grenada
Representatives of the Caribbean Common Market states
who met in Barbados to discuss the implications of this
week's coup in Grenada issued a statement early yester-
day declaring that there should be no outside interference
in Grenadian affairs, noting new Grenadian leader Bishop's
pled e of free elections and offering help if required.
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COMMENT: The communique was an apparent compromise
between the smaller islands that are most fearful of the
precedent set by this development and Jamaica and Guyana,
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