PORTUGAL - - - GENERAL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00022R000200030043-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 12, 2000
• Sequence Number: 43
• Content Type: REPORT

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probably beaauee
abo + is praet .o lly the only difference between Franooo
should be event to mn)vn*1 paa .oularl
par says the
thor matter that i9 not ze de
nternati onal ly. it ought to be
as the in. any relations with artug
't overlooking the op
the interesting strategy at substituting the as prate
the . This would seem a ly Vital in this paper
daring that it would invol't r0 and it would sea to be s th1ng
as. For axa le in spite of its
n? 'fit would It cost the Wig and what Would be than
important enough to do no. Ne rthelsilej,
ar as it mi
eases, woe11d the be entirely happy tj
so
ded to this point of
eoonomlo 0
ld be done by the U or
t strategically t
tine
n should *enter
ueaa territory
nviderations oven n
deserve a c-
a Branch mi
od for o
ar uguese
r denial to the
nts ought to be reconsidered, The last
doesn't even belong in this emotion,
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goneral# the report is rather loosely written?
Ssire are sixteen lino* on the Portuguese
This sees rather skimpy
r :teed at 800#00? square
in question are not eep+evii#,e4 Bow, to
of the Lisbon goYerxmont in 969" ooxre
4 ik
hold o
deal
?a*tion
nut ,u
Sousaion
empire, in ganara;
on Poalea
d a great
oven i t it had to become a separa
Wen Timor might become strategically important some dee:,y
A happen to the oolonies it Portugal were overrun hY the
R xn1s roes
like Turkey and t rgen ina
respectively decided that their election
and that there might even be some sa;
look a lit:t
it the dictator's party had an Opposition4 both of them# parr.
tiou" rly Ataturk, created an opposition and told it to '3
tty c e
Sa azar, h
riouely
Person, found the opposition a bit too
sitio
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and intentio
ontion,
ugh the leaders are in d
c1 ale
W
Litaryy opposition, in
d in ton inoonc luij t lines 1d sewn to doservo
tx hr inaaUnoe, they were, capable of an attempted
years ago,, and if t erl
ttuationj thi
would "an that the regime
was not absolutely secure in teoe of the feat thant
military support,.
(for
0 to gee
ad*
on & Situation Rep
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the only reference to
would have tho h
at'ered. In the pas
and it has never said
Portuguese affa,
Seems in genera, as it
#?e
on
opposition straightened out
firsto and ea i as.
wirbaae1 and It tat
else we c
policy are probably touched on here* but the field at
should
.I
sign
e*am to be ooveroda, There are too a*ny vague aeralisatioans such
as the parochial mentality of aoa Portuguese ej the Portuguese reeling
or o
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SKREI
be r in whi
law up psther1 and the rent, Chapter
determi
bases of Portuguese fore
alasa7r
tit he is willing to do to get it,, based on Portuguese
traditions and present needs, and proceed
countries or conplexee in
era to apply, the
V and a Those# as said above, ought to be reconsidered
which is supposed to have a part in these motion
sulted if the authors liked, t morally speakini# it seems to
hears helped in other branches to work out these tepedially, important
:cns in consulteticn with a group of those interested in the
,# outtide ORE as well as in
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