CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 1, 2003
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• Publication Date: October 2, 1970
• Content Type: REPORT

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DIRECTORATE OF
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Central Intelligence Bulletin
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2 October 1970
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No. 0236/70
2 October 1970
Central Intelligence Bulletin
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JORDAN: Army and fedayeen elements are said to be
disengaging in the north. (Page 1)
SOUTH VIETNAM: The new commander in the delta region
hopes to clear out the enemy there. (Page 5)
COMMUNIST CHINA; The leadership turnout at National
Day celebrations offered further evidence of a break
in ranks. (Page 7)
CAMBODIA: Communist pressure along Route 5 has in-
tensified.. (Page 9)
LAOS: Government forces are having only limited suc-
cess in improving their position. (Page 11)
SOUTH KOREA: The opposition p-arty has chosen its
presidential candidate. (Page 12)
CHILE: Allende's refusal to meet PDC demands has
increased strains within the party. (Page 13)
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YUGOSLAVIA-CHINA: Increasing trade (Page 15)
ECUADOR: Purchase of French tanks (Page 17)
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JORDAN: Army and fedayeen elements were said
to be disengaging in north Jordan in the wake of a
new truce agreement reached there yesterday.
Arab cease-fire observers led by a Sudanese
colonel opened talks in Ramtha with Jordanian and
guerrilla officers following Wednesday's heavy
fighting in the north. The .resulting agreement
provides that armored units of both sides will pull
out of the Ramtha-Trbid-Jarash triangle under the
supervision of Jordanian police and the fedayeen
command. Fedayeen must not carry their weapons in
the streets pending their withdrawal to their bases,
which is to be arranged by the three-man follow-up
committee scheduled to arrive in the north today.
Jordanian tanks must pull back two and one-half
miles from either side of the main road from Syria
to permit the movement of fedayeen supplies., but
all other military movements are to be frozen for
48 hours. .During the same period, all armed com-
mandos who wish to go to Syria will be allowed to
do so; unarmed commandos will be allowed to go to
towns in the south. Jordanian officials and civil
and military police are to return to their posts.
Newspaper accounts indicate that the agreement
was being put into effect, at least in the Ramtha
area. Jordanian security officials were said to
have reoccupied the border post, tanks were ap-
parently pulling back from the road, and commandos
were reported to be handing in their guns and de-
fusing their mines. The number of carloads of
armed fedayeen in the streets fell off rapidly.
These reports of fedayeen compliance are surprising;
the fedayeen had seemed strongly entrenched in the
north, and radicals among them had appeared deter-
mined to fight on. There are no reports, however,
of the .agreement being observed in Irbid, the major
fedayeen stronghold.
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In Amman, meanwhile, armed fedayeen were ob-
sex?ved manning at 1et~st: one checkpoint, although
they. may have been working with the army. Jordanian
authorities .have report:ed that "nearly 200" commandos
moved out Wednesday--?.little more than a drop in the
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While the future of the fedayeen movement in
or an is anything but clear, the commandos, at least,
do not seem to consider themselves defeated. Many
are said to regard their performance against the Jor-
danian Army as a victor and their morale a arently
remains hi h.
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GVN MR-4
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SOUTH VIETNAM: ~he aggressive new commander
in South Vietnam's delta region hopes to take ad-
vantage of the enemy's weakened condition there
to clear out the last major enemy base are as _(
Major General Truong, who formerly led the
respected South Vietnamese lst Division in Mili-
tary Region (MR)-l, plans to try the same tactics
he used in the northern provinces, hitting the
enemy's main strength whenever possible. He sees
the situation in the delta as less serious than
in MR-1, and believes aggressive pursuit of weak-
ened Communist major units and local forces in the
delta over the next two years can destroy most of
the enemy's remaining strength.
eneral Truong gives first priority to pene-
trating Communist base areas, including the Seven
Mountains and U Minh Forest strongholds. He plans
to construct fire support bases there, and eventu-
ally clear these areas of enemy forces. While
.acknowledging that such tactics will be difficult
and costly in lives, he believes it is essential
to deprive the enemy of their strongholds.
~eneral Truong gives second priority to root-
ing out as many members as possible of the enemy's
network of local cadre throughout MR-4. He admits
that there are many old Viet Minh families who
give the Communists a basic strength in the coun-
tryside there, but he points out that this situa-
tion is no longer as serious in MR-4 as it still
is in MR-1. Truong also intends to take a more
direct hand than his predecessors in MR-4 in run-
ning the Regional Forces and Popular Forces in
order to improve protection of transportation
arteries and of towns and villages.
t is almost a tradition in South Vietnam for
new military region commanders to introduce broad
new programs and reforms, but what progress is
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CHILE: ~$alvador Allende's refusal to meet the
Christian Democratic Party (PDC) demands for "demo-
cratic guarantees" has increased strains within the
p ar ty,,.~
~'he PDC council announced on 30 September that
Allende's response to its demands was unsatisfactory
and that the guarantees now-must be incorporated
into the constitution by legislative action. This
position probably is not acceptable to the left wing
of the party, and its publication increases the
likelihood of a divisive struggle at the PDC Na-
tional Congress this weekend.
Other developments have strengthened Allende's
posi ion. The Roman Catholic bishops of Chile have
issued a formal statement that in effect counsels
"Christian acquiescence" in his victory in the pop-
ular election. The Marxist-controlled media have
praised the statement effusively, and on 29 Septem-
ber presented a television program designed to dem-
onstrate the "compatibility of Christianity and
Marxism."
~In the economic field, French and British in-
terests have signaled--probably with-their govern-
ments' approval--their intention to conduct business
under Allende by firming up pending financial plans
before the congressional runoff. Two French auto-
motive firms will proceed with a $2.2-million minor-
ity investment in a new assembly plant, and British
banking interests will go ahead with a $10-million
long-term loan to finance imports by the Chilean
Government develo ment cor oration.
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YUGOSLAVIA-CHINA: Yugoslavia has established
a specia section in its Federal Economic Chamber
to handle trade with Communist China, which this
year is expected to be more than double last year's
low level of $2 million. China recently contracted
for six marine diesel engines that could be worth
over $1 million. And for the first time in ten
years Chinese traders visited the Zagreb trade fair
where they discussed a purchase of freighters and
tankers ranging in size from 15,000 to 70,000 tons.
The expansion of regular freighter service, first
established this spring, will further facilitate
trade betty e -the tw u t
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French AMXv-13 l.,ght Tank
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ECUADOR: The government has authorized $15
million for the purchase of approximately 50 French
AMX-13 light tanks, according to the US defense
attache. Military leaders, arguing that Ecuador's
newly discovered oil fields must be protected from
encroachment by Colombia or Peru, apparently have
overcome objections from civilian officials that
the national budget could not support such expend-
itures because of an acute fiscal crisis. These
officials successfully thwarted purchases of sim-
ilar tanks late last ear and of 'et bombers this
August.
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