CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1960/11/17

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• Document Creation Date: March 17, 2020
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• Publication Date: November 17, 1960

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17 NOVEMBER 1960
I. THE COMMUNIST BLOC
II. ASIA-AFRICA
USSR to provide Morocco with jet air-
craft, reportedly within six weeks or a
month.
Negotiations between Iraqi Government
and IPC at an impasse, with some nation-
alization of present oil concession a pos.- ez,
sibility.
Chinese Nationalists reorganizing their
irregulars in Bui.ma.
III. THE WEST
Guatemala�Communists now trying to
capitalize on the revolt by agitation in the
capital; government forces recapture
Puerto Barrios.
Bolivia sending mission to Europe to ex-
plore possibilities for Soviet and West
European aid.
Denmark--Governing Social Democrats to
face difficulties in reconstituting coali-
tion government following general elec-
tion, but no basic changes anticipated in
foreign or defense policies. Lc!)
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CENTVAL INTELLIGENCE BULLEYN
17 November. 1960
DAILY BRIEF
I. THE COMMUNIST BLOC
IL ASIA-AFRICA
Morocco-USSR: Moscow is reliably reported to have I
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offered Morocco MIG�-17s and an unspecified number of _
other aircraft, presumably IL-28 twin-jet light bombers,
In response to an 11 November request from Crown Princed,,,/,,,,
Moulay Hassan. The aircraft and technicians are expected _
to reach Morocco in four to six weeks by ship. Rabat's 15 ir
November communique on the provision of Soviet aircraft, ir ' 4,4,114,,4
coupled with the news blackout on the arrival of US arms
last week, Is symptomatic of its extreme sensitivity to left
ist charges that the King's government is dominated by
"colonialists." The announcement was made on the eve of
the three-day national holiday when the recently arrived
American equipment is being exhibited. Rabat probably
hopes it will serve somewhat to balance both the receipt
of American economic and military aid and the continua-
tion of US and French base rights through 1963 and to prove
that the King is following his professed policy of nonalign-
ment. (Page 1)
Iraq Oil:ELengthy negotiations between Baghdad and
the Iraq Petroleum Company (IPC) over changing conces-
sion terms have reached an impasse, and unilateral gov-
ernment action against the company is being considered.
Earlier this month, the company reluctantly agreed to meet
Prime Minister Qasim's harsh terms for surrendering much
of its concession area. Qasim, however, has sharply in-
creased his demands, and IPC now doubts that the government
is interested in any agreement. Possibly sensing some weak-
ness in the company's stand, Qasim may even go so far as to
try to secure his terms by legislation, including "nationaliz-
ing" more than 90 percent of the company's present conces-
sion area) (Page 3)
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� Nationalist China: ite government is attempt-
ing to reorganize the Chinese Nationalist irregulars
Y.n Burma into an effective military force capable of
tactical missions. An important element in the Na-
tionalist program for supplying and controlling the
irregulars has been the transfer of junior officers and
enlisted men with special-forces training from Taiwan
to the Burma border area�possibly 1,000 this year. On
2 November Chiang Ching-kuo told a group of irregular
commanders, then in Taiwan for orientation, that the
Burma area would be the first line of counterattack a-
gainst the main1an5.1.:-.1 (Page 4)
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III. THE WEST
Guatemala: Communist and pro-Communist groups,
apparently surprised by the revolt launched on 13 Novem-
ber by disaffected army officers, now are seeking to cap-
italize on the uprising by agitation in the capital. An anti-
government demonstration there on 15 November was dis-
persed by the police, but new ones are planned nightly
"until the government falls." The regime's position in the
capital has been weakened by the withdrawal of troops to 6
fight insurgents outside the capital.
*Although government forces yesterday recaptured the
Caribbean city of Puerto Barrios, a number of the rebels
who had held that city still remain at large.
(Page 5)
Bolivia: The Bolivian Government has announced
that a commercial mission will leave within 30 days for
Western Europe, Czechoslovakia, and the USSR to seek
credits for the national mining company and to investigate
Soviet overtures concerning a tin smelter for Bolivia.
The President has told the US Embassy the mission will
also investigate Soviet talk of a $60,000,000 credit for
Bolivia's national petroleum company. An upsurge of pro=
Communist agitation which was stimulated by the Soviet
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