CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN PORTUGUESE GUINEA: REBELS MAY SOON PROCLAIM INDEPENDENT STATE,

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• Document Creation Date: July 13, 2023
• Document Release Date: November 7, 2022
• Case Number: F-2018-01460
• Publication Date: September 1, 1973

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CONTENTS
LAOS: Continued deadlock over accord. (Page 1)
CHILE: Temporary respite in the political crisis.
2)
CHINA: Chou En-lai's political report to party con-
gress. (Page 3)
JAPAN - SOUTH VIETNAM: Aid to Saigon delayed.
(Page 6)
JAPAN - SOUTH KOREA: Kim kidnaping creating domestic
political difficulties for Tanaka government.
(Page 7)
PERU-US: President Velasco pressures US-owned company.
(Page 8)
USSR - WEST GERMANY: Soviets to provide uranium en-
richment services. (Page 10)
PORTUGUESE GUINEA: Rebels may soon proclaim independ-
ent state. (Page 11)
FOR THE RECORD: (Page 13)
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PORTUGUESE GUINEA: The anti-Portuguese rebels
may soon proclaim the establishment of an independent
government, possibly at the nonaligned conference
that opens next week in Algiers.
Leaders of the African Party for the Independ-
ence of Portuguese Guinea and the Cape Verde Islands
(PAIGC) announced earlier this year that such a dec-
laration would come before the end of 1973. In May,
following military successes against the Portuguese,
a high-level spokesman indicated the PAIGC would at-
tend the Algiers conference as the representative of
an independent state. PAIGC leader Aristides Pereira
further announced in mid-August that the necessary
preconditions for independence have been fulfilled.
-A declaration of independence would almost cer-
tainly receive the support not only of African states,
but of Communist countries, most nonaligned govern-
ments, and some European governments as well. The
PAIGC hopes that widespread recognition will put
pressure on the US and other Western countries to
follow suit. The PAIGC expects that once a declara-
tion is made, other countries will be willing to brand
the Portuguese as aggressors. thereby manina the
door to increased aid.
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