POTENTIAL CRISIS AREAS

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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 24, 1998
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: June 24, 1974
• Content Type: MEMO

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SUBJECT Potential Crisis Areas
1. Listed below are a number of so-called "potential
crisis areas:. They are listed by geographic area for con-
venience. Would you please have your analysts check over this
list and make appropriate additions or deletions. I would
appreciate any additional comments. Send any responses to
me in room 3F29. I would appreciate having these responses
by 15 July when I return from two weeks leave.
ASIA
Area
Sino-Soviet Border
Korean Peninsula
South China Sea
(Paracels, Spratleys, exploitation
of marine resources and use of sea
lanes through the area)
Yellow Sea (exploitation of marine
resources)
Sino-India Border
'...Indo-Pakistani Border
Taiwan Straits
?T-ndia Ocean
Northern Islands Issue
Sino-Burma
Sino-Lao-Thai
Countries Involved
USSR, PRC
North and South Korea,
US, China, USSR
PRC, ROC, Philipines,
S. Vietnam, Japan, US,
USSR, Indonesia.
China, North and South
Korea.
China, India, possibly
Pakistan
'India., .Pakistan (possi bl?
China, USSR and even LT;
PRC, ROC, US
India, USSR, Iran,iUS
USSR, Japan
PRC, Burma
.PRC, Laos, Thailand
Internal Insurgencies
Thailand, Malaysia,
Philiptines.
Cambodia Cambodia Vietnams
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Vietnam am IN M North & South Vietnam,US
PRC, USSR
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MIDDLE EAST
Arab-Israeli
Greece-Turkey
(includes Cyprus)
Iraq-Iran-(Kurdish Problem)
Pakistan-Afghan
Oil. Producing Area
Rumania
Yugoslavia (includes possible
Tito succession problem and
confrontation with Italy over
bong standing dispute over
Trieste.
Spain-Portugal
Ireland
LATIN AMERICA
Countries, Involved
Israel, Egypt, Syria, USSR,
Lebanon, Jordan, Saudi Arabic;
Greece-Turkey
Iraq-Iran, USSR
Pakistan) Afghanistan, USSR,
India, PRC
OPEC countries
USSR, Rumania
.Yugoslavia, Italy, USSR
Spain-Portugal
Ireland, UK
Peru, Chile, Possibly Bolivia
Cuba
Cuba
Panama
. Panama
Argentina
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AFRICA
Area
Ethiopia-Somali'
Angola-Mozambique
Countries Involved
Ethiopia-Somali
Angola, Mozambique, Portuga:
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