WEEKLY REPORT PREPARED EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE SENIOR INTERDEPARTMENTAL GROUP

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• Publication Date: December 5, 1966
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DIRECTORATE OF
INTELLIGENCE
Intelligence Report
Weekly Report
Prepared Exclusively for the
Senior Interdepartmental Group
Secret
5 December 1966
No. 1879/66
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2. Danmark ~ . . 2
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Sporadic disturbances are still breaking out
in Palestinian west Jordan, and King Husayn is
embroiled with Egypt in a controversy over Arab
defense policy toward Israel. He also faces a
campaign of terrorism and subversion from Syria
(see map).
The current of unrest remains strong in west
Jordan. Palestinian leaders are planning a civil
disobedience campaign to protest the King's refusal
to cooperate with the Cairo-based Palestine Libera-
tion Organization in strengthening Jordanian border
defenses.
Husayn's differences with Egypt over the role
the TJnited Arab Command should play in defending
Jordan will be aired again at the Arab Defense Coun-
cil meeting in Cairo on 7 December. The virulence
of the recriminations exchanged over this issue-via
the airwaves and the press indicates that no clear
reso:Lution of the dispute will be reached. Jordan
had hoped to go to the conference armed with a
stepped-up military aid package from the US with
which to counter Egyptian pressure fqr a larger
Egyptian role in Jordanian military affairs.
Syria is assuming an increasingly active role in
efforts to harass and subvert Jordan. The Palestinian
saboteurs who formerly infiltrated Israel are now
conducting operations aaainst Jordan from Syrian
rritor
the radica Baa is regime in a ascus has called
publicly for the formation of a "progressive front" to
overthrow Husayn by means of a "war of liberation."
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2. DENMARK
De:nmark's sharp turn to the left in the recent
national elections injects a strong element of un-
certainty into Danish political life and is likely
to afi:ect its role in NATO.
TYie Social Democratic Party's (SDP) setback in
the November elections means that Prime Minister
Krag will have to rely more heavily on the support
of thE~ extreme-leftist Socialist People's Party
(SPP). During the past two years Krag has managed
to stay in as head of a minority government with
the backing of the SPP on domestic issues and that
of the non-Socialist opposition on defense and for-
eign Y~olicy matters.
Krag has declared that he intends to continue
in office, but the SPP, with its recent election
gains, is likely to exact a price for its continued
support. The two parties do not differ markedly on
domestic policy, but they diverge sharply on foreign
policy. The SPP advocates withdrawal from NATO and
adoption of a neutral foreign policy.
Iri abortive cabinet talks between the two parties
shortly after the elections, the SPP demanded drastic
cuts in Denmark's already modest defense budget, a
sharp reduction in conscripts' length of service,
and t~ze prohibition of NATO exercises on Danish soil.
Krag': acceptance of these demands would have con-
stitui~ed a major step toward withdrawal from active
parti