CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 14, 2002
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• Publication Date: March 18, 1961
• Content Type: REPORT

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CONTENTS
1. Situation in Laos. (Page t)
Communist China: Peiping seeks technicians
from Western. Europe. (Page nn)
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4. Afghanistan: USSR may provide aid for dam in
Helmand River valley. (Page ti)
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DAILY BRIEF
Laos:
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Kong Le - Pathet Lao forces are continuing their pres-
sure on. government forces both north of the Phou Khoun
junction and south of Xieng Khouang. In the former area,
forward. elements of government forces reportedly were un-
der fire from 105-mm. artillery on 17 March, possibly sig-
naling a new enemy push there. Laotian Army troops in the
vicinity of Ban Ta Viang were withdrawilig on 17 March toward
Tha Thom-2
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J A M M U
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PROJECTS
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- Road paving
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A, Dam
Salang Pass road
Metal working factory
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Oil discovery
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I Peiping is also appar-
ently planning to use specialists from France and Sweden in
the installation of equipment purchased from these countries
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Afghanistan- USSR: A visit by a Soviet team in early March
to soutRwest Afghanistan near the Iranian border suggests that
Afghanistan is continuing negotiations on a technical level for
Soviet assistance to build a new diversion dam in the lower
Helmand River valley. These negotiations have apparently 0 k
been under way since last spring. This project, estimated
at $10,000,000, would probably be included in the Second Five-
Year Plan which begins next September. Such an undertaking
would bring Soviet construction activity into the southwest
corner of the country for the first time. It could divert some
of the personnel and resources of Afghanistan's Helmand Valley
Authority now being used to develop the more promising upper
Helmand, where American assistance has been used for some
years to construct irrigation dams and canals.
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Communist China Seeking Western Technicians
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In addition, at least four French engineers are now in China
advising on. the, operation and maintenance of electric locomotives
which the Chinese purchased from a. French firm. The French
technicians are reportedly instructing large classes of trainees
in Paochi, where some of the locomotives are already in service
on the Paochi-Chengtu line.
Whatever the outcome of current Sino-Soviet talks on future
economic relations, the willingness of the Chinese to use West-
ern technicians, together with observed shifts in their trading
pattern, suggests that Peiping is trying .to ease the impact of the
withdrawal of Soviet technicians and is probably not eager to re-
turn to heavy dependence on Soviet equipment and technical aid.
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Afghans Seeking Soviet Aid for Dam Project
Afghanistan first accepted economic assistance from the
USSR in 1953, when the latter built the much-publicized grain
elevator and bakery in Kabul and began paving the streets of
the Afghan capital. In 1955 the Afghans accepted a $100,000,000
line of Soviet credit under which a number of transportation
and power projects are being built. Afghanistan has also re-
ceived about $100,000,000 worth of Soviet arms. Total Soviet
economic and military assistance extended to Kabul now amounts
to over $250,000,000. During 1960 an estimated 1,600 Soviet
technicians and advisory personnel worked on economic devel-
opment projects in Afghanistan.
Although Soviet economic assistance activity in Afghanistan
continued to expand in 1960 as more projects passed from the
planning to the construction stage, no new major projects have
been authorized since last spring. Afghan-Soviet agreements
on. new projects apparently await the completion of the draft of
the. Afghan Second Five-Year Plan. Kabul apparently expects
Moscow to provide several hundred million dollars worth of
assistance under the plan.
The new diversion.dam would be used for irrigation and
flood control. Since it would increase Afghanistan's ability to
hold back and utilize water when the Helmand River is low, Iran's
concern over lack of an agreement with Afghanistan on division
of the Helmand waters will increase when construction work be-
gins. Tehran probably would regard the new project as aimed
at forcing it to accept what it regards as an. unsatisfactory dis-
tribution of the waters.
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THE PRESIDENT
The Vice President
Executive Offices of the White House
The Special Assistant for National Security Affairs
The Scientific Adviser to the President
The Director of the Budget
The Director, Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization
The Director, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Chairman, Board of Consultants on Foreign Intelligence Activities
The Department of State
The Secretary of State
The Under Secretary of State
The Director, International Cooperation Administration
The Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
The Deputy Under Secretary of State for Administration
The Counselor and Chairman of the Policy Planning Council
The Director of Intelligence and Research
The Treasury Department
The Secretary of the Treasury
The Department of Defense
The Secretary of Defense
The Deputy Secretary of Defense
The Secretary of the Army
The Secretary of the Navy
The Secretary of the Air Force
The Assistant Secretary of Defense (International Security Affairs)
The Assistant to Secretary of Defense (Special Operations)
The Chairman, The Joint Chiefs of Staff
Chief of Naval Operations, United States Navy
Chief of Staff, United States Air Force
Chief of Staff, United States Army
Commandant, United States Marine Corps
U.S. Rep., Military Committee and Standing Group, NATO
Supreme Allied Commander, Europe
Commander in Chief, Pacific
The Director, The Joint Staff
The Director for Intelligence, The Joint Staff
The Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Department of Army
The Director of Naval Intelligence, Department of Navy
The Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence, Department of the Air Force
The Department of Justice
The Attorney General
The Federal Bureau of Investigation
The Director
The Atomic Energy Commission
The Chairman
The National Security Agency
The Director
The United States Information Agency
The Director
The National Indications Center
The Director
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