CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 20, 2002
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: August 2, 1967
• Content Type: REPORT

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DIRECTORATE OF
INTELLIGENCE
Central Intelligence Bulletin
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Central Intelligence Bulletin
CONTENTS
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Indonesia: Suharto moves to allay civilian crit-
icism, Page 4)
Venezuela: Communist political tactics (Page 5)
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Indonesia: Suharto is seeking to allay civilian
criticism of the army's political role without in any way
giving up military predominance.
A presidential decision of 26 July dissolved the
Supreme Operations Command (KOTI), a holdover of
the Sukarno era through which the army had reinforced
its controls in foreign affairs and in various domestic
political and economic areas. Suharto has also dis-
solved a centrally directed agency holding authority
over provincial governments. The agency had been
largely staffed by the military. These functions will
be largely taken over by civilians.
On 27 July, Suharto announced approval of the for-
mation of a new Moslem political party. It will be com-
posed of members of the Moslem Masjumi party, banned
by Sukarno in 1960, and of groups once affiliated with it
or ideologically sympathetic to it. The new party will
provide both political and geographic balance. Drawing
its major strength from West Java and Sumatra, it will
act as a counterweight against the orthodox Moslem
Nahdatul Ulama and the secularist National Party, both
of which are based in Central and East Java, and will
provide another channel for civilian views.
Suharto's civilian advisers are greatly encouraged
by these developments, some of which are the direct
result of their suggestions. They see them particularly
as indicating a reduction in the influence of the acting
president's personal military staff, which on occasion
has appeared to undercut the cabinet itself.
These steps are a considerable gesture toward
redressing the civilian- military relationship. The
army's controls remain secure, however, since it
continues to hold the presidency, the cabinet chairman-
ship, a third of the cabinet portfolios, two thirds of
the governorships, half of the ambassadorships, and a
generous share of all subministerial and local offices.
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Venezuela: The Communist Party of Venezuela
is searching for some way to take part in the presi-
dential election next year.
the Communists, although pro-
hibited from engaging in political activity, are engaged
in a series of talks with several leftist groups. Their
objective is to set up a popular front through which
they could then work. The Communist Party's decision
to return to political action is one of the major causes
of the split with the faction which favors guerrilla ac-
tion in line with the doctrines of the Latin American
Solidarity Organization now meeting in Havana.
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