CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00975A010400070001-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 10
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 17, 2003
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: October 9, 1967
• Content Type: REPORT

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DIRECTORATE OF
INTELLIGENCE
Central Intelligence Bulletin
STATE review(s) completed.
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Central Intelligence Bulletin
CONTENTS
Vietnam: Situation report. (Page 1)
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Indonesia - Communist China: Djakarta consider-
ing complete diplomatic break. (Page 5)
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*South Vietnamo
President-elect Thieu's and Vice President-elect
Ky?s plans for organizing their new government are
beginning to take shape.
A confrontation between the government and the
militant Buddhists was avoided when the Buddhists
called off a scheduled protest march in Saigon yesterday.
The militants backed off in the face of government
threats to move forcefully to enforce its prohibition
of "illegal" demonstrations. A letter from President-
elect Thieu, which the mili:tants portrayed as "con-
ciliatory", provided the Buddhists with a convenient
face- saving device for postponing the march.
(continued)
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The situation was also quiet in Hue and Da Nang
over the weekend as Buddhist and student leaders mark
time in the face of the government's firm stand against
further demonstrations. In marked contrast to past
performances, the activities of the various student
and Buddhist elements in the two cities have suffered
thus far from poor coordination and lack of direction.
Action in the ground war was generally light and
scattered over the weekend, although sharp engagements
were fought in the Mekong Delta and in Binh Long
Province north of Saigon on 6 October.
In the delta fighting, nine US soldiers and 94
Viet Cong troops from the 263rd Main Force Battalion
were killed during an eight-hour battle some 40 miles
southwest of Saigon in Dinh Tuong Province. The
action took place in the same marshlands where South
Vietnamese Army troops fought the Viet Cong earlier
in the week and where US Army forces reported killing
nearly 200 enemy soldiers last month.
Enemy activity has stepped up throughout the
delta during the past two weeks. Several small govern-
ment outposts in Sa Dec, Vinh Long, Phong Dinh, and
Long An provinces have been overrun by Viet Cong
guerrillas since 1 October and other, outposts and-towns
have been mortared.
In Binh Long Province, US Army troops in Opera-
tion SHENANDOAH II killed 25 enemy soldiers in a
clash on 6 October. This operation has accounted for
over 70 enemy dead since 4 October, the heaviest
losses inflicted in the III Corps area since early August.
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Indonesia - Communist China: Djakarta appears
to be edging toward a final break in relations with Pe-
king.
Foreign Minister Malik, who cut short a trip
abroad after students sacked the Chinese Embassy on
1 October, has indicated to student leaders that the
government is reviewing its policy of avoiding a com-
plete break with China. He apparently persuaded the
students to withdraw a threat to attack the embassy
again if diplomatic ties were not cut almost immedi-
ately.
There is growing evidence that at least some
leaders in Indonesia's ruling military group-,egged
on the students in their attack on the embassy, or
at least were privy to their plans. It is not clear
whether General Suharto himself knew about the plans,
but in any event the situation now may have gone be-
yond the point where the Djakarta government sees
much value in continuing to withstand pressures for
a diplomatic break.
The US Embassy in Djakarta notes a growing
fatalism in the Indonesian Foreign Ministry concern-
ing the welfare of the four diplomats remaining in
Peking. The Indonesian Government, in view of its
inability to extricate them, may have decided that
the only option still open is to force their expulsion
through a formal break in relations.
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