CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Publication Date: June 4, 1969
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No. 0133/69
4 June 1969
Central Intelligence Bulletin
CONTENTS
Vietnam: Situation report. (Page 1)
Latin America: Student and extremist groups are
stepping up plans to demonstrate against the Rocke-
feller mission. (Page 2)
The Netherlands: Opposition to military expenditures
is threatening Dutch defense plans. (Page 3)
Yugoslavia - East German : Relations have taken
another turn for the worse. (Page 4)
West Germany - Cambodia: Relations (Page 5)
Argentina: Labor leader's arrest (Page 5)
Brazil: Prison escape (Page 6)
Haiti: Exile invasion plans (Page 6)
Greece: Military officer arrests (Page 7)
Turkey: Student protests (Page 7)
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C Vietnam: Intelligence sources continue to in-
dicate a high state of enemy combat readiness in
several parts of the country.
The current deployments of main force enemy
units do not point to impending ground attacks
against the major cities, but another outbreak of
widespread shellings and ground probes similar to
those on 12-13 May could come with little additional
warning. Enemy battle preparations appear most ad-
vanced in the Tay Ninh - Binh Long sector northwest
of Saigon and in Quang Ngai Province in southern I
Corps.
On 2-3 June allied forces on sweep operations
in the provinces around Saigon killed some 75 Commu-
nists in aseries of actions. US and South Vietnam-
ese losses were seven killed and 74 wounded. Else-
where in the country militar activity remained at
a low level. (Map) ,
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Latin America: Student and extremist groups
are stepping up their_ plans to demonstrate against
the Rockefeller mission, during future visits.
In Uruguay, where the party is scheduled to
arrive on 20 June, the Communist Party plans to or-
ganize large-scale demonstrations against the visit.
Violence is not included in these plans, but one
leading party member has expressed the belief that
radical extremists outside the party "are planning
something more significant and spectacular."
Students in Chile demonstrated yesterday out-
side the US Consulate in Santiago against the Gov-
ernor's visit and the government's refusal to na-
tionalize the US-owned Anaconda copper company. At
least seven students were injured. Various Commu-
nist, Socialist, and extremist groups in Chile are
also organizing demonstrations against the mission,
which is currently scheduled to arrive there on 27
June. Although the organizers do not want to spark
violence, they recognize that the demonstrations
could get out of control. The Chilean press has
unanimously expressed its opposition to the visit
as have some high-ranking government and political
officials. One influential newspaper has editorial-
ized that the economic document approved by all
Latin American governments at a recent ministerial
meeting and soon to be presented to President Nixon
obviates the necessity of further trips by the
Rockefeller mission.
The Communist-led People's Progressive Party
of Guyana has decided to hold a series of demonstra-
tions during the Governor's scheduled visit on 4
July.
The disorders in Colombia, Ecuador, and Bolivia,
plus Venezuela's request that the visit be postponed..
have probably prompted other governments to reassess
their receptivity to the mission at this time.
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The Netherlands: Growing opposition to mili-
tary expenditures is threatening Dutch defense
plans.
After the invasion of Czechoslovakia last Au-
gust, the Dutch Government pushed through an extra
$62.5 million in defense appropriations to be spent
over the 1969-71 period. Already, however, over
$8 million of the $37.5 million programmed for 1969
has been postponed until 1970-71. Unless the gov-
ernment appropriates funds above those already pro-
grammed for 1970-71, a reduction in the strength of
Dutch forces seems inevitable.
In an effort to reduce defense spending, the
Netherlands has all but abandoned any part in the
European multirole combat aircraft. Military plan-
ners currently are searching for a substitute which
is less expensive, possibly the Swedish Vi en or
the French swing-wing Mirage.
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Yugoslavia - East Germany: Relations between
the two have taken another turn for the worse.
According to Belgrade's Borba, the East Germans
have refused an official request by the Yugoslav Em-
bassy in Berlin that the East German press publish
Yugoslavia's views on the Yugoslav-Bulgarian dispute
over Macedonia. East German authorities have pub-
licized only Sofia's attitudes.
Belgrade's gradual, rapprochement with Bonn and
the invasion of Czechoslovakia produced a heavy
strain on Yugoslav - East German relations in the
past year which led to a series of bitter polemical
exchanges. More recently, Moscow's relative re-
straint toward Yugoslavia in the interest of "so-
cialist solidarity" before the international Commu-
nist conference may have tended to hold Yugoslav -
East German differences in. check. Following the
conference, however, the East German camp
against Yugoslavia may resume.
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West Germany - Cambodia: The top leadership
of Bonn's governing parties has recommended that,
in retaliation for Cambodia's recognition of East
Germany, the West German Embassy in Phnom Penh be
closed and aid restricted to that currently com-
mitted. The Cambodian ambassador accredited to
Bonn will be permitted to function, if Phnom Penh
so chooses. The recommendation, which awaits cab-
inet approval, climaxes days of acrimonious debate
between Bonn's coalition partners. The result ap-
pears to correspond more closely to the desires of
Chancellor Kiesinger, who favored a complete break
in relations, than to those of Foreign Minister
Brandt, who wanted Bonn to maintain a more flexible
position. Nevertheless, by stopping short of a com-
plete rupture, it provides a face-saving compromise
that the Social Democratic foreign minister has been
willing to accept.
Argentina: Police in Buenos Aires have arrested
labor leader Raimundo Ongaro shortly after he called
for another 24-hour general strike. As head of the
militantly antigovernment bloc of unions in the Gen-
eral Labor Confederation, Ongaro was one of the main
organizers of the effective illegal general strike
on 30 May. On 2 June he announced that a date would
soon be set for a new strike and a national day of
mourning "for the victims of the dictatorship."
The arrest of Ongaro--and the likelihood that he
will be tried by a military court--will almost cer-
tainly heighten the tension between labor and the
Ongania government.
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Brazil: Security authorities are greatly con-
cerned over the escape last week of nine prisoners,
six of whom are ex-military men sentenced for their
subversive activities during the Goulart administra-
tion. The escape was carefully engineered and had
outside assistance--facts which especially worry the
military and could generate new pressure for a crack-
down on "subversives." The escapees are professional
organizers and revolutionaries whose abilities will
presumably be put: to use by urban terrorist groups.
They are capable of launching a series of terrorist
acts, and they could represent a thrpat to the se-
curity of the Rockefeller mission.
Haiti: A Haitian exile force, presumably re-
acting to recent reports of President Duvalier's
illness and continuing d.isabilit is reportedly
planning an invasion soon.
exile leader Col. Rene Leon has reached
the Bahamian island of South Caicos and plans to
land in Haiti with a force in the next day or two.
Leon, who has a reputation as a serious and com-
petent leader, probably hopes to take advantage
of the weaker control of the President as well as
the rivalries among the contenders for future power.
According to the most recent information, Duvalier
is recovering and may resume his normal schedule
in about a month. 1 -1
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Greece: The government is apparently moving
to quash all potential opposition threats. An of-
ficial spokesman has announced that ten retired
military officers were arrested on 28 May and would
be deported to various Greek islands; US observers
believe even more officers may have been rounded
up at that time. All the officers arrested had
been retired or dismissed since the coup of April
1967, and some are known to have personal ties with
King Constantine. Police officials reportedly be-
lieve the arrests were ordered on the suspicion the
officers might be connected with recent bombings
attributed to a self-styled royalist underground
organization. Meanwhile, no further information
has been developed on the coup plot reported last
week allegedly involving active military officers.
Turkey: Student protests have again occurred
at two major universities after nearly two months
of calm. The demonstrations, which led to clashes
between rightist and leftist student groups, were
primarily in support of university administrators
and professors who resigned recently over parlia-
ment's failure to pass university reform legisla-
tion. Parliament has adjourned until after the
national elections in October, thus precluding
any early consideration of the legislation, which
almost certainly will remain an issue during the
election campaign.
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