CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00975A010600220001-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 25, 2002
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: December 27, 1967
• Content Type: REPORT

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Laos: Communists are keeping up military
pressure on government posts. (Page 4)
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Laos: Communist forces are keeping up their
pressure against government positions.
An enemy unit, estimated at about battalion strength,
raided the government base and airstrip at Muong
Phalane on 25 December, and destroyed most of the
camp's facilities, including the USAID and Air America
buildings. Although government reinforcements ap-
parently have moved into the area, they have not yet
reoccupied Muong Phalane.'
Preliminary reports suggest that the attack was
specifically aimed against the US presence at Muong
Phalane. Two American technicians who manned a
navigational station which assists US air operations
in southern Laos are missing. The station itself ap-
parently was not damaged.
The attack on Muong Phalane is the first signifi-
cant enemy action in this part of the panhandle in over
a year. It may be related to recent attacks farther
south in the Bolovens Plateau area. These operations
appear to be part of a new Communist campaign to
forestall stepped- up Allied efforts to interdict the in-
filtration corridor. ,'
In northern Laos, the Communists launched a mor-
tar attack on the government airstrip at Nam Bac
on 24 December. Continuing reports of a Communist
buildup, in the vicinity suggest that more ground as-
saults against Nam Bac's outlying defenses may be in
the offing. Government troops are being repositioned
in an effort to reduce their vulnerabilit
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